Deidre Scherer

Pioneering in the medium of thread-on-fabric, artist Deidre Scherer has exhibited her work since 1979, including solo shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York City. She is featured in the documentary “Holding Our Own”, which screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Scherer received the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s 2008 Humanities Award; the Rhode Island School of Design’s 2010 Alumni Association Award for Artistic Achievement; and a fine arts fellowship from the Open Society Institute.

Her work appears on the cover of the best selling “When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple” and throughout the poetry anthology “Threads of Experience”. She wrote about her art’s evolution in “Deidre Scherer: Work in Fabric and Thread”. Most recently she collaborated on “Everyday Mermaid” with poet Christina Isobel. Website: dscherer.com