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