• 25+ years of experience as a professional artist and teacher in glass beadwork and cast glass
• Resident artist at the Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
  Museum collections including, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and The Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
• Exhibited nationally and locally including a retrospective show at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington, which was commemorated in an accompanying catalog.

Education & Residencies

• Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
  • Resident artist, cast glass, 2011
  • Cast glass, instructor Hank Adams, 2006
• Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA, cast glass, instructor Cathy Chase, 2007
• Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC,
• Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
  • Cast glass, instructor Nancy Blair, 2006
  • Sosin Scholarship, 1995
  • Maveety Scholarship, 1994
• Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA - B.A., Design, 1989

PACIFIC NORTHWEST

• Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, “Sinful,” 2012
• Viscosity Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Fillet," 2007
• Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, "Palate & Palette," 2006
• Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, "Contrasts: A Glass Primer," 2006
• Bellevue Arts Museum, Solo Show, Bellevue, WA, "Two Hands, Twenty Years and a Billion Beads,", 2005
• Wustum Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence," 2005
• Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR, Craft Biennial, 2003
• Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, “Documents Northwest: Sewn,” 2001
• Glass Exhibit Invitational, curated by Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA, “Passion Afire,” 1997
  

NATIONAL

• The Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC, "Materials Unexpected," 2010
• Loveland Museum-Gallery, Loveland, CO,
  • "Integral Elements," 2010
  • “Men of the Cloth,” traveling show, 1999 - 2000
• Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
  • "Penland Residence Show," 2009
  • "Bodies Show," 2008
  • "Ethos," 2006
  • “Familiar Artists,” 2003
• Habitat Galleries, Tysons Corner, VA, "Artists of Penland," 2009
• Tibbott Gallery, Nashville, TN, "Solo Show," 2008
• Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Fiber Biennial," 2008
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, "Jewelry By Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection,", 2007
• Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA,
  • "Celebrating the Art of Adornment," 2007
  • Solo Show, 2004
  • SOFA Chicago, 1997
• PISMO Gallery, Denver, CO, "2007 Bead Invitational", 2007
• Landcaster Museum of Art, Landcaster, PA, "Fiber National", 2007
• Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Fiber Biennial," 2006
• Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY, "Life Insight,"2006
• National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, "Glass Bead," 2006
• Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, "Making Sense," 2006
• Fuller Museum of Art, Brocton, MA, "The Perfect Collection," 2004
• Virginia Breier, San Francisco, CA, "Constructions & Compositions," 2004
• Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, "The Seeds of Beads," 2003
• Julie: Artisans' Gallery, New York, NY, 2003
• The Artful Teapot: 20th-Century Expressions From the Kamm Collection, traveling show organized by Exhibitions International, New York City, NY, 2002 - 2005
• Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT, “Catching The Light,” 2002
• American Craft Museum, New York, NY, “Beadz!: Contemporary Bead Artists,” 1999 - 2000
• The Dairy Barn, Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH, “Bead Works,” 1998
• Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO, “Pure Vision: American
• Bead Artists Invitational Show,” traveling show, managed by Exhibits USA, 1997 - 2000
• Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, “Stitchers & Beaders: America’s Best Invitational,” 1997
• Embellishment Conference, Austin, TX, “Seed Bead from Three Points of View,” 1997

INTERNATIONAL

• El Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2002 - 2004.
• The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH, “Bead International 2000,” traveling show, 2000 - 2002
• Rebellious Bead, exhibitor - traveling beadwork exhibition held in conjunction with the “Third International Bead Conference” in Bethesda, MD, 1995 - 2000

1992 - 2001 - Twenty-eight other exhibitions with various venues nationwide, details available upon request

Collections

• Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2010
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, 2007
• Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2003
• Bead Museum, Glendale, AZ, 2003
• The Museum of Arts and Design, formerly The American Craft Museum, New York, NY, 2002
• The Kamm Teapot Collection, Los Angeles, CA, contact Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 1997
• Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, 1996

TEACHING & LECTURES

Various locations since 1991, locally, nationally, and internationally, in England, Turkey, Australia, and New Zealand.

• Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood, WA, workshop, 2008
• Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, lectures and workshops, 2002 - 2008
• Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN, workshop, 2007, 1999
• Third International Bead Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, lecture and workshop, 2007
• Geelong Forum, Geelong, Australia, workshop, 2007
• Aotearoa Textiles Regional Forum, New Zealand, workshop, 2007
• Bead & Beadwork Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, lecture, workshop, 2007
• The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, lecture, 2006
• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, lecture and workshop, 2005
• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, NC, workshops 2008
• Glass Art Society Conference, St Louis, MO, lecture, 2006
• Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, lecture, 2005
• Friends of Fiber Art, lecture, Five Perspectives SOFA Chicago, 1998
  

JURIES

• The Philadelphia Museum Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, “Craft Show,” 2004
• Bead Museum DC, Washington D.C., “The Audacious Bead,” 2002
• Folklife, Seattle, WA, 2001
• The Dairy Barn, Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH, “Bead Works 2000,” 1999
• Beads & Beyond, summer competition and exhibition, 1998
• Goldstein Gallery Bead Show, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1997
• Bead Conference, Bellevue Art Museum, WA“Ubiquitous Bead II,” and “Rebellious Bead,” 1985

• United States Artists, online grant campaign resulting in the creation & installation of 2000 lb. window in a residence, 2011.
• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, NC, artist residency, 2008
• Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood, WA
  • Scholarship Recipient, 2007, 1994, & 1995
  • Doug & Dale Anderson Scholarship Recipient, 2006
• Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, Craft Biennial Merit Award Winner, 2003
• Portland Bead Society, Portland, OR, Purchase Grant Award, 2003
• Penland School of Craft, Visiting Artist, Penland, NC, 2002
• Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA, Artist in Residence, 2001
• Artist Trust, award recipient from the Washington State Arts Commission, 2000
• Bead Society of Greater Chicago, grant recipient, 2000
• Lillian Elliott Award, one of eight nominated for the by 3 anonymous notables in the field of Fiber Art, 2000
• Northwest Bead Society, grant recipient, 1999
• Portland Bead Society, grant recipient, 1999
• Betty Bowen/Poncho Recognition Award, administered by the Seattle Art Museum, 1997
• Northwest Bead Society, grant recipient, 1995

Press & Publications

• Art Zone with Nancy Guppy, Seattle Channel, October 18, 2011.
• Beadwork."David Chatt: New Horizons in Glass" Melinda Barta, p64-67, December 2009/January 2010
• The History of Beads: From 100,000 B.C. to the Present, Revised & Expanded Edition, Lois Sherr Dubin: Books, 2009.
• Craft in America, “Chatt, David”, www.craftinamerica.org/artists_fiber/story_318.php. 2007.
• The Courier-Journal. Louisville, KY, "Artists Delve into Human Experience" Diane Heilenman, July 2, 2006
• Step by Step Beads. "Profile: David Chatt" Alice Korach, pp 34 - 38, May/June 2006
• Seattle Weekly. "David Chatt" Sue Peters, p 59, February 1, 2006
• Fiberarts Magazine, p. 16, April/May 2006
• Seattle Times, Sunday Magazine."Scavenged Splendor" Valerie Easton, p14-24, November 27, 2005
• American Style."The Bearable Lightness of Beading" Lee Lawrence, p76-83, October 2005
• Ornament Magazine."Beadwork Subversive" Robin Updike, p44-47, Spring 2005
• The Art of Beadwork. Valorie Hector, p21, 91-93, editor, 2005
• Fibrearts Design Book #7. Susan Mowery Kieffer, editor, p83, 2004
• Create Your Own Style with Swarovski. Swarovski AG, 2004
• 500 Beaded Objects. edited by Terry Krautwurst, 2004
• Fiberarts. "Expressions in Beadwork" Patricia Harris and David Lyon, Nov/Dec 2004
• New Glass Review #25. The Corning Museum of Glass, 2004
• American Style. “A Spectacular Fall for Craft” Lee Lawrence, October 2004
• Structure of the Visual Book. fourth edition, Keith A. Smith, 2003
• American Craft. "Museum Collection" Joyce Lovelace, 2003
• Surface Design Journal. "The Challenges of 3-D Beadwork" Wendy Ellsworth, Spring 2003
• New Glass Review #23. The Corning Museum of Glass, 2002
• The Art of Beadwork. Valorie Hector, to be published 2002
• The Artful Teapot. Garth Clark, 2001.
• Fiberarts. "Zen and the Art of Beading" Susan Kieffer, September/October 2001
• Piece Work. May 2001
• The Seattle Post Intelligencer. "A Common Thread Links Intricate Work" Victoria Josslin, March 30th, 2001
• The Seattle Weekly. "Material Girls and Boys" Anna Fahey, March 29th, 2001
• The Herald. Everett, WA, "Lively displays of organic art featured at 2 Seattle galleries" Diane Wright, March 16, 2001
• South County Journal. Kent WA, "Documents Northwest exhibit explores the possibilities of textile art" Doug Margeson, March 9, 2001
• Perlenbuch. Natasha Wolters, 2000
  The Best in Contemporary Beadwork: Bead International 2000. Jean Campbell, editor, 2000
• The Beadworkers Guild. "Face to Face with David Chatt" Sue Richardson, September 1999
• The Bead Museum, “Bead Sculpture”, September 1999.
• Bead Art. Featured artist, edited by Alice Korach, Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1998
• American Craft Magazine. Featured in Portfolio section April/May 1997
• The New Glass Review # 16 & # 17. The Corning Museum of Glass, 1994, 1995
• The New Beadwork. Kathlyn Moss and Alice Scherer, Abrams 1993
• Ornament Magazine. Spring Issue, 1993
• Eye of the Artist. Applause Feature Article, Skagit Valley Herald, 1993

• Northwest Designer Craftsmen
• Friends of Fiber Art
• The Northwest Bead Society
• Surface Design Association