Christine N. Blair
Christine N. Blair
Workspace Program Resident 1995
About the Artist
Christine Blair (received her MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art of Temple University and B.F.A. in printmaking and drawing from Carnegie Mellon University. She also 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 also been an artist-in-residence at Fleisher Art Memorial as a Wind Challenge Recipient and a Workspace Program Artist at Dieu Donné.
Notably, Christine’s work has been exhibited at George Billis Gallery, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, and the San Diego Museum of Art, CA. Local exhibitions include The Philadelphia Art Alliance, The Painted Bride Gallery, Abington Art Center, Borowsky Gallery, Highwire Gallery, and The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ.
Christine founded the Fleisher’s screenprinting program in 1996. She also taught intermediate and 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.
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. (Source: Fleisher Art Memorial)
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