W.A.S. HATCH
WENDY HATCH

Wilmington, Delaware
washatch@gmail.com
(302) 658-4380

BACKGROUND:

Born March 19, 1948.  Raised in Westport, Connecticut.
1982 2020: Adjunct Faculty, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania.
1980 Present: Faculty, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
1979 - 1980: Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois.
1973- 1979: Assistant Professor, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.
1972: M.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
1970: B.F.A., Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

ONE PERSON SHOWS:

The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, Delaware 2022.
Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware 2022.
Fit Studio Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware 2015.
Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 2009.
Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 2008.                                         
Carolyn Roberts Gallery, Yorklyn, Delaware, 2004.                                                
Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, 2002.                                                      
Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 1999.                                                   
Station Gallery, Greenville, Delaware, 1992.                                                     
Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 1985.                                          
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975, 1977, 1984.             
Delaware State Arts Council Office Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 1983.              
Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, 1981.                                                       
Delaware Art Museum, Downtown Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, 1980.               
Illinois Arts Council Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1980.                                              
Kutztown State University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 1980.                                        
Tower Park Gallery, Peoria, Illinois, 1974, 1980.                                           
Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, 1979.                                                 
Illinois Central College, East Peoria, Illinois, 1979.                                                   
Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, Illinois, 1977.                                                                        
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, 1976.                                                    
Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1974.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

University of Leeds, Leeds, England.
Municipal Council, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
United States Information Agency, Embassy Collections.
City College of New York, New York, New York.
San Diego State University, California.
Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina. 
IBM, Chicago, Illinois.
Xerox Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Twinrocker Handmade Papers, Brookston, Indiana.
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.
Freeport Museum, Freeport, Illinois.
Portland Museum, Portland, Oregon.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois.
Maryland Bank National Bank, Wilmington, Delaware.
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois.
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.
Prudential Art Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Delaware Division of Libraries Art Collection, Dover, Delaware.
Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania.

INTERNATIONAL PRINT AND DRAWING EXHIBITIONS:

6th British International Print Biennale, Invitational, Bradford, England, 1979.
"Now Drawing Is . . ."  Small Drawing Invitation, Imbashi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1978.
World Print Competition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1977. Selected for the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition, 1978.
"Grafica Contemporanea Americana," Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy, 1977.
Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1975, 1977.
Miami Biennale, Miami, Florida, 1977, 1975.
International Portrait Invitational, Art Core Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1977.
Premio Internazionale Biella per l'Incisione, Biella, Italy, 1976.
5th International Exhibition of Original Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, Riejeka, Yugoslavia, 1976.
11th Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1975.
4th International Graphic Arts Exhibition, Republic of China, 1975.
International United States Graphics Annual, Graphics Society, Hollis, New Hampshire, 1973 Purchase Award, 1975.
Folio Seventy Three, International Exhibition by California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California, 1973.
3rd British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England, 1972.
International Miniature Print Competition, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, New York, 1971.

NATIONAL COMPETITIVE PRINT AND DRAWING EXHIBITIONS:

"In Celebration of Prints," Philadelphia Print Club, Pennsylvania, 1980.
"Women Artists '79, Paperworks," University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1979.
2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, Purchase Award 1978, 1979.
Printmaking & Drawing Competition, Artists Guild of Chicago, Illinois, 1979.
Colorprint U.S.A., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978.
Potsdam National Print Exhibition, Potsdam, New York, 1974, 1978.
First National Print Exhibition, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois, 1978.
National Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles, California, Purchase Award 1973, 1974, 1977.
Oklahoma National Exhibition, Oklahoma Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1972, 1975, 1977.
National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Connecticut 1972, 1974, 1976.
Boston Printmakers Annual, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974, 1975, Merit Award, 1976.
19th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1975.
North Dakota Print and Drawing Show, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1972, 1973.
3rd Annual National Print Exhibition, Georgia State University, 1972.
1st National University Print Invitational, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, 1972.
4th National Print Exhibition, San Diego State, San Diego, California, Purchase Award, 1972.
Graphics '71, Western New Mexico University, New Mexico, 1971.
National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Mercyhurst College, Pennsylvania, 1970.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Images 2003, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, 2003.
Regional Center for Women in the Arts, West Chester, PA, 2001.
Now and Then: New Work by DCCA Juried Exhibition Winners 1987-1999, Wilmington, Delaware, 1999
Stars and Stripes Forever, R. H. Love Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1992
Delaware Women's Invitational '92, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
Biennial '91, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, 1991.
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Award Winners, Wilmington, Delaware, 1990.
Delaware Nature Center, Yorklyn, Delaware, 1990.
Cow Show, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1987.
Still Life Painting, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986.
Widener University Museum, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1986.
Delaware Art Museum 68th Regional Exhibition, Wilmington, Delaware, 1985.
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Award Winners, Wilmington, Delaware, 1985.
Eastern Regional Drawing Exhibition, Beaver College, Glenside Pennsylvania, Purchase Award, 1983.
Small Drawing Exhibition, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Award winner, 1983.
"Women Laughing", Gallery 20, Newark, Delaware, 1982.
"Definition Fantasy", Tweed Arts Group, Plainfield, New Jersey, 1982.
"Handmade Paper," Silver Cloud Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois, 1980, 1981.
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1979, 1980.
"Works on Paper," 77th Exhibition Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1978.
6 Artists Make Paper, Wallnuts Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1979.
New Talent in Printmaking '77, Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, New York, 1977.
Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California, 1977.
Three Bradley Faculty, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, 1976.
The Classical Revival, drawing show organized by Illinois Bell, Chicago, Illinois, 1975.
Frozen Waterfall Prints, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1975.
Western Illinois University, "Works of Art on Paper," Macomb, Illinois, 1976.
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 1975.
Pace Editions Gallery, "New Talent" show, New York, New York, 1974.
Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, 1974.
United States Information Agency, traveling exhibitions, 1973, 1974.
"American Printmakers," F-15 Gallery, Moss, Norway, 1973.
"Seven New York Artists," Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1972.
22nd New England Painting Exhibition, Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1971.

OTHER HONORS:

Board of Overseers, Delaware College of Arts & Design, a partnership of Pratt Institute and the Corcoran School of Art & Design, 2002-08.

Creator of “14 Carat Herbivore” as part of 48 decorated dinosaurs for Dino Days public sculpture.  Wilmington, DE, 2002

Curator, "The Making of a Print," Invited Artists: Clare Romano, Carol Summers, Peter Milton, Minna Resnick, Vivian Berman. Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, 1990.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, Artistic Direction Committee, 1988-1997.

Board of Directors, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, 1980-1985, 2015 -present; Fundraising Chairperson 1981-1983; Vice President 1982-1983.

Artist-in-the-Schools, Delaware State Arts Council, Guest Workshops 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989.

Commission to reprint old zinc plates made by John Richards between 1868-1888 of scenes of Old Germantown area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1983.

Associated American Artists Gallery, Publisher for a Collectors Print, Lithograph "Decanter and Glasses," New York City, 1980.

Artist-in-Residence collaborations at Twinrocker Handmade Paper, Brookston, Indiana, 1979, 1980, 1981.

Guest Artist at Syracuse University, College of Experimental Studies in Art, for lectures on papermaking and printmaking under the auspices of a Ford Foundation Grant, 1979.

Chairperson, Bradley National Print And Drawing Exhibition, 1975, 1977, 1979.

Authored "The European Graphic Biennale," an article published in Print Review 7 magazine, by Pratt Graphics Center, New York City; Review of the 6th Krakow, Poland Biennale and 5th British Biennale; provides a comprehensive list of international exhibitions, 1977.

Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1978.

Bradley University Faculty Research and Creative Production Grants, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978.

Membership Print Edition for Pratt Graphics Center, New York City, 1973.