As a former commercial artist, Cheryl served as art director of Liberty Travel and GOGO Tours for three years.  Subsequently as a freelance graphic designer, she produced promotional materials, product and package designs for a large and diverse clientele including: Empire National, Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric, Polyfol Corporation, Reiss Games, The Riverview, Sam Flax, and Tech Molders. 

Cheryl is also New York State certified art teacher (K - 12) and the first art teacher ever to win the Kufeld Award for Excellence in Teaching.  She has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses as an adjunct professor at Hofstra University.

The artist’s fine art is in many private and public collections including: Arthur’s Landing, Weehawken, NJ; Municipal Building, Aurora, CO; City Hall, Balatonfured, Hungary; Marine Biological Labs, Woods Hole, MA, Place Machine, Inc., (Thyssen Industries, Germany) Troy, MI; Satco, Inc., Brentwood, NY; Teleflex International; University of Georgia, School of Forestry, Athens, GA; University of Maine, Orono, ME; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.          

From March to May of this year the Great Neck Art Center presented Percolations, a two-person exhibit that showcased the artist’s recent work.  Cheryl has had fourteen one-woman shows including Chemistry on Copper at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, Ct., Interior Landscapes at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC and Chromachines at Lawrence Institute of Technology in Southfield, MI. She has participated in over a hundred juried art shows winning prizes and grants.  The artist has also won and completed commissions for corporate and governmental clients.