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Carolyn Prince Batchelor

Claremont Graduate Universities, Claremont, California, M. A.
Scripps College, Claremont, California, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa
Various workshops in painting, drawing, and fiber.

Recent selected shows and awards:

2009 ~ Juried Exhibitions
“Six Books,” Graton Gallery, Fine Art and Artisan Grafts, Graton, CA.

“Dualities,” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA. Merit Award

“Bibliophoria,” Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.

2008
“Earth, Air, Fire, Water,” Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ.

2007
“Fiber National 2007,” Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA.

“Pulp Function,” a survey of contemporary paper art, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (traveling through 2010).

2006
“Needle Culture: Contemporary Mixed Media Textiles,” Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona.

“Carolyn Prince Batchelor: Beyond Beads, a solo exhibition of new work,” Lewis/Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho.

2005
“Constants and Variables,” First Place Award, Surface Design Members Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.

“It's Elemental, A Fine Crafts Exhibition,” Jurors' Award, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona.

“National Bead and Fiber Exhibit,” Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, Maryland.

2003
“Journey’s End National Art Exhibition,” Sacagawea Award, Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon.

2002
“The Audacious Bead,” The Bead Museum DC, Washington, D.C.

2001
“Beadwork II: The Embellished Shoe,” Jurors’ Choice, Loveland Museum, Loveland Colorado.

Selected books and articles that feature Batchelor's paper beadwork:

CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES: SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION MEMBERS’ SHOW, exhibition catalogue, 2005, CD-ROM.

Krautwurst, Terry, ed., 500 BEADED OBJECTS, NEW DIMENSIONS IN CONTEMPORARY BEADWORK, Lark Books, 2004, p.76, 319.

Batchelor, Carolyn Prince, “Lewis and Clark Revisited—In Beads,” Fiberarts, Vol. 30, No. 3, p.12.

King, Patti Jo, “Carolyn Prince Batchelor, Tradition and Innovation,” Flagstaff Live!, Volume 7, Issue 9, p. 11.

Campbell, Jean, ed., THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY BEADWORK, Interweave Press, 2000, pp.20-21.

Moss, Kathlyn and Scherer, Alice, THE NEW BEADWORK, Abrams, 1992, p.23.

Smith, Barbara Lee, CELEBRATING THE STITCH: CONTEMPORARY EMBROIDERY OF NORTH AMERICA, Taunton Press, 1991, pp.56-57.

Koplos, Janet, “Paper Clothing, East and West," Fiberarts, Vol.11, No.2, p.39.