Fleisher From a Distance: One of a Kind Screenprint Demonstration

This webinar will show the experimental qualities and immediacy of this one of a kind technique.  Have fun seeing the many different effects possible achieved with such simple, freeing and direct techniques: a departure from traditional screenprint stencils.

The demonstration will show how to screenprint images that are drawn and painted directly on the screen using Caran D’Ache water-soluble crayons and soft water-soluble graphite to create layers of drawings and textures. The resulting prints in the demonstration will also employ the screenprinting monotype technique of painting with screenprinting inks directly on the screen.

This demonstration is open to the public with a suggested donation of $10 but is limited to maximum number of 100 participants. Advanced registration is required. The tour will be hosted through Zoom, which can be accessed on desktop and laptop computers, as well as mobile devices. We highly recommend downloading the Zoom app to your device in advance. You will receive a URL to join the demonstration after you complete the registration process.

About the instructor:
Since she graduated in 1989 from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, her hometown, Christine Blair has had a long artistic and teaching career in all the mediums of printmaking. Christine finally fulfilled her dream of having her own screenprinting studio when she set it up in the basement of her own house in South Philadelphia in 2015.

Christine founded the Fleisher screenprint program in 1996. She also taught intermediate/advanced intaglio from 1993-2010 at Fleisher.

Besides being a teaching artist at Fleisher since 1993, Christine has taught all printmaking mediums and some drawing on the college level at PAFA, Moore College of Art & Design, Tyler School of Art of Temple University, and pre-college at Carnegie Mellon University, Tyler School of Art and University of the Arts.

Christine received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Tyler School of Art of Temple University; her B.F.A. in printmaking and drawing from Carnegie Mellon University; and studied at Parsons Paris School of Design, the American University, and École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Before coming to Philadelphia for graduate school, Christine worked in New York City as a printer’s assistant at Solo Press (currently named “Solo Impression”) and as a studio monitor at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop.

Christine has been an artist-in-residence at Fleisher, a Wind Challenge artist, and a Workspace Program Artist at Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc., New York, NY, where she was one of four national artists selected to produce new projects in handmade paper in collaboration with master papermaker Paul Wong.

Notably, Christine’s work has been exhibited at George Billis Gallery and Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, and the San Diego Museum of Art, CA. Locally, some noted spaces Christine has exhibited her work include: Nexus Gallery, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, The Painted Bride Gallery, Abington Art Center, Borowsky Gallery, Highwire Gallery, and The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ.

Find her on Instagram @christineblairart and www.christineblair.com.