Maker of Handwovens anD Wearables

Cheryl Mincone is a fiber artist whose work focuses on nautical knot tying and hand-weaving. She studied environmental design at Syracuse University (undergraduate), interior architecture at the Boston Architectural College (graduate) and Fiber Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (graduate certificate). 

Mincone has exhibited regionally at the Fuller Craft Museum and Hera Gallery. Her pieces have been featured in print publications by Interweave Press, Artscope Magazine and Shuttle, Spin and Dyepot. She is Vice President of the Weavers Guild of Rhode Island and Board Trustee of the New England Weavers Seminar. 

Cheryl is currently embracing her empty nesting life in Barrington RI, where she shares her home with husband, two dogs and is hoping to find more space for a larger loom.

 My work combines textiles and storytelling with topics relating to womanhood and rooted to a sense of place. Using threads as material for color, texture, and shape, has helped me convey the nuances of the mature female perspective and capture the environment that surrounds us. A range of fiber interlacement techniques; weaving, knot tying, and surface embellishment, has become my chosen language to express a perspective. The result includes pictorial pieces with images symbolic of womanhood, to fiber jewelry that represents a life by the ocean. I hope all my work communicates a point of view that others can relate to. I aim to preserve and elevate our feminine voices through textile traditions and invite others to see part of their own story reflected in thread, texture and form.