Contemporary Prints - Traditional to Digital

curated by Essye Klempner 

Artists in conversation: July 12, 5-6:30pm

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Essye Klempner is a co-Director of EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. For nearly a decade, she has led their residency and educational program, partnerships with colleges, museums and institutions; and activated their archives of over 20,000 prints; and most recently, initiated the Blackburn Oral History Project funded by Hauser and Wirth Institute.

 

She earned an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ, and a BFA from School of Visual Arts, NYC. She has been an artist-in-residence at Woodstock, NY’s Byrdcliffe Guild; Hunter College in New York City; St. Mary’s College of Maryland; and East 40 Garden and Ceramic residency at Northampton Community College. She has exhibited at Hunter College, Rutgers University, the RISING URBANIST Conference, and Queens Museum’s Queens International: 2018 Biennial, Volumes.

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