Biography
Pattie Chalmers received her BFA in printmaking from the University of Manitoba in Canada and her MFA in ceramics in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. She has exhibited in group exhibitions on five continents, in six countries and thirty-two states and over the past ten years has had work in over ninety exhibitions. Chalmers is a Professor and the head of ceramics at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale--she admits that she might be slightly compulsive and that she definitely likes to laugh at her own jokes.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2024
Hinterland, Silverwood Park Gallery, St. Anthony, MN
Dusty Old Darkness, Pattie Chalmers and Caro Burks, Marvin Cone Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA
NCECA Annual: Rendered Fusion – Clay, Connection, Attention, Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
50 Years in the Making, the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Trash or Treasure, Curated by Peter Morgan, for NCECA, Abode Interiors, Richmond, VA
Material Mugs IX, Companion Gallery, Humboldt, TN
Ages and Ages, H.G. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Presenters Showcase, Chadima Gallery, Iowa Ceramics Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
Americano, Clay Akar, Iowa City, IA
2023
The Mudmaid Museum, The Sheldon Art Center, St. Louis, MO
Manitoba Sugar, Arkansas State University Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
Origin, Curated by Kensuke Yamada, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD
Coalescence, Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
Merge: SIUe and SIU. Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati NCECA, OH
Undertow, organized by Zach Tate, Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati NCECA, OH
Outlaws, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, Meramec Community College, St. Louis, MO
2022
Small Matters, Colorado Mesa University 437Co Art Gallery, Grand Junction, CO
Valentine Plate, Clay Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Last Call VII, Juror: Tim Kowalczyk, Companion Gallery, Humboldt, TN
A Sublime Holiday Group Show, Shape Theory Collective, Online Exhibit
2021
Every Thing and More, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Imperfect Ramblings, Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Pattie Chalmers, In Tandem Gallery, Bakersville, NC
Pattie Chalmers + Andrea Keyes Connell, Plough Gallery, Atlanta, GA
McKnight Exhibition, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Shaping Memories: Expressions in Clay, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
Layers of Being Ceramic Invitational, Bill Ford Gallery, Paducah School of Art and Design, Paducah, KY
Yunomi Invitational 2021, Clay Akar Gallery, Iowa City IA
2020
Radius 1, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR
Yunomi 2020, Clay Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
100 Years 100 Women, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Critical Function II, National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Concurrent Exhibition at Visual Arts Center of Richmond. VA
Midwest Pottery Festival, Kansas City Urban Potters Studio, Kansas City, KS
American Pottery Festival 2020, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis Minnesota
Filled Up: A Ceramic Cup Show, The New Harmony Clay Project, New Harmony, IN
Material Mugs V: Underglaze, Companion Gallery, Humboldt, TN
Pattie Chalmers received her BFA in printmaking from the University of Manitoba in Canada and her MFA in ceramics in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. She has exhibited in group exhibitions on five continents, in six countries and thirty-two states and over the past ten years has had work in over ninety exhibitions. Chalmers is a Professor and the head of ceramics at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale--she admits that she might be slightly compulsive and that she definitely likes to laugh at her own jokes.
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2024
Hinterland, Silverwood Park Gallery, St. Anthony, MN
Dusty Old Darkness, Pattie Chalmers and Caro Burks, Marvin Cone Gallery, Cedar Rapids, IA
NCECA Annual: Rendered Fusion – Clay, Connection, Attention, Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
50 Years in the Making, the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Trash or Treasure, Curated by Peter Morgan, for NCECA, Abode Interiors, Richmond, VA
Material Mugs IX, Companion Gallery, Humboldt, TN
Ages and Ages, H.G. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Presenters Showcase, Chadima Gallery, Iowa Ceramics Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
Americano, Clay Akar, Iowa City, IA
2023
The Mudmaid Museum, The Sheldon Art Center, St. Louis, MO
Manitoba Sugar, Arkansas State University Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
Origin, Curated by Kensuke Yamada, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD
Coalescence, Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
Merge: SIUe and SIU. Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati NCECA, OH
Undertow, organized by Zach Tate, Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati NCECA, OH
Outlaws, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, Meramec Community College, St. Louis, MO
2022
Small Matters, Colorado Mesa University 437Co Art Gallery, Grand Junction, CO
Valentine Plate, Clay Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Last Call VII, Juror: Tim Kowalczyk, Companion Gallery, Humboldt, TN
A Sublime Holiday Group Show, Shape Theory Collective, Online Exhibit
2021
Every Thing and More, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Imperfect Ramblings, Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Pattie Chalmers, In Tandem Gallery, Bakersville, NC
Pattie Chalmers + Andrea Keyes Connell, Plough Gallery, Atlanta, GA
McKnight Exhibition, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Shaping Memories: Expressions in Clay, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
Layers of Being Ceramic Invitational, Bill Ford Gallery, Paducah School of Art and Design, Paducah, KY
Yunomi Invitational 2021, Clay Akar Gallery, Iowa City IA
2020
Radius 1, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR
Yunomi 2020, Clay Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
100 Years 100 Women, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Critical Function II, National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Concurrent Exhibition at Visual Arts Center of Richmond. VA
Midwest Pottery Festival, Kansas City Urban Potters Studio, Kansas City, KS
American Pottery Festival 2020, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis Minnesota
Filled Up: A Ceramic Cup Show, The New Harmony Clay Project, New Harmony, IN
Material Mugs V: Underglaze, Companion Gallery, Humboldt, TN