Sheri Wills Schettino 1963—2025, @_sheriwills_Sheri Wills Schettino died on October 10, 2025, after eighteen months of living privately with cancer. Sheri was the beautiful human being, brilliant artist, best friend, creative partner, and wife, that I had the honor to walk through the world with for the past twenty years. Her kindness warmed our life together and her artwork illuminated worlds around us with meaning and possibility.In her art Sheri worked to develop an understanding of time and memory by exploring gaps between what’s seemingly measurable in the physical world and what’s perceived through lived experience. Her work calls attention to the potential of those gaps as sites of meaning. She said, “I endeavor to realize these ideas through work that is intellectually sound and experientially profound – a meaningful ‘beauty’ that affords personal and emotional resonance.”Her work was recognized in the U.S. and internationally including recently with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a residency at MASS MoCA, and a FluxusMuseum Prize commission and exhibition of her final work “BROADCAST” on the Cycladic island of Paros, Greece.Sheri was a beloved teacher and administrator at the Rhode Island School of Design. On her passing RISD stated that under Sheri’s leadership, the Film, Animation, Video department “strengthened its position as a leading collective in time-based media, affirming the centrality of both exploratory and justice-based work in its curriculum and its ethos. . . . Professor Wills inspired students to learn fearlessly and colleagues to share their expertise generously.”Going forward I will be stewarding Sheri’s legacy and artworks, including seeking to appropriately archive and place her work.In keeping with her wishes Sheri’s social media accounts will be going offline in future.With gratitude and love,John Schettino(Photo by JS, Breakfast with Sheri at Café Bräunerhof, Vienna, 2023.

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