North Star Music Festival, Truman State University
Kirksville, MO / October 25 & 26, 2025
"every.single.one" / Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2024 / Photo: Dave Suggs
"every.single.one" / Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2024 / Photo: Dave Suggs
"Deliverer" / dance segment from "every.single.one" performance / costume: Judy Bales
"Transference" / Video-performance / Cave in Les Perrières, France, 2017 / for GNAP France / w/Sally Kidall
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Uphold (from below) / Video-performance, 2019 / NE Missouri woodland / Charles Gran, composer
At the Pole of Heaven II / Lake Pielinen, Koli National Forest, Finland, 2018 / Photo: Leena Jarva
"Her Blue Sea Fire" / 7th International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics / Heinävesi, Finland, 2009
From the dried-out fir leaked honey / video installation (w/performance) / Ahjo Art Center, Joensuu, Finland, 2012. Photo: Stephan Herbers
"Puut Punalle Maat Sinelle" (Red the Trees, Green the Land) / 3-channel video installation / Pori Art Museum, Pori, FInland, 2013-14. Photo: Erkki Valli-Jaakola
"Puut Punalle Maat Sinelle" (Red the Trees, Green the Land) / 3-channel video installation / Pori Art Museum, Pori, FInland, 2013-14. Photo: Erkki Valli-Jaakola
"Let a Sleeping Bear Lie" / performance & film / YATOO Korean Nature Art Center, Gongju, South Korea, 2016. Photo: Daekyum Rho
"Purificación" / performance series / “Tufi’Arte: Encuentro Internacional de Arte en Natura,” Gran Canaria, Spain, 2014. Photo: Carlotta Brunetti (work in background: Carlotta Brunetti)
At the Pole of Heaven / video-performance / Mekrijärvi (Lake), Ilomantsi, FInland, 2008 (video still)
Performances, Exhibitions & Film Screenings
About “every.single.one”
The one-woman show by Cherie Sampson, “every.single.one,” depicts personal, familial and community experiences with hereditary cancer while exploring topics of genetics, integrative oncology, and healing from a patient’s perspective of modern medicine. It is a dramatic interpretation of an intimately personal and simultaneously universal human reality that explores the body as a site of uncertainty in illness, loss, sibling and community interrelationship and survival.
“every.single.one” was a 2023 Jane Chambers Award Finalist.
Performances of "every.single.one" / 2023-25
Columbia Entertainment Company (CEC) Theater
Columbia, MO / February 6–9, 2025
Cherie Sampson: Using the power of performance to share her cancer story
Minnesota Fringe Festival 2024
Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN / August 1-11, 2025
Festival shows | swfringegeek review
Goldman Theater, Edlavitch DCJCC
Washington, DC / July 26, 2024
Theater Washington | 15-minute excerpt (Vimeo)
Midwest Women in the Arts Symposium (MWAS)
Bradley University, Peoria, IL / October 20, 2023
Illinois Women Artists Project
20th Annual Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO)
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, Canada / September 14, 2023
Recent Exhibitions & Screenings / 2024-25
“every.single.one” — Solo Exhibition
Fort Madison Area Arts Association Gallery / July 2025
MSFF Popups — Documentaries & Environmental Films
Highlights from McMinnville Short Film Festival / September 27, 2025
McMinnville Short Film Festival
McMinnville, OR / Feb 27 – Mar 2, 2025
“Viral Integration” — Curated Exhibition
41 Artists Addressing Health Issues — Curated by elin o'Hara Slavick
Susan Samueli Health Sciences Bldg., University of CA, Irvine / Dec 21, 2023 – Dec 15, 2024
St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF)
Hi-Pointe Theater / Nov 7–17, 2024
St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase
Award: Best Experimental Film (“Substance of Venom”)
Hi-Pointe Theater, St. Louis, MO / July 19–21 & 26–28, 2024
Media & Interviews
The Daily Blend — Cherie Sampson & Cheryl Black
MU Research News: Living at the Intersection of Science and Art