Judith Cutler

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Judith Cutler was born in Johnstown, PA, and has lived in Charlotte, NC for 18 years.   She is a Signature Member and designated Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America in New York City, a Master Circle Member of the International Association of Pastel Societies, a Member of Excellence of the Southeastern Pastel Society in Atlanta. She is also a member of the Piedmont Pastel Society, the Pastel Society of North Carolina, and the Appalachian Pastel Society. Judith earned a Graphic Arts degree from Pennsylvania State University. She worked 25 years as a designer for several companies, including IBM, Holiday Inn Corporation, and Oakland University in Rochester, MI.

In recent years, Judith has found new passion when using pastels as a drawing tool and painting medium.  She also employs mixed media to create award winning art using representational and nonrepresentational approaches.

She is a 2011 recipient of a Regional Artists Project Grant, Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC. In 2005, was selected by the McColl Center for Visual Art to participate in the Windows Project at the Hearst Building in Charlotte.

Cutler's awards include the Pastel Society of America's Annual International Juried Exhibition (2014, 2012, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004); The Pastel Journal: Pastel 100/Abstract Category, Fourth Place (2013), First Place (2008), Third Place (2007) and several Honorable Mentions. The Pastel Journal featured her work in the August, 2007 article, The 21st Century Pastelist, and she was selected the Creative Spark winner (August, 2010). She has also received awards at the 2012 NC Statewide Pastel Exhibition, Appalachian Pastel Society, and Southeastern Pastel Society, to name a few.

Cutler has exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art (2008, 2012), and is in the permanent collection of The Southern Allegheny Museum of Art.

She is represented by Fine Art at Baxter’s Gallery, New Bern, NC; Ambleside Gallery, Greensboro, NC; and Ellen Moore Gallery, Cape Charles, VA.

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August, 2014