Cheryl D. Edwards, an African American artist was born in 1954 in Miami Beach, Florida.
She began her studies in art during 1988 in New York City in a class at the Art Student League taught by Ernest Crichlow. She has been living in Washington, D.C. for the past 31 years.
She has exhibited in many shows in Washington, D.C., New York, Virginia, Maryland, Miami, Texas, Pennsylvania, Rotterdam, Costa Rica Germany, Monaco, Denmark and Hong Kong. Her medium is oil, ink, printmaking, mixed media, and acrylics. Please visit
Edwards is a 2024 (2023,2022,2021and 2015) DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Awardee.
She is also the winner of the Black Writers Fellowship: Reporter awarded by Hand Papermaking, Inc., Mendota, MN, and an awardee in the Art Cart: Saving the Legacy project selected by the Research Center for Arts and Culture, New York, NY. The Art Cart Project resulted in the archival of her artwork in the Academic Commons Columbia University archives.
Edwards is a teaching artist at the Kreeger Museum located in Washington, D.C.
Her most recent project as an artist curator is the exhibit, Before the Americas
Edwards was formerly a Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of The David C. Driskell Center (2015-2023-University of Maryland); Board member of The Studio Visit; and currently a member of the Education Committee of the McClean Project for the Arts ,an Advisor to the Washington Sculptors Group in Washington, D.C., board member of the Washington Printmaker Club, board member of the George Mason University Art Board.