KATIE BEECHER, WATERCOLOR ARTIST
www.beecherwatercolors.com
860-395-4294 Katie@beecherwatercolors.com
MAJOR JURIED EXHIBITIONS include:
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Salmagundi Club
National Watercolor Society Pfizer BARE Show
Academic Artists Association Audubon Artists
New Britain Museum of American Art Connecticut Watercolor Society
American Artists Professional League Watercolor USA Honor Society
Northeast Watercolor Society New England Watercolor Society
XIV International Watercolor Competition Connecticut Women Artists
National Association of Women Artists Art of New England
Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Art Center Arts Connecticut
Projekt 30
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (11) include:
Interchurch Center Gallery, Manhattan, NY
Mass Mutual Financial Group
Marylou Fisher Gallery
Alexey Von Schleppe Gallery, UCONN, Four person show
AWARDS include:
88th Annual National Watercolor Society, Jerry’s Artarama Merchandise Award, Selected for Travel Show
77Th Annual Grand National, American Artists Professional League, Leila Gardin Sawyer Memorial Award
Watercolor USA Honor Society, Springfield Missouri Museum of Art, Merchandise
Award and Patron Purchase
54th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Art Center, Winsor Newton Watercolor Award
All About Water, Best in Show Traditional, Patron Purchase
Excellence in Watercolor and other awards
Essex Art Association
Madison Art Association
Connecticut Watercolor Society
ELECTED and SIGNATURE MEMBERSHIPS include:
National Watercolor Society
Watercolor USA Honor Society Connecticut Women Artists
American Artists Professional League Northeast Watercolor Society
National Association of Women Artists Connecticut Watercolor Society
Alexey Von Schleppe Gallery, UCONN Essex Art Association
Madison Art Association Guilford Art League
CURRENT GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Design Essence, Old Saybrook, CT
Virginia Barrett Gallery, Greenwich, CT
PUBLICATIONS include:
Best of America Watermedia Vol. II
Where New York 2008– 21 paintings
Where New York 2009
Town of Katonah New York Brochure
Cover of the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center auction program
Several covers of local magazines, town reports and articles in local newspapers
EDUCATION
B.S. Biology and Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC
M.S. and post graduate work in Psychology and Special Education, Southern Connecticut State University
Special Education and Psychology Teacher Certification, Virginia, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Watercolor classes and workshops with Elaine Hahn, NWS, AWS, Carlton Plummer, AWS, Mel Stabin, AWS, NWS