Discipline: Visual Art

Betsey Batchelor

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983

Betsey Batchelor is an American painter, visual artist, and educator living and working in Philadelphia. Batchelor received degrees from The University of the Arts (now known as the Philadelphia College of Art), and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been shown across the Americas, in venues such as the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, Dartmouth College, Swarthmore College, New York University, the Jessica Berwind Gallery, the Jeffrey Fuller Fine Art Gallery, the Matthews Hamilton Gallery in Philadelphia, and galleries in Havana, Cuba. Batchelor has received grants from the Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and currently teaches painting and drawing at Arcadia University

Studios

New Hampshire

Betsey Batchelor worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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