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

2008

• "Solo Show," Tibbott Gallery, Nashville, TN
• "Fiber Biennial," Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• "Bodies Show," Penland Gallery, Penland, NC

2007

• "Jewelry By Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• "Celebrating the Art of Adornment," Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• "Fillette," Viscosity Gallery, Seattle, WA
• "Summer Faculty Exhibition," Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
• "2007 Bead Invitational" PISMO Gallery, Denver, CO
• "Fiber National" Landcaster Museum of Art, Landcaster, PA

2006

• "Fiber Biennial," Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• "Life Insight," Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY
• "Glass Bead," National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
• "Making Sense," Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
• "Palate & Palette," Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
• "Ethos," Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
• "Contrasts: A Glass Primer," Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

2005

• "Two Hands, Twenty Years and a Billion Beads," Bellevue Arts Museum, Solo Show, Bellevue, WA
• "Magnificent Extrravagance: Artists and Opulence," Wustum Art Museum, Racine, WI
• "Northwest Designer Craftsman at 50," Traveling show organized by NW Designer Craftsman

2004

• Solo Show, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• "Northwest Designer Craftsman at 50," Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
• "Mardi Gras A Museo," Museo Gallery, Langley, WA
• "The Perfect Collection," Fuller Museum of Art, Brocton, MA
• "Constructions & Compositions," Virginia Breier, San Francisco, CA

2003

• "The Seeds of Beads," Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
• Craft Biennial, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
• Julie: Artisans' Gallery, New York, NY
• Familiar Artists, Penland, NC

2002-2005

• The Artful Teapot: 20th-Century Expressions From the Kamm Collection, traveling show organized by Exhibitions International,
  New York City, NY

2002

• Catching The Light, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
• El Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano, San Jose, Costa Rica. This show travels in Costa Rica through 2004.

2001

• Documents Northwest: Sewn, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2000 – 02

• Bead International 2000, traveling show, curated by The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH

1999 – 00

• Beadz!: Contemporary Bead Artists, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
• Men of the Cloth, traveling show, curated by Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, CO

1998

• Bead Works, The Dairy Barn, Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH

1997 – current

• Represented by Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
• SOFA Chicago, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1997 – 00

• Pure Vision: American Bead Artists Invitational Show, traveling show, managed by Exhibits USA, curated by Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1997

• Stitchers & Beaders: America’s Best Invitational, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
• Passion Afire, Glass Exhibit Invitational, curated by Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
• Seed Bead from Three Points of View, Embellishment Conference, Austin, TX

1995 - 00

• Rebellious Bead, exhibitor - traveling beadwork exhibition held in conjunction with the Third International Bead Conference in Bethesda, MD

1992 - 98

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

Juries

• 2004 The Philadelphia Museum Museum of Art, Craft Show,
  Philadelphia, PA
• 2002 The Audacious Bead, Bead Museum DC, Washington D.C.
• 2001 Folklife, Seattle, WA
• 1999 Bead Works 2000, The Dairy Barn, Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
• 1998 Beads & Beyond, summer competition and exhibition
• 1997 Goldstein Gallery Bead Show, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• 1995 – 00 Rebellious Bead, traveling beadwork exhibition, juror. Exhibition initiated at Bead Conference then traveled to Bellevue Art Museum for Ubiquitous Bead II

• 2008 Artist Residency, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, NC
• 2008 - 2011 Artist Residency, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
• 2007 Scholarship Winner, Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood, WA
• 2006 Doug & Dale Anderson Scholarship Winner, Pilchuck Glass School, Pilchuck, WA
• 2003 Craft Biennial Merit Award Winner, administered by Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
• Purchase Grant Award, Portland Bead Society, Portland, OR
• 2002 Penland Visiting Artist, Penland, NC
• 2001 Artist in Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
• 2000 Artist Trust award recipient from the Washington State Arts Commission
• Bead Society of Greater Chicago grant recipient
• One of eight nominated for the Lillian Elliott Award by 3 anonymous notables in the field of Fiber Art
• 1999 Northwest Bead Society grant recipient
• Portland Bead Society grant recipient
• 1997 Received Betty Bowen/Poncho Recognition Award, administered by the Seattle Art Museum
• 1995 Northwest Bead Society grant recipient
• 1994 –95 Two-time recipient of full scholarship to Pilchuck Glass School

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

• 2008 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, workshop
• 2008 Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC, lecture
• 2008 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, workshop
• 2008 Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood, WA, workshop
• 2008 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA, workshop
• 2007 Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts, Victoria, Canada, workshop
• 2007 Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN, workshop
• 2007 Geelong Forum, Geelong, Australia, workshop
• 2007 Aotearoa Textiles Regional Forum, New Zealand, workshop
• 2007 Bead & Beadwork Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, lecture, workshop
• 2006 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, workshop
  SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, IL, lecture
  Glass Art Society Conference, St Louis, MO, lecture
• 2005 Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, lecture
  Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, workshop
• 2004 Bead Society of Greater Chicago, Chicago, IL, lecture
  The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, lecture
  Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, lecture and workshop
• 2003 Gardner Museum, Toronto, Canada, workshop and lecture
• 2002 Bead Society of Orange County, Los Angeles, CA, lecture
  Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, lecture and workshop
  Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, lecture and workshop
• 2001 Los Angeles Bead Society, Los Angeles, CA, lecture
• 2000 Fiber Forum, Mittagong, New South Wales, Australia, lectures and workshops
• 1999 Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN, workshop
  Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Seattle, WA, lecture
  Mid-Atlantic Fiber Arts, (MAFA) Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, deliver lecture and workshop
  The Great British Bead Show, Various venues in England, deliver lecture and workshop
• 1998 Friends of Fiber Art, lecture, Five Perspectives SOFA Chicago
• 1997 Embellishment Conference, Houston, TX, workshops, keynote lecturer
• 1997 - 00 Coupeville Arts Center, Coupeville, WA, workshops, teach contemporary beading techniques (March 1997 - Fiber Forum keynote lecturer)
• 1995 - 03 Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota, Duluth Campus, conduct five-day intensive workshop, slide presentation, lecture
• 1995 Agnes Scott Woman's College, Decatur, GA, workshops, taught contemporary beading techniques
• 1993 - 97 Third International Bead Conference, Washington DC, "Beads Through the Eye of the Collector" - lecture, workshop and slide presentation
• 1991 - 01 workshops and lectures, nationally and internationally, details available upon request

• 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
• 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
• Fiberarts Design Book #7. edited by Susan Mowery Kieffer, 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
• 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 Beadworkers Guild. "Face to Face with David Chatt" Sue Richardson, September 1999
• American Craft Magazine. Featured in Portfolio section April/May 1997
• Bead Art. Featured artist, edited by Alice Korach, Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1998
• 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

• The Best in Contemporay Beadwork: Bead International 2000. Jean Campbell, editor, 2000

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