Catherine Porter Prescott

Portrait painter Catherine Prescott was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Wisconsin. She has twice exhibited her portraits in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery. She received prizes in the following exhibitions: The Representational Art Conference (TRAC,) the Portrait Society of America, the Art Renewal Center, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Salmagundi Club. She was in the inaugural exhibition of Women Painting Women and many more WPW shows nationally. Other group shows were with Christians in Visual Arts (CIVA,) the Butler Museum, the Brauer Museum, the Phillips Museum, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and was the featured artist at the Susquehanna Museum portrait show. She has lectured and written on the place of portraits in contemporary art. In 2016, she was invited by Principle Gallery, Charleston, to paint the Honorable Reverend Clementa C. Pinckney and to exhibit with eight other painters their portraits of the nine who were killed at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The portraits were given to the victims’ families.

Prescott taught painting and drawing at Messiah University for 20 years, and has taught intermittently in Gordon College’s Orvieto Program abroad since 1998. Public collections include the National Portrait Gallery, the Governor’s Offices of the Pennsylvania State Capitol, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Gordon College, Messiah College, York College, and Fulton Bank. Catherine and her husband live and work in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and have two adult daughters. Visit her website to see her work.