SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Mississippi Mudmaid Museum, Creative Electric Studios: Art Boat, Mississippi River, Minneapolis, MN
2008
The Girls for the well and Other Distractions, South East Missouri University, Cape Girardeau, MO
2007
What I meant to Say, Curator: Alex Lopez, Vtrue Artspace, San Antonio, TX
2006
Vreggle Vripps, Creative Electric Studios, Minneapolis, MN
Vreggle Vripps, Trisolini Gallery, Athens, OH
2004
Shuffle Step, Solo Exhibition, Creative Electric Studios, Minneapolis, MN
2001
The Winter Years-MFA Thesis Show, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Ceramic Surface, Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT (upcoming)
Ceramic Surface, AMACO-Brent Contemporary Clay Gallery, Indianapolis, IN (upcoming)
Shirts and Skins, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD (upcoming)
13th Biennial Teapot Exhibition: HOT TEA, Craft Alliance, Curator: Stefanie Kirkland, St. Louis, MO (upcoming)
A Feast of Beads, Facere Jewelry Art, Curator: Gail Brown, Seattle, WA (upcoming)
…and then…, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL (upcoming)
Bill O'Donnell + Pattie Chalmers, McCleans County Art Center, Curator: Claire Hedden, Bloomington, IL (upcoming)
2011
Figurine, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
The Everenders, Lynn Merhige Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Dead Reckoning: Boats, Buoys, and Beyond, Curator: Peter Morgan, Tampa, FL
The Summer Preview Exhibition, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Figuration, the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Making Fun: the 67th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Curator: Timothy Berg, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Multiple Personalities, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO Intimations of Candor and Culpability, Pavel Amromin & Pattie Chalmers, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT Interpreting the Cup: Process, Influence and Intent, Curator: Jason Bige Burnett, Crimson Laurel Gallery, Bakersville, NC
2010
Renewal Notice: Creative Reuse in Contemporary Art and Design, Curator: Garth Johnson, American conservation Film Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
Illinois Clay—2010, Curator: Dan Anderson, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Expat Report, Ontario Craft Council Gallery, Toronto, ON (catalogue)
Expat Report, Lafreniere and Pai Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Decalomania, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
State of the Art 2010:National Biennial Ceramics Invitational, Curator: Erin Furimsky, Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL (catalogue)
Transcending the figure, Invitational Exhibition, Curator: Tom Bartel, the Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH (catalogue)
The Travel Show, Curator: Peter Morgan, Philadelphia, PA
La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2009
Teapots: Functional, Formal, Narrative, Invitational, Curator: Margaret Bohls, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire, WI (online catalogue)
Spoon it, Fork it, Cut it up, Baltimore Clayworks, Curator: Gail Brown, Baltimore, MD
Hearts Desire, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO
Creative Practice, SIUC Art Faculty Exhibition, St. Louis Community College, Forrest Park Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Cups, National Invitational Exhibition, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2008
Voices, NCECA Invitation Exhibition, Curators: Holly Hannesian + Kate Lydon, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
Ceramic Objects/Conceptual Material, Juror: John Perrault, DDP Gallery, Fayetteville, AR (catalogue)
Mores Revealed, Uncommon Objects, Curator: Melanie Egan, York Quay Centre, Toronto, ON Curiouser and Curiouser, Mclean County Arts Center, Curator: Alison Hatcher, Bloomington, IL (catalogue)
OBJECToronto, Presented by Lafreniere and Pai Gallery at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (catalogue)
2007
Europ-O-centric Works, Curator: Susan O’Brien, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Ceramics Invitational Exhibition: Curator: Tom Bartel, Western Kentucky University Gallery, Bowling Green, KY (catalogue)
15th Annual Fellowship Fund Cup Sale, NCECA Conference, Louisville Convention Center, Louisville, KY
La Moustache: a traveling Drawing Show, Boa Taverne Moderne, Montreal, QC
…and I am blue…, Mclean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
2006
Good Bird, Bad Bird, Jurors: Namita Wiggers, Marcia Macdonald + Mary Lou Zeek, Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR
Annual Combined Faculty Exhibition, Mitchell Gallery, Carbondale, IL
2005
Tell, Curator: Melanie Egan, Uncommon Objects, York Quay Centre, Toronto, ON
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON
Fresh Work, Studio Works, Toronto, Canada
Shallow: an examination of ceramic surface, Two Person Exhibition, Studio Works, Toronto, ON
New Work, Two Person Exhibition with Karina Guevin, Lafreniere + Pai Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2004
Tekhne, Curator: Melanie Egan, Uncommon Objects, York Quay Centre, Toronto, ON
Small for the Wall 2, Lafreniere + Pai Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Shadow Box Auction, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
Toronto Bay Initiative Auction, Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
Same Time and Place, Juror: John Armstrong, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, ON
2003
5th Annual Emerging Sculptors 2003, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto Gimili Film Festival, Gimili, MB
Shadow Box Auction, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
Small for the Wall, Lafreniere + Pai Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Curing Insight, Curator: Brad Copping, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002
Bird x Bird: Benefit Auction + Exhibition, Radiator Art Exhibition Company, Minneapolis, MN
Looped: Video Environments, Juror: Barbara De Genevieve, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Duck Blinders, Faculty Spotlight Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2001
A Likeness; Reexamination of the Contemporary Portrait, Curator: Colleen Mullins, Orbit Gallery,
St. Paul, MN
Below 2001, Juror: Richard Shaw, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
The Third Minnesota National Print Biennial, Juror: T. L. Solien Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
2000
Clay Invitational, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI
Flesh, An Open Exhibit of the Body, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul
á, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Figure Show, Minnetonka Center of the Arts, Wayzata, MN
Foot in the Door Show, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Selected Works 2000, Winona State University, Winona, MN
1999
Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Big Ten Conference, Fine Art Exhibit, Big Ten Conference, Inc., Park Ridge, IL
1998
Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Gallery,
Shepparton, Australia (catalogue)
1997
Remotely Inspired, The Pottery Workshop & Showroom, Hong Kong, China
Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, Auckland, New Zealand (catalogue)
EDUCATION
1998-2001 Masters of Fine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1989-1993 Bachelor o-f Fine Arts Honors, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
1983-1986 Bachelor of Arts, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Aug 2006-Present
Assistant Professor—Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Sept 2002-Aug 2005
Resident Artist—Harbourfront Arts Centre, Toronto, ON
Sept 2005-July 2006
Visiting Artist/Assistant Professor—Ohio University, Athens, OH
Fall 2002
Commission—Ceramic Sculptures for "Republic of Love", Filmed in Toronto, ON
2001-2002
Assistant Professor—Ceramics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Artist Lectures + Workshops
2112
Visiting Artist Lecture + Workshop, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL (upcoming)
2011
Visiting Artist Lecture, the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist Lecture + Workshop, Santa Fe Clay, NM
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2010
Visiting Artist Lecture, Pitzer College, Claremont, Ca
Visiting Artist Lecture + Workshop, Parkland college, Champaign, IL
Visiting Artist Lecture, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Visiting Artist Lecture + Workshop, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
2009
Visiting Artist Lecture—University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Artist Lecture + Workshop—Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Visiting Artist Lecture—Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2008
Visiting Artist, Lecture + Juror—South East Missouri University, Cape Girardeau, MO
2006
Visiting Artist, Lecture + Workshop—Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
2005
Visiting Artist, Lecture + Workshop—White Mountain Academy for the Arts, Elliot Lake, ON
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Davies, Stacy, “Playing with Fire”, Inland Empire Weekly, online edition, February 03, 2011 < http://www.ieweekly.com/cms/story/detail/playing_with_fire/3778/>
Davis, Karen, “Spaces: Enthusiastically eclectic,” San Antonio express News online edition,: My SA Business, 2010. San Antonio, TX. 17 October 2010 <http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/real_estate/Enthusiastically_eclectic_103155419.html >
Sardy, Marin, “Decal-O-mania,” Santa Fe Reporter. 2010. Santa Fe NM, 6 June 2010 <http://naer-wehaa.com/santa-fe-reporter/2010/06/09/s1/?article=901716
Johnson, Garth, (2009). 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, Remake, Restyle, Recycle, Renew. Beverly, MA: Quarry Books.
“Pattie Chalmers at vTrue Gallery.” VOA: Voices of Art Magazine V15 issue 1, 2008: 51.
Judson, Ben, “What I Meant to Say”. Emvergeoning. 2007. San Antonio. 14 Jul 2007
<http://emvergeoning.com/?p=566>.
Guest of Special Blend with hosts Anastasia Gould and Susan Johnson—CKCU FM Ottawa
A Curator’s Perspective: Same Time Same Place, Ontario Craft, Summer 2004
A Likeness: a re-examination of the contemporary portrait, Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Arts Section, June 8, 2001
Contemporary Verse 2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Summer 1998 (illustrations)
Ceramics from a Canadian Perspective, Contact, Autumn 1997, no. 110
MEMBERSHIPS
Artaxis: an evolving independent network of artists
Toronto Arts Coalition (past member)
College Art Association (CAA)
The Haunted Drawing Club
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
American Craft Council (ACC)
International Sculpture Center (ISC)
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2004
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistant Grant, Toronto, Canada
2003
Ontario Arts Council Craft Artists Grant, Toronto, Canada
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, Toronto, Canada
Abraham and Malka Green Award, Canadian Sculpture Society, Toronto, Canada
2001
Thesis Assistance Award, University of Minnesota, Art Department, Minneapolis, MN
1999
Mackenzie-Brown Scholarship, University of Minnesota, Art Department, Minneapolis, MN
1998
Reader's Digest/Lila Acheson Wallace Scholarship, Winnipeg, Canada
Graduate Student Tuition Waiver, University of Minnesota, Art Department, Minneapolis, MN
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
In Canada: Lafreniere + Pai Gallery, 13 Murry Street, Ottawa, Canada