Julie Zahn

Painter and printmaker Julie Zahn was raised in Bethesda, Maryland. She spent a couple of years painting landscapes and still-lifes in rural Japan, after which she enrolled in the 4-year Certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She was awarded a travel scholarship upon graduation and spent a year in Kyoto working with an antique screen restorer. Toward the end of her stay there, she discovered katazome or Japanese stencil dyeing, a paste-resist technique traditionally used for textiles. Attracted by its painterly quality, she adapted it to paper using acrylics and pigments with a soybean binder, creating paintings with a printmaking element. She uses katazome, woodcut and painting to create her distinct, recognizable work. Her studio is in East Mt. Airy and she exhibits regularly in Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

 

Website: www.juliezahn.net

Instagram: @juliezahnar

 

 

My goal as a teacher is to not only introduce my students to new materials and techniques, but to demystify them and use them in innovative ways. I work to help students develop their own style and, for more experienced artists, investigate how to incorporate these new materials and techniques into their existing (but evolving) studio practices.