MY PRACTICE
My practice focuses on media and art production, communications, artistic research, and decolonial studies. I use the medium of communications via gestures or performance, conversations, media, web design or development, independent publishing, print, and text.
I enjoy approaching art as an amateur and harnessing play and experimentation as methodologies for inquiry into the themes of rebellion, identity, mental health, social practice, and critical reflection.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
In speaking or teaching opportunities I have harnessed interactive, discussion based learning as a strategy for participatory inquiry. This is in line with my practice of engaging in dialogic, open conversations.
2009
• Eagle Arts Academy: Video editing and production teacher for high school students.
2010 • Rennie Collection: Administrative assistant- learned installation, curation, artist liaising, programming, and daily operations.
2012
• YMCA: Curriculum builder for a YMCA summer internship program, the international Youth Peace Network, which had a strong focus on indigenous knowledge.
I individually catered to the chosen learning objectives of 14 young adults who took these socially applicable concepts and skills back and applied them in their home YMCA’s.
2010-2013
• “Going On” + Node Modality Project sponsored by Ryerson University from 2010 until 2012, afterwards the project continued on independently and was completed late 2013. The presentation, and corresponding paper, was presented at York University Libraries interPlay symposium alongside the keynote speaker Iain& Baxter. Later iterations were presented at TedX Women Distillery District, Invented Here. The Node Modality Project’s corresponding research paper “Going On” is published on Iain& Baxter’s online raisonne.
The discussion is rooted within participation drawn from a case study of students from Ryerson University and their written critical reflections of leadership in response to questions I posed. “Going On: Implications for the Node Modality Network” illustrates how information technologies transform students conception and interaction within the academic social environment via online platforms. Enriching the discussion with a diversity of perspectives and voices.
Participatory interactive engagement has important pedagogical implications as the demand shifts in viewer behaviour back and forth between reception and participation. The benefits of using interactive digital technology resides in its potential to be a means of promoting critical reflection. Having observed Susan Buck-Morss’ interpretation of Walter Benjamin’s 1936 essay, I attempt to present and harness interactivity
as a strategy to restore the instinctual power of bodily sense as an effective catalysts for learning through innovative new mediums.
2021-2023 • Self Employed business in Jewelry Design, Online Business and Independent Local Business (cherie crocker 2021-Present), Vancouver, BC
2015-Present
• Self Employed business in Graphic Design, Online Publishing and Independent Web Development Publishing (Crocker Designs 2015-Present), Vancouver, BC
EDUCATION
2003-2005
• University of Calgary, Communications and Culture: Canadian Studies 2.5 yrs. completed
2006-2012
• Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts: General Fine Arts
2015
• Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Web Development Certification
2018
• Vancouver Community College, Graphic Design Certification
EXHIBITIONS & CONVERSATIONS
2009
• Originate, Concourse Gallery, curated by Amiel Logan and Jeneen Frei Ngootli, Vancouver, BC
• Retrospectacles, Gropp’s Gallery, curated by Jennifer Chernecki, Vancouver, BC
• On the Block of Cordova and Main, fundraising video for a Women’s Stabilization Centre at the Salvation Army Harbour Light, Vancouver, BC
2010
• ChargeUp, Gallery 1612, curated by Helgi Kristinsson, Vancouver, BC
• Fabrications, Concourse Gallery, curated by Jennifer Norquist, Vancouver, BC
• Embedded, Woo Gallery, curated by Kalli Niedoba, Vancouver, BC
• Winter Salon, Vancouver School of Art, curated by Nicole Ondre, Vancouver, BC
• On the Edge of Chaos symposium, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, paper selected by Landon Mackenzie, Vancouver, BC
2012
• “Going On” paper selected by Iain& Baxter’s OC OOnt OBC FRSC, Independent Publishing on Artist’s Web Raisonne, Toronto, ON
• interPLAY symposium, York University, selected by Dr. Adam Lauder, Toronto, ON
• “Conversations with Jen Aitken and Craig Sibley”, Online Publishing for Decoy Magazine, Vancouver, BC
2015
• “Going On- Conversations” interview with Dr. Susan Gerofsky, Independent Web Development Publishing Psychogeographie, Vancouver, BC
2016-2018
• Daughters of Darkness Coven, Conversations and Social Practice Community, collaboration with women participants, Co-organized with Qiyama Li and Layla Gaib, Vancouver BC
2019
• Social Diversity for Children Foundation Winter Gala, two paintings “The Butler Did It” and ”Book Typeface” auctioned, Vancouver, BC
2021
• “Trading Portraits for Landscapes” essay, Online Publishing for within tensions, vol. 16, issue Nature, Vancouver, BC
2022
• The Craft, The James Black Gallery, curated by Cherie Crocker, Vancouver, BC
2023
• Skin Stitching Traditional Indigenous Tattoo, Trade for Precious Beads, Silver, Copper, Moose Hair Tufts, Tobacco and Jewelry. Mi’kmaw Design co-conceptualized by Cherie Crocker and Traditional Tattooist and Contemporary Gwitchin Artist Jeneen Frei Njootli.
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