Dawnice Kerchaert
EducationCollege for Creative Studies, College for Art and Design, BFA, Detroit, MI.Eastern Michigan University, BA, Art History, Classical Studies, Ypsilanti, MI
Selected Exhibitions & Residencies 2026 Rooted In Nature, Kokomo Art Gallery, Indiana University, Kokomo Indiana Hotter 'N Hell 2026, Orville Hanchey Gallery Northwestern State University Department of Fine and Graphic Arts, Natchitoches Louisiana Garage Mahal, Royal Oak, Michigan
2025Hot Dam!, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit Michigan
Natural Elements, Sault Area Art Center, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
The 2025 National Juried Exhibition-Gallery 130, The University of Mississippi, Mississippi
Artlink Contemporary Gallery, In the Wild: Art About Nature, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2024Michigan Legacy Art Park, Specimens: Fall Leaves, installed October 2024
Nest: A Reflection of Safe Places, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
Women’s Work, Art Source Ohio, New Bremen, Ohio
By Hand, Honorable Mention, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor, Michigan
2023Sault Area Art Center, Point Iroquois Artist-in-Residence, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
Michigan Legacy Art Park, Artist-in-Residence, Thompsonville, Michigan
Native Ground, One Person Exhibition, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit Michigan
Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey
Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, Michigan
2022Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum, Here and Now, Hamilton Ohio
Creative York, One Earth, York, Pennsylvania
Indianapolis Art Center, Art From the Heartland, Indianapolis, Indiana
Vestige Concept Gallery, On Neutral Ground, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Taubman Center Valade Family Gallery, 2022 CCS Alumni Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
Berkley Arts Council, 12th Annual Art & Earth Juried Exhibit, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Scarab Club, Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Detroit, Michigan
Emporium Center, Arts & Culture Alliance's National Juried Exhibition 2022, Knoxville Tennessee
2021Harper College, 43rd National Juried Exhibition, Palatine, Illinois
Detroit Artists Market, All Media Exhibition, Detroit Michigan
Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum, 2021 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Michigan
Art Fluent, Of The Earth, art-fluent.com online exhibition, Vermont
Berkley Arts Council, 11th Annual Art & Earth Exhibit, Martinsburg,West Virginia
Scarab Club, Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, 55th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas
2020View Gallery, Textures and Layers: A Walk in the Woods, Old Forge, New York
D'Art Center, Tiny But Mighty, Norfolk, VA
2019 Pam Miller Downtown Gallery, LexEx, Lexington, Kentucky
Art On 30th, In Gold We Trust, Best in Show, San Diego, California
Emporium Center, No Bigger Than a Breadbox, Knoxville, Tennessee
2017Berkeley Arts Council, Seventh Annual Art and Earth Exhibit, Honorable Mention, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Blue Heron Nature Preserve, TreeSpeak - The Art of Nature, installation, Atlanta, Georgia
Oakland Community College Student & Faculty Exhibition, Holding House Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Scarab Club, Blooms, Bugs, and Beasts, Detroit, Michigan
2016Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, 3rd Place Recipient, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan
Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History, 100 Sculptors – 100 Sculptures, Jackson, Michigan
View Gallery, Branches, Brambles, and Roots, an exhibition about trees, Old Forge, New York
Harper College, Small Works, Palatine, Illinois
333 Midland Invitational, BIG SCULPTURE @ THE FACTORY, Highland Park, Michigan
2015Whitdel Arts Center, Members Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2014St. Louis Art Guild, Constructed Visions, St. Louis, Missouri
2013Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Art Endures: 30 Years and Counting, Honorable Mention, Rochester, Michigan
Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance, Public Art, Fall In Art and Sol, Michigan
2012University of Michigan-Dearborn, Open Competition, Michigan
Whitdel Arts, Engage: Detroit Interactive Art Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
College for Creative Studies, Alumni Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
2010Detroit Artists Market, 2010 All Media Show, Detroit, Michigan
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Regional Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Flint, Michigan
Oakland Community College, From Our Perspectives, Farmington, Michigan
Edward Hopper House, 17th Annual Small Matters of Great Importance, Nyack, New York
Publications & CatalogsGallerium Exhibitions and The Book Arts Publication,2021Harper College 73rd Annual National Art Exhibition, 202155th Annual National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, TexasArt On 30th, In Gold We Trust, Best in Show, San Diego, CA 2020One Hundred Sculptors – One Hundred Sculptures, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI 2016-2017 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, 2016 The Detroit News, Paint Creek Center for the Arts celebrates 30 years of spotlighting laudable art and local artists, by Michael H. Hodges, 2013A Question Of Faith, University of Northern Iowa, 2001The Schoharie County Arts Council 2000 National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council, 2000.UN Defining Sculpture, Detroit Artists Market, 1998.The Detroit News, Artists Make Time To Show Original Artwork, by Rhonda Bates-Budd, May 1997.Myth America Exhibition catalog, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI. 1997. Art In America Magazine, Art In Public Places, 1994.
EducationCollege for Creative Studies, College for Art and Design, BFA, Detroit, MI.Eastern Michigan University, BA, Art History, Classical Studies, Ypsilanti, MI
Selected Exhibitions & Residencies 2026 Rooted In Nature, Kokomo Art Gallery, Indiana University, Kokomo Indiana Hotter 'N Hell 2026, Orville Hanchey Gallery Northwestern State University Department of Fine and Graphic Arts, Natchitoches Louisiana Garage Mahal, Royal Oak, Michigan
2025Hot Dam!, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit Michigan
Natural Elements, Sault Area Art Center, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
The 2025 National Juried Exhibition-Gallery 130, The University of Mississippi, Mississippi
Artlink Contemporary Gallery, In the Wild: Art About Nature, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2024Michigan Legacy Art Park, Specimens: Fall Leaves, installed October 2024
Nest: A Reflection of Safe Places, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
Women’s Work, Art Source Ohio, New Bremen, Ohio
By Hand, Honorable Mention, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor, Michigan
2023Sault Area Art Center, Point Iroquois Artist-in-Residence, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
Michigan Legacy Art Park, Artist-in-Residence, Thompsonville, Michigan
Native Ground, One Person Exhibition, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit Michigan
Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey
Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, Michigan
2022Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum, Here and Now, Hamilton Ohio
Creative York, One Earth, York, Pennsylvania
Indianapolis Art Center, Art From the Heartland, Indianapolis, Indiana
Vestige Concept Gallery, On Neutral Ground, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Taubman Center Valade Family Gallery, 2022 CCS Alumni Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
Berkley Arts Council, 12th Annual Art & Earth Juried Exhibit, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Scarab Club, Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibit, Detroit, Michigan
Emporium Center, Arts & Culture Alliance's National Juried Exhibition 2022, Knoxville Tennessee
2021Harper College, 43rd National Juried Exhibition, Palatine, Illinois
Detroit Artists Market, All Media Exhibition, Detroit Michigan
Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum, 2021 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Michigan
Art Fluent, Of The Earth, art-fluent.com online exhibition, Vermont
Berkley Arts Council, 11th Annual Art & Earth Exhibit, Martinsburg,West Virginia
Scarab Club, Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, 55th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas
2020View Gallery, Textures and Layers: A Walk in the Woods, Old Forge, New York
D'Art Center, Tiny But Mighty, Norfolk, VA
2019 Pam Miller Downtown Gallery, LexEx, Lexington, Kentucky
Art On 30th, In Gold We Trust, Best in Show, San Diego, California
Emporium Center, No Bigger Than a Breadbox, Knoxville, Tennessee
2017Berkeley Arts Council, Seventh Annual Art and Earth Exhibit, Honorable Mention, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Blue Heron Nature Preserve, TreeSpeak - The Art of Nature, installation, Atlanta, Georgia
Oakland Community College Student & Faculty Exhibition, Holding House Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Scarab Club, Blooms, Bugs, and Beasts, Detroit, Michigan
2016Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, 3rd Place Recipient, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan
Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History, 100 Sculptors – 100 Sculptures, Jackson, Michigan
View Gallery, Branches, Brambles, and Roots, an exhibition about trees, Old Forge, New York
Harper College, Small Works, Palatine, Illinois
333 Midland Invitational, BIG SCULPTURE @ THE FACTORY, Highland Park, Michigan
2015Whitdel Arts Center, Members Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2014St. Louis Art Guild, Constructed Visions, St. Louis, Missouri
2013Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Art Endures: 30 Years and Counting, Honorable Mention, Rochester, Michigan
Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance, Public Art, Fall In Art and Sol, Michigan
2012University of Michigan-Dearborn, Open Competition, Michigan
Whitdel Arts, Engage: Detroit Interactive Art Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
College for Creative Studies, Alumni Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan
2010Detroit Artists Market, 2010 All Media Show, Detroit, Michigan
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Regional Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Flint, Michigan
Oakland Community College, From Our Perspectives, Farmington, Michigan
Edward Hopper House, 17th Annual Small Matters of Great Importance, Nyack, New York
Publications & CatalogsGallerium Exhibitions and The Book Arts Publication,2021Harper College 73rd Annual National Art Exhibition, 202155th Annual National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, TexasArt On 30th, In Gold We Trust, Best in Show, San Diego, CA 2020One Hundred Sculptors – One Hundred Sculptures, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI 2016-2017 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, 2016 The Detroit News, Paint Creek Center for the Arts celebrates 30 years of spotlighting laudable art and local artists, by Michael H. Hodges, 2013A Question Of Faith, University of Northern Iowa, 2001The Schoharie County Arts Council 2000 National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council, 2000.UN Defining Sculpture, Detroit Artists Market, 1998.The Detroit News, Artists Make Time To Show Original Artwork, by Rhonda Bates-Budd, May 1997.Myth America Exhibition catalog, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI. 1997. Art In America Magazine, Art In Public Places, 1994.