Curriculum Vitae

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Email: cprescot@messiah.edu

Prizes and Honors:

2023 Art Renewal Center, 16th International Salon Competition, Finalist, Portraiture Category

2022 Alex Ferrone Gallery, “The Landscape,” Second Prize, Juror: John Paul Caponigro

2020 Art Renewal Center, 14th International Salon Competition, Finalist

2019 TRAC, The Representational Art Conference, Ventura, CA, conference exhibition, Cerulean Prize

2018 Portrait Society of America, Members Only competition, Finalist in Commissions category

2014 Art of the State, PA State Museum, First prize in works on paper

2014 Art of the State, PA State Museum, purchase award

2012-2014 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, exhibit Feb. 2013 – March 2014

2012 Art Renewal Center 2011-2012, Finalist in Figure, International Salon

2012 Portrait Society of America, members’ competition, first honorable mention in Self-Portraits

2011 ACOPAL competition, America China Oil Painting Artists League, finalist

2010 Salmagundi Club Award, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Competition, National Arts Club, New York, NY

2010 Portrait Society of America, members’ competition, fourth prize in Still Life

2010 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio, one of ten artists invited to participate in the “Inspiring Figures” exhibition of women figure painters

2009 Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, National Juried Show, second prize

2006 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,

Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, July I, 2006 to Feb. 19, 2007

2006 Art Association of Harrisburg, National Juried Show, First Prize in Painting

2004 Art Association of Harrisburg, Best of Show, National Juried Competi- tion

2001 PA State Museum. Harrisburg, PA, First Prize in Painting, Art of the State

2000 PA State Museum, Art of the State, First Prize in Painting, Harrisburg, PA

1997 Art Association of Harrisburg, First Prize, National Juried Show,

1996 Gallery Alexy and The Contemporary Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA, Best of Show, Contemporary Realism II, Juror: Sydney Goodman

1996 Elizabethtown College, Second Prize, Sixth Annual PA Juried Exhibit, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, Elizabethtown, PA, Juror: Linda Cunningham.

1995 Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, First Prize in Painting, National Juried Exhibition

1992 State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, First Prize in Painting, Art of the State,

1979 Mill Gallery, Rochester, NY, First Prize, Rochester Women in the Arts,

Selected Solo Exhibits:

2015 North Park University Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Person,” curated by Tim Lowly

2014 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Catherine Prescott: Recent Paintings," Gallery II

2012 Hersh Fine Art, Glen Cove, New York, review, American Arts Quarterly,

2009 YorkArts, York, Pennsylvania

2003 The Phillips Museum, Dana Gallery, Franklin and Marshall College,

Lancaster, PA

2003 Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA

2002 Messiah College, Grantham PA

1994 Messiah College, Grantham PA

1988 Gordon College, Wenham, MA

1987 Messiah College, Grantham, PA

1986 Greenville College, Greenville, IL

1985 Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, MD

1981 Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Selected Group Exhibits:

2022 State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the Sate, Annual Juried Exhibition

2021-23 CIVA traveling show, Portraits From the Collection of Edward C. Knippers

2021 State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the State, Annual Juried Exhibition

2020 State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the State Annual Juried Exhibition

2018 “Mostra,” Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts: a juried exhibition of professors and students celebrating 20 years of the art-intensive semester abroad program, Gordon in Orvieto

2018 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, “Portraits and Their Stories,” an exhibition of portraits by 30 historically significant Twentieth Century artists and featuring my work with four portraits.

2017-18 Christians in the Visual Arts, "The Beautiful," a traveling exhibit curated by Mary McCleary

2017 State Museum of Pennsylvania, 50 Years of Purchase Prizes, curated by Amy Hammond

2017 “Women Painting Women: In Earnest,” curated by Alia El-Bermani and Diane Feissel, Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN, and traveling to J Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, catalog available: here

2017 Santa Clara U. Gallery, Santa Clara, CA, “Honoring the Legacy of David Park,” curator John Seed, catalog available: here

2017 Abend Gallery, Denver, CO, Sight Unseen, curator Alia El-Bermani, catalog at link

2016 Principle Gallery, Charleston, “Tribute to Emanuel Nine: A Portrait

Project,” see project website, catalog available: here

2015-2016 Governor’s Residence, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Arts Experience

2015-2016 Messiah College Climenhaga Galleries, paintings from the permanent collection, Grantham, PA

2015 Inaugural Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Arts honoring the Inauguration of Governor Tom Wolf and First Lady Frances Wolf, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

2014 Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA, “Pay it Forward,” Women Painting Women

2014 Doshi Gallery, PA State Museum, juried exhibit, “Lost/Found World”

2013 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA, Women Painting Women,

2012 PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition, Harrisburg

2012 “The Expedition and Beyond,” Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2011 PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition

2011 Doshi Special Exhibition, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

2010 Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, S.C, “Women Painting Women,”

2010 PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition

2010 82nd National Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg

2010 “Figure 8,” Elizabethtown College Invitational, Elizabethtown, PA

2009 PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition

2009 81st Annual International Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg

2008 Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA, “Celebrate DOSHI”

2007 “Portraiture: A Philadelphia Tradition,” Wayne Art Center, Philadelphia

2007 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY, “Figurative”

2007 Andreeva Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, portraits by faculty members

2005 "New Philadelphia Realists," Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia

2005 "Out of Line," Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Drawing Show

2005 Prescott and Prescott: Image and Substance, Brauer Museum of Art,

Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN. two-person exhibition

2004 “Masters and Mavericks: The Nude,” Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia

2004 “Artists Talk,” exhibition and lecture on my work, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CN, exhibition catalog

2002 “Art of the State,” Susquehanna Museum, Harrisburg, PA juried show

2000 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, NY,

1999 Art Association of Harrisburg, Four-Person Invitational.

1999 “Reality Check,” Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, Invitational

1999 Houghton College, Houghton, NY, Two-Person Exhibit.

1998 National Juried Show, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA.

1996-1998 CIVA Creates the Portrait: Traveling Exhibit; Curators Lennart Anderson and Douglas Giebel.

1996 Biblical Arts Center Museum, Dallas, TX.

1996 Contemporary Realists at the Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA.

1996 Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, Two-Person Exhibit.

1995 Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA

1994 “Searching for the Hidden,” C. S. Lewis Summer Institute, Cambridge, England, Invitational.

1988 Art Association of Harrisburg, Annual National Juried Exhibit.

1988 Pennsylvania Painting Competition, Bucknell University, Juror: Clement Greenberg.

1987 Christians in Visual Arts, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC

1987 The Colorado College Alumni Exhibit, The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

1985 Christians in Visual Arts, Wheaton, IL, Juror: David Tannous.

1985 Shelter '85, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Juror: David Tannous.

1984 The Gallery, York, PA, Tri-State Exhibit, Juror: David Tannous.

1981 Doshi Gallery, Harrisburg, PA, Two-Person Exhibit.

Grants:

2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Individual Artist’s Fellowship

1988-1989 Pennsylvania Council on The Arts and National Endowment for The Arts, Artist in Residence, York Public Schools and Cumberland Valley Public School.

Education:

1966 University of Wisconsin, graduate painting for one summer

1966 B.A., The Colorado College

Selected Collections:

Private collection, Hudson MA

Penn State Health, Lancaster PA

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

State Capitol of Pennsylvania, Office of the Governor

Private Collection, Mill Valley, California

York College, York, Pennsylvania

Private Collection, Arlington, Virginia

Private Collection, Philadelphia, PA

Private Collection, Middletown, PA

Private Collection, University Place, Washington

State Museum of Pennsylvania

Private Collection, York, PA

Private Collection, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Private Collection, NY, NY

Private Collection, Lake Charles, LA

Private Collection, York, PA

Fulton Bank, Lancaster, PA

Private Collection, Tacoma,WA

Private Collection, Mechanicsburg, PA

Private Collection, Atlanta, GA

Private Collection, Grantham, PA

The Boyer Center, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA

Turkey Hill Dairy, Conestoga, PA

Walworth Memorial Public Library, Walworth, WI

Pine Rest Christian Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI

Office of the President, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Messiah College, permanent collection

Private Collection, Harrisburg PA

Private Collection, Harrisburg, PA

Private Collection, Lewisberry, PA

Private Collection, Lake Charles, LA

Private Collection, Brooklyn, NY

Private Collection, Lancaster, PA

Private Collection, Kirchner, Ontario, Canada

Private Collection, Massillon, Ohio

Private Collection, Dillsburg, PA

Private Collection, Wenham, MA

Private Collection, Harrisburg, PA

Private Collection, Chicago, IL

Private Collection, Grantham, PA

Private Collection, State College, PA

Private Collection, Wellesley, MA

Private Collection, Etters, PA

Private Collection, Mechanicsburg, PA

Private Collection, Seelze, Germany

Teaching Experience:

Ongoing since 2009, Private and semi-private lessons at my studio, or the student’s, or remotely

2012, ’14, ’15, '18 Orvieto, Italy, Gordon College, The Orvieto Semester, Portrait Painting

2012 Long Island Academy of Art, three-day portrait workshop

2012 Mechanicsburg Art Center, Mechanicsburg, PA, 3 portrait workshops

2011 Image Seminar: Philadelphia, “Human face, Holy Face: Rembrandt and the Spiritual Dimensions of the Portrait,” Faculty Artist

2009 Andreeva Portrait Academy, Santa Fe, NM, one-week workshop

2003, ‘05, ‘09 Orvieto, Italy, Gordon College, The Orvieto Semester, Painting

1982-2002 Adjunct Instructor in Drawing and Painting, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

2002 IMAGE Summer Institute, instructor in portrait painting, Santa Fe

2001 IMAGE Summer Institute, instructor in landscape painting, Santa Fe, NM

1998 Gordon College, The Orvieto Semester, guest professor of painting, Orvieto, Italy, pilot program

1975-1980 Adjunct Instructor in Art, Roberts Wesleyan College

Bibliography:

2023 Art Renewal Center, International Realism, 16th International ARC Salon, catalog,

2020 Art Renewal Center, International Realism, 14th International ARC Salon catalog

2019 CIVA, Christians in Visual Arts, full page reproduction, juried special section

2019 CIVA, Christians in Visual Arts, Featured Artist of the Month, May 2019 on line

2019 TRAC, The Representational Art Conference, catalog of exhibitions

2019 Image, Thirty Years, 100 Issues, essay, “Life After Thirty,” and full page reproduction

2017 Fine Art Connoisseur, “The Emanuel Nine: Despair and The Power of the Sublime,” by Suzy Hart, September/October, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 52017

2017 Patheos: The Anxious Bench blog, Agnes Howard comments on Tribute to the Emanuel Nine

2016 Image Journal, Mary Kenagy comments on Tribute to Emanuel Nine: A Portrait Project July 2016

2016 CIVA, Christians in Visual Arts, interview about Tribute to the Emanuel Nine: A Portrait Project, by Kate Austin, July 7.

2016 Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, publisher of American Arts Quarterly. “In the Studio: Catherine Prescott and Theodore Prescott,” interview and studio visit, by Allison Malafronte, July blog

2016 IAM, International Arts Movement, founded and directed by Mako Fujimura, interview with editor Alissa Wilkinson for the "Culture Care Newsletter," July Issue, about Tribute to Emanuel Nine: A Portrait Project

2014 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, interview, "face2face: portrait of an artist"

2013 Fine Art Connoisseur, October issue, “Women Painting Women: (R)evolution” by Nancy Bea Miller, full color reproductionP. 101

2013 The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, catalog, essay by Mary Sherrif, color reproduction

2013 Huffington Post, Julia Clift, “Refreshingly Real Women: The Portraiture of Catherine Prescott,” March 16, 2013

2013 The Lucky Compiler, interview: Making the Interior Exterior

2012 American Arts Quarterly, Fall, 2012 issue, editorial review of my solo exhibit at Hersh Fine Art with full color reproduction

2012 25A, Gold Coast Luxury Magazine, Long Island NY, feature on Hersh Fine Art solo exhibit with full color reproduction

2012 Record Pilot, Glen Cove, NY, feature article, reproduction, June 14

2012 Art Renewal Center International Salon, 2012 finalists, catalog

2012 CIVA SEEN, XII: 2012, “Catherine Prescott: Behind the Face,” by Crystal Downing. Feature article with color reproductions

2012 American Art Collector, April 2012, “The Expedition and Beyond”, P. 120, full-page color reproduction P.122

2010 Inspiring Figures, catalog of exhibition at The Butler Institute of American Art, published by The Portrait Societyof America, 2010

2010 American Art Collector, August 2010, “Inspiring Figures,” by Lauren Harris and Gordon Wetmore, full-color reproduction P.73

2009 The Art of the Portrait, Vol.11, Issue #45, “Catherine Prescott: Paint and Passion,” feature article with 2 full- color reproductions by L.L. Winner

2009 Bearing The Mystery, Twenty Years of Image, edited by Gregory Wolfe, full-page color reproduction

2009 The Art of the Portrait, Vol. 11, Issue #43, “Introducing the Invitational Artists” article on exhibit at Butler Institute of American Art, 2010, full-color reproduction

2009 The Beauty of God: Theology and The Arts, ed. by Daniel J. Trier, Mark Husbands, and Roger Lundin, “The Case For A Broken Beauty”, by E. John Walford, pp. 105, 106, with reproduction

2008 Mars Hill Audio, interview about my work on the subject of Reading

2007 The Main Line Today, November 1, “Wayne Art Center celebrates the

tradition of portraiture,” by Marie Fowler, full color reproduction

2007 Patriot News, Harrisburg, PA, feature article with full color reproduction

2006 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., catalog, essay by Dave Hickey

2005 Prescott and Prescott: Image and Substance, catalog published by The Brauer Museum, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, essay by David Morgan

2004 Artists Talk, catalog, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CN

2003 The Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, feature article, “Art with a Heart,” by Carla Difonzo, November 14

2002 Image, A Journal of the Arts and Religion, no. 36, cover article, “Painting Poems: The Psychological Portraits of Catherine Prescott, “ by Kate Daniels

2001 CIVA Directory: full page color reproduction, juried special color section

2000 American Arts Quarterly, summer/fall issue, “Insight, Essence and the Beloved: The Interior Portraits of Catherine Prescott,” by Karen L. Mulder

1999 CIVA Directory: full page color reproduction, juried special color section

1999 The Bridge, Messiah College Magazine: full color reproduction, back cover

1994 The Times, Walworth, WI, feature article, about my large, commissioned painting for the public library, May 25.

1982 The Evening News, Harrisburg, PA, feature article by Jan Chaplick, April 14.

1982 The Quarterly Review, Lancaster, PA, Cover photo and interview, April.

1982 The Bridge, Messiah College Alumni Magazine, feature article, January

1979 Prism, Roberts Wesleyan College Alumni Magazine, feature article, June.

1979 Richmond News Leader, Richmond, VA, feature article.

Published Articles and Presentations:

2022 Upper House, Madison, Wisconsin, presentation, “Let the Art Speak”

2019 TRAC, The Representational Art Conference, presentation, “Manifestations of Modernism in 21st Century Paintings,” Ventura, California

2017 Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, American Arts Quarterly blog, essay "Women Painting Women: In Earnest"

2015 Arte E Fede, “Looking for the Face of Mercy,” public lecture, Dec 7, 2015, Orvieto, Italy

2009 Image, “Four Corners: Painters Frame Contemporary Painting,” essay on the state of painting from a portrait- painter’s point of view

2007 CIVA Seen, “Influences,” essay for the CIVA Newsletter, August, 2015

1999 CIVA 20/20 , Christians in Visual Arts, conference, “Where Have All the Realists Gone? Recent Trends in Representational Painting,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Professional Services

2020 CIVA , Ring LIne Central, “Maker to Maker”, moderator for Christians In Visual Arts on-line portrait painters’
group session

2015 Prize Juror, Art of the State Annual Juried Exhibit, Pennsylvania State Museum

2013 Prize Juror, York Art Association, York, PA

Email:cprescot@messiah.edu