Bette Bates lives in Black Mountain and teaches
drawing and printmaking at Warren Wilson College. Originally
from Columbia, Missouri she received her MFA in printmaking from
East Carolina University. She is a recipient of a North Carolina
Arts Council Visual Artistic Fellowship, an Artist Project Grant
from the Asheville Area Arts Council, and a Ucross Foundation
Residency Grant. She has exhibited widely and has work in various
collections, including the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture
and the Arts, the Asheville Art Museum, and Nations Banks.
For about ten years she worked mainly in graphite on paper,
exploring figurative images in black and white. She is especially
interested in the ways images from mythology and religion shape
our lives. For the past several years she has worked on setting
up the printmaking studio at Warren Wilson College for non-toxic
intaglio printmaking, and has been learning new, safer printmaking
processes along with the students. |
