Abstract Images
"Ghosting 1;" Pigmented beeswax and mixed media on panel; 12 1/4" x 12 1/4"; 2017
Modular Abstract Installations
"Ghosting;" Pigmented beeswax and mixed media on panel; 8 panels – each panel 12 1/4" x 12 1/4"; 2017
Current and Recent Projects
12th International Encaustic Conference
I will present a talk on "Inspiration" in June 2018 at the conference in Provincetown, MA. This talk will focus on the individual ways different artists get inspired to produce specific types of art work.
https://www.castlehill.org/12th-international-encaustic-conference
UPCOMING WORKSHOP: I will be teaching the workshop "All about the Line," on Wednesday June 6th at Truro Center for the Arts. This one day workshop is for beginning - advanced artists working with encaustic paint. It will demystify how to get a variety of types of lines in wax. We will focus on using all different types of techniques, materials and tools to make lines. Some of these will be tjanting tools, electric wax writers, wax styluses, metal leaf, ArtGraf carbon, Stabilo Woody crayons, stencils and batik tjaps. You’ll have ample opportunity to experiment with tools without having to buy them, and will leave with some new skills and a couple of new tools of your own.
https://www.castlehill.org/pre-post-workshops-1/all-about-the-line-with-cat-crotchett
Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions
UPCOMING: I have been invited to participate in the exhibition "The Blues" at the Peck Gallery at the beginning of June 2018. The gallery's location is 142 Commercial Street; Provincetown, MA 02657.
RECENT: In March I had work in the FUSEDChicago group exhibition, "Bijou at the Brickton," at the Brickton Art Center in Park Ridge IL.
RECENT: One of my pieces was included in the 33rd Annual International exhibition at the Meadows Gallery at the University of Texas at Tyler. 730 pieces were submitted and 41 were accepted.
RECENT: I spoke to the encaustic group FUSEDChicago on January 6th. The topic was "Idea Generation and Development."
RECENT: I had a solo exhibition at the University of Michigan's Taubman Center in the north lobby from September - December 2017.
RECENT: My work was represented in the group exhibition "Encaustic 2017: Rebirth of an Ancient Medium," at the Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, IL. The exhibition ran from July 21 - September 8, 2017.
RECENT: I had a piece in the juried "6th Annual Encaustic Exhibition," at Morpho Gallery in Chicago in August 2017
2017 Support for Faculty Scholars Award Project
I received this grant to fund the production of a large, multi-panel mixed media artwork. This work took me into new areas of mixed technology creative research combining Western and Eastern patterns – using encaustic paint, Indonesian batik tools and shaped panels. This piece was exhibited in the Annual Frostic School of Art Faculty Exhibition in fall 2017.