Professional Experience

1996 - Present
Housepainter operating as Cheryl Levin Painting
Working as interior housepainter offering straight and decorative painting for private residences and commercial spaces. Finishes include hand painted stencil patterns, marbleizing, wood graining and glazing. Provide work samples, estimates and manage crews. List of services includes all phases of interior painting and limited scope exterior work, prep, and painting.

1998 - 2012
Co-Owner, Phillips Metal Studios
Produce functional, and decorative metal projects, created for commissions (public and private), exhibitions, and/or shows. Provide original design concepts and sketches, paint and protective finishes, and associated artistic elements (e.g. murals, mosaics, faux finishing). Also facilitate and implement programmatic, community-based and educational collaborations and partnerships. Assist in managing contracts, identifying suppliers, client interface, maintenance of project budgets and timelines, and proposal development. Facilitate workshops, apprenticeships and demonstrations.

1986 - 1996
Co-Owner & Principle Painter, Faux-Fax
A full service painting company specializing in decorative surfaces such as woodgrain, marbleizing, stenciling, murals and specialty glazing for private and commercial applications. Provide samples and color consultation, estimates, manage contracts & supervise jobs. Clients include Temple University, The Hillier Group, DuPont, Merck & Bristol-Myers Squibb.

1986 - 1988
Principle Painter, Urban Painting & Design
Foreman & supervisor, Philadelphia, PA

1984 - 1986
Set Painter, Sid Levy Displays
Painting of Christmas display and installation in shopping malls, Philadelphia, PA

Community Collaborations, Outreach, and Teaching

2016
And Beneath Such Quiet: The Elegy in the Modern World
Panel Participant, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Art as Voice Empowerment Program
Bottle Tree Project, Elon University, Elon, NC
A joint project sponsored by Elon University Art Department and The Western Alamance Middle School. Facilitator of workshop, which involved children painting poems and writings on glass bottles as part of art installation of the university’s campus.
Collaboration with Robert Phillips.

Design Philadelphia
Twist Gallery, Sponsored by The Design Center of Philadelphia
Lecture

2006 - 2007
New Kensington Community Development Corporation Apprentice Program
Facilitator of program for Phillips Metal. Work with apprentice on proper preparation of painting metal work.

2004 - 2006
Metamorphosis – Girard Crossing Sculpture & Mosaic Project
Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, City of Philadelphia Department of Recreation
Nine mosaic panels were designed, fabricated and installed with teens over a course of two summers at Phillips Metal Studio and The Mural Art Program Building.

2001 - 2003
Faux Finishing
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Continuing Education
Responsibilities include course curriculum and teaching of decorative glazing & marbleizing for walls and furniture.

2000
Faux Finishing
Main Line Art Center, Wynnewood, PA
Responsibilities include course curriculum and teaching of decorative glazing & marbleizing for walls and furniture.

1998
After-School Art Program
Jewish Community Center, Wynnewood, PA
An after-school program to facilitate non-stressful atmosphere for experimentation with clay and paint.

1994 - 1996
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Millan
Bi-monthly home projects for two children during which time they attended 1st thru 3rd grades. Clay, cardboard constructions, drawings and painting.

1993
The Catapult Marionette Theater, Envy of the Soul, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Theatrical production. Set designer, puppeteer, and narrator.

1990
High Wire Gallery, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Elementary Arts Education Program
A co-operative gallery that obtained grants as an organization to work on a project titled “Rap Meets Sculpture” involving students from The Sarah Lawrence Elementary School, Philadelphia, PA.

Grants

2012
Adolph & Ester Gottlieb Foundation Arts Grant, New York, Emergency Grant

Artist Fellowship Inc., New York, Emergency Grant

Public Art Collaborative Commissions/Phillips Metal

2010
Alternate – SEPTA PerCent for Art Competition, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Finalist, Public Art Installation at the Corner of 18th and Columbia, Washington Commission on Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

Alternate – SEPTA PerCent for Art Competition, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Alternate – SEPTA PerCent for Art Competition, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Alternate – SEPTA PerCent for Art Competition, Philadelphia, PA

2004 - 2006
Metamorphosis - Girard Avenue Crossing Sculpture Project
A series of metal sculptures and community mosaics. Sponsored by The City of Philadelphia Department of Recreation – Mural Arts Program, Fairmount Park and The Philadelphia Art Commission. Funded by a grants from The William Penn Foundation, SEPTA – The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, The Philadelphia Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and The Girard Street Coalition, Philadelphia, PA "African Legend".

2005
African Legend - Widner Branch Library, City of Philadelphia Percent For Arts Program
Adjudicated through the The Philadelphia Arts Commission and the Philadelphia FreeLibrary, Philadelphia, PA.

Private/Public Collections

Partial List
John Witherspoon, Actor Los Angeles,CA
Oliver Lawton, Model, London, England
Jill Moniz, Curator, Los Angeles , CA
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Tuttleman, Merion, PA
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph & Carole Shanis, Philadelphia, PA
Anna Bora, Wayne, PA
Millan Enterprises, Gladwynne, PA
The Handwork Studio, Narbeth, PA
Dr. Mark Gloger, Potomac, MD
Dr. Robert M. Weinrieb, Narbeth, PA
Michael Daley, Philadelphia, PA
REM Farms, Livingston Manor, NY
Marquerite Rodgers LTD,Philadelphia, PA
Royal Bank, Gladwyne, PA
Striped Bass Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA
Francine Kelly, Oak Bluffs, MA
Scott Brown, Indianapolis, IN
Carole Darst, Indianapolis, IN
Janis Smith Gomez, South Orange, NJ
Stevi Stoesz Kersh, Indianapolis, IN
Dr. Bret Heerema, Las Vegas, NV