D.K. Pritchett

Curriculum Vitae

AWARDS AND EXHIBITS

Creative Arts Guild Festival Patron's Purchase & Competition (1992, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005)

Who's Who in American Education, Marquis (2005), biography published

Who's Who of American Women, Marquis 23rd edition (2002-2003), biography published

Who's Who in America, Marquis 56th edition (2002), biography published

"Works by Deborah Pritchett": Alumni Art Exhibit, LaGrange College (1999)

One-man show of paintings: Young Harris College (1998)

Alumni Weekend Art Exhibit (one-man show), LaGrange College (1992)

LaGrange National IX, juried national exhibit, award (1984)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Art (1981)
LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia

Associate of Fine Arts in Art (1979)
Young Harris College, Young Harris, Georgia

Graduated (1977)
Murray County High School, Chatsworth, Georgia

Attended Chattanooga Valley Elementary School, Flintstone, Georgia

AWARDS RECEIVED DURING COLLEGE YEARS

Smith Art Purchase Award (LaGrange College - 1981)

Scroll Award (LaGrange College - 1981)

Art Scholarship (Young Harris College - 1979)

Best-in-Show Art Purchase Award (Young Harris College - 1979)

Best Drawing Award (Young Harris College - 1978)

WEBSITE

Southern Muse

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Current
COHUTTA SPRINGS CONFERENCE CENTER, Crandall, Georgia
Guest Services/Front Desk Assoc.

August 1991 to August 2001
WESTAT, INC., Gaithersburg, Maryland
Social Research Interviewer (Dalton, Georgia area)
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (conducted by Westat for the Health Care Financing Administration). Interviewed Medicare beneficiaries in their homes.

December 1989 to May 1990
CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION, LaGrange, Georgia
Curator's Assistant (in charge of publications)

March 1982 - November 1989
OMNI ADVERTISING AND GRAPHICS, LaGrange, Georgia
Artist/Typography Director

COMMUNITY AND OTHER INTERESTS

Member Chatsworth-Murray Area Chamber of Commerce, 2011-

Public Relations Officer (2002-2003), volunteer (2000-present), Whitfield-Murray Historical Society, Dalton, Georgia

Mentor/art-pal "Sakes Alive" (2001, 2002), a children's art program initiated by Angie Cook of the Creative Capers Club of Blue Ridge, Georgia.

Judge of Student Art Exhibit, Murray County High School (1998)

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), "The Nation's Report Card" (1998) Assisted with art and music testing in selected Chattanooga-area schools. My role was minor, but it helped me to gain insight on the status of art-in-education in our local schools.

Taught art-activity classes for children and adults, Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange, Georgia (1989-1990)

Guest Lecturer of Basic Graphic Design, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia, substituting at the request of Marcia Brown, (October, 1989)  

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