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BIOGRAPHY:
Born: Dallas, Texas, May, 1954
Location: Established Pine Mills Pottery in May,
1979
EDUCATION:
1976-1978 Apprenticeship with Michael Leach,
David Leach, Jean-Louis Gaudin and Marcos Illeas
in
England, France and Greece.
1972-1976 B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas,
Denton, Texas.
1972 Graduated, Bryan Adams High
School, Dallas, Texas.
EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Daphne Roehr Hatcher has participated
in over two dozen 1- and 2-person shows, as well as over 150 group shows in the
past forty years, beginning in 1972 as a high school senior under the guidance
of Marty Ray, in the Texas High Schools
Art Competition at the Dallas Museum of Art where she received an award.
She has been invited to participate in, and her work has been juried and
curated into ceramic and craft exhibitions by such diverse craft luminaries as
Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio, Susan Peterson,
Karen Karnes, Phyllis Blair Clark, Cynthia Bringle,
Wayne Higby, Don Reitz, William Daley, Jason Hess,
Sherman Hall and Avra Leodis,
among many others. Daphne has received
awards in these shows on many occasions. Daphne has had 2-person shows with her
partner in clay, Gary Hatcher, at the Goldesberry
Gallery in Houston, the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, TX, and at Baylor
University, as well as many other venues.
In recent
years, she has been included in the San Angelo
Museum of Fine Arts National Ceramics Competition in 2008, 2010 and 2012,
as well as their regional show in 2011. Also regionally, her work was shown at Craft Houston 2007, and she received an
award at the 2011 Regional Juried Ceramic
Competition at the Haggerty Gallery in Dallas, TX at UD. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art shows and sells Daphne’s
work, in Fort Worth, TX.
Nationally,
Daphne has been in Functional Ceramics
2011 at the Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster, OH, Utilitarian Clay V: Celebrate the Object 2008 in Gatlinburg, TN, at
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 100 Wood Fired Cups at POTS Gallery in
Seattle, WA, in 2012, Infusion 10 x 10,
at the Craft Alliance gallery in St. Louis MO, and Women Clayworkers, at Chester Springs Studio,
PA.
WORKSHOPS, LECTURES AND TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Daphne has shared her experience with
clay in over 50 workshops and lectures for groups as small as a few individuals
in a classroom to large seminars of over 500 participants. In recent years she
has given workshops at the Fort Worth
Pottery and Sculpture Guild, at Utilitarian
Clay V at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in
Gatlinburg, TN, and in Flagstaff Arizona at Northern Arizona University at the International Wood Fire Conference: 20 + 1
Years of the Tozan Kilns symposium, and in Maui, HI at the Hui No’eau Visual
Arts Center.
PUBLICATIONS
Daphne’s
work appears in Lark Books’ 500 Platters,
Plates & Chargers, The Craft and
Art of Clay, by Susan & Jan Peterson, Functional Ceramics, by Robin Hopper, Clay and Glazes for the Potter, by Daniel Rhodes and Robin Hopper
and Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain
by Jack Troy, and has been featured in articles in Ceramics Art and Perception and in Ceramics Monthly among many other books and magazine articles.
AWARDS AND COLLECTIONS
In 1999, Daphne was awarded The
University of North Texas 1999
President’s Citation. This award is
given to individuals who have given extraordinary service and support to the
University of North Texas either in enhancing its reputation or in helping the
university accomplish its mission.
Daphne’s work is in the public and
private collections of Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona,
Midwestern State University Collection, Wichita Falls, Texas, American Airlines
Corporate Collection, Dallas, Texas, Ceramics Monthly Collection, Westerville,
Ohio, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts Permanent Collection, AMOCA, American
Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California, and the collection of John and
Darlene Williams, among many others.