Pattie Chalmers
Pattie Chalmers received her BFA in printmaking in Canada from the University of Manitoba and her MFA in ceramics from the University of Minnesota. She has exhibited in group exhibitions on five continents, in six countries and thirty-six states. She has had ten solo exhibitions in the past eight years, including The Thing of It, at Thomas Hunter Project Space in New York City, the Mudmaid Museum at the Sheldon Center for the Arts in St. Louis, MO and Like a String full of Knots at the Olson Gallery at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN. Chalmers has participated in over two hundred group exhibitions at locations that include the American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Williamson Gallery, the Everson Museum of Ceramic Art, the Daum Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Ulrich Museum of Art, Gallery 224, Harvard Ceramic Center, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art.
Education:
- BA History and Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- BFA Honours Fine Arts Printmaking, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- MFA Ceramics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Awards and Honors
Nominated for a United States Artist Award, McKnight Foundation Grant, Minneapolis, MN, Merit Award, San Angelo Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum, San Angelo, TX, Finalist for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, Abraham and Malka Green Award, Toronto, Canada, SIU Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, Faculty Mentor Award of Excellence.
Collections: San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA; The Sonny Kamm Foundation; St. Olaf College, MN, David and Louise Rosenfield Collection; The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.
Research interests include art, most often ceramics in the form of pottery, sculpture, installation and digital ceramics, but also include drawing, printmaking, embroidery, and video. Chalmers's approaches to making can result in the appearance of a somewhat frenetic studio practice. A suggestion to narrative is the linchpin. Chalmers is inherently a storyteller and an explainer, and through her work, she attempts to map her experiences as a way to lead to a greater understanding of others and herself.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
- Like a String Full of Knots, Olson Gallery, Bethal College, St. Paul, MN
- The Mudmaid Museum, The Sheldon Art Center, St. Louis, MO
- Manitoba Sugar, Arkansas State University Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
- Every Thing and More, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
- Imperfect Ramblings, Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
- The Thing of It, Hunter Project Room, Hunter College, New York, NY
- The Mudmaid Museum, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Absence Takes Form, Curator: Adrienne Spinozzi, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
- Ceramic Invitational, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
- The Vessel Revisited: Fundamental Forms in Contemporary Ceramics, Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA
- The 51st, Old Church Pottery Show; the road to Demarest, Demarest, NJ
- Rendered Fusion – Clay, Connection, Attention, Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
- Origin, Curated by Kensuke Yamada, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD
- Coalescence, Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
- McKnight Exhibition, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Shaping Memories: Expressions in Clay, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
- Radius 1, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR
- 100 Years 100 Women, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
- Clay Currents: the Wichita National Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
- Suburbia, Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON, Canada
- Domestic Matters, Sally D. Francisco Gallery, Layton, NJ
- Raise a Glass—A Contemporary Response to Animal shaped Vessels from the Ancient World, Gallery 224, Harvard Ceramic Center, Cambridge, MA
- The Incongruous Body, American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
- San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo TX
- Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics, Zanesville, OH
- Mélange à Clay, Andrews Gallery, the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, WV
- Transformation 9: Contemporary Works in Ceramics, Society of Contemporary Clay, Pittsburgh, PA
- Female Figure in Clay, Curator: Amy Slater, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
- Figuration, the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
- Making Fun: the 67th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Williamson Gallery, ScrippsCollege, Claremont, CA
Selected Bibliography
- Carter, B. (2024). The complete guide to low-fire Glazes for Potters and Sculptors. New Burlington (Quarto).
- Davies, Stacy, “Playing with Fire”, Inland Empire Weekly, online edition, February 03, 2011 <http://www.ieweekly.com/cms/story/detail/playing_with_fire/3778/>
- Held, P., Taylor, H., Clark, G., Laura Romer Huckaby, & Museum, A. (2021). Ceramics at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts.
- Epp, C., Krueger, J., Vangool, J., & Baldwin, C. (2020). Ceramics : profiles of potters and artisans / written by Carole Epp, Julia Krueger ; design, Janine Vangool ; copyediting, Correy Baldwin. Uppercase Publishing, Inc.
- Contributors: Clark, Garth, Ferrin , Leslie, Gerstein, Beth Ann, et al, American Craft , Vol. 79, No. 1 February/March 2019, p. 39 + Cover Marquis, Andrea,”HERstory”, Ceramics Monthly, Issue 61, No. 8, 2013, p. 44-47 Garcia, Edith, (2012). Ceramics and the Human Figure. London, UK: A & C Black Publishing.
- Seckler, Judy, “Clay’s Good Humour”, Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 87, 2012, p.13-17 Copeland, Colette, “Figuration at the Clay Studio”, Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 87, 2012, p. 96-99
- Davies, Stacy, “Playing with Fire”, Inland Empire Weekly, online edition, February 03, 2011 <http://www.ieweekly.com/cms/story/detail/playing_with_fire/3778/>
- Johnson, Garth, (2009). 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, Remake, Restyle, Recycle, Renew. Beverly, MA: Quarry Books.