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 The artist receiving first place at the Art Association of Harrisburg, June 2006. Catherine Prescott is a prize-winning portrait painter from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was recently awarded a 2008 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her work was one of 51 finalists chosen from over 4,000 entries for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. She has won awards in national and state juried shows since 1979 and has lectured and written on the subject of portraits as art. She has had solo shows at the Phillips Museum in Lancaster, PA, and the Pennsylvania College of Technology. In 2005 she was in a two-person exhibit at the Brauer Museum of Art in Valparaiso, Indiana, and a 4-person show entitled "New Philadelphia Realists" at the Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia. She is affiliated with the Andreeva Portrait Gallery and Academy in Santa Fe. Her work has been featured in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, and American Arts Quarterly. She taught painting and drawing at Messiah College for 20 years, and taught portrait and landscape painting for Gordon College's Orvieto, Italy program in '98, '03, and '05 as well as for The Glen workshop, Image Summer Institute, Santa Fe, in '01 and '02. Her exhibition portraits as well as commissioned portraits have been widely collected. Catherine's portraits are known for their psychological insight and depth of character. |
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