Design Diversity Futurist, Contributing Archivist, The Cheryl D. Miller Collection Stanford University
Cheryl is an artist, a designer, a ground breaker, a mom, a wife and a tour de force! In this extensive interview Cheryl walks us through her experiences from the day MLK was assassinated to her challenges with design institutions to her breakthrough article in Print Magazine which came from her college thesis on why African Americans had it so difficult breaking into the design industry. She went through RISD. She went through Pratt. And today Stanford has an entire gallery dedicated to her life's work. Read more here.
Because Cheryl still gets calls from publications to this day despite her decision to devote her time to being a full time mom for 18 years. Have you ever heard of such thing? And she discuss how she meticulously saved EVERYTHING she ever created since she was a child because she had a date with destiny. And she mastered Bauhaus design and the Swiss grid. But she pushed the envelop by meshing Basquiat and Warhol. And she calls me out for wearing a Burberry shirt a week after the controversial "noose" shirts were put on the market (OUCH! - I can't believe I wore that!!! But kudos to Cheryl for mentioning it). Because she talked about how she had to "own it"... how the work had to stand out. And how she competed. Period.