Schroeder Cherry
Museum Curator at JELMA
schroeder.cherry@morgan.edu
Dr. Schroeder Cherry has worked in seven U.S. museums, including The Art Institute of Chicago; Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum; Studio Museum in Harlem; J. Paul Getty Museum; The Baltimore Museum of Art; and Maryland Historical Society. He has held senior grant maker positions at Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, first as Deputy Director of Museums, and later Counselor to the Director. Cherry earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and puppetry from The University of Michigan; a master’s degree in museum education from The George Washington University; and a doctorate in museum education from Columbia University. As an artist and puppeteer, Cherry has exhibited and performed in museums and other cultural organizations across the U.S. He taught graduate museum studies at Morgan State University prior to his 2021 appointment as Curator of the James E Lewis Museum of Art.