She has taught at University of Wisconsin-Stout, Peters Valley in New Jersey and at Penland School of Crafts. She is the recipient of the 2016 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award and was a SNAG Emerging Artist at SOFA Chicago. Batchelder has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at the Heidi Lowe Gallery in Delaware and the Gallery at Reinstein|Ross in New York.