About The Artist

Pat Hutchinson received a B.A. in Art at Gettysburg College in 1970 and an M.F.A in Painting from the Pennsylvania State Unviersity in 1972. She painted, showed her work and taught art at Trenton State College, Mercer County Community College and Ocean County College for ten years before beginning a doctoral program in Design and Technology at New York University.

She spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar doing doctoral research on design-based education at Oxford University, before receiving her Ph.D. in 1987. She spent five years at Drexel University, where she created and served as Editor-in-Chief of TIES Magazine before moving to The College of New Jersey to direct the NSF-funded Children Designing and Engineering™ Project.

During the past five years she has divided her time between educational projects and a renewed focus on art. She currently serves as a founding trustee and chair of the Belmar Arts Council. She is also an exhibiting member of the Guild of Creative Artist in Shrewsbury, NJ, and the Shore Insititute of Comtemporary Arts in Long Branch, NJ.

She shows her work at B Square Gallery in Philadelphia and Oceanside Gallery in Belmar , NJ, and has exhibited in a number of juried shows in the New Jersey area.