About The Artist

Cheryl Barton-Petrie I was born in Los Angeles and received my formal art training in Pasadena and in the Aegean Islands. I have a graduate degree from San Francisco State University. I have worked in many media including sculpture, printmaking, and painting. Currently I teach aesthetics and art history at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and have a small art school and business. My drawings and sculptures are in private collections in Greece, Zimbabwe, and the U.S. and have been shown in some of these countries. I've also curated art exhibitions at the Norton Simon Museum, Laguna Beach Museum, and the Southwest Museum, trained docents at the Oakland Museum of California and SF MOMA, and am published as an art critic, poet, and features correspondent. My travels and living experiences abroad include working for aid organizations in Africa and teaching and writing in developing countries throughout the world. These latter experiences especially, have added dimensions to my art. I work in response to the imbalance I feel in the world, especially of late. In my art, I try to offer a sense of peace, yet also awareness; to capture the essence of nostalgia, but also hope.