Julie Zahn
"Serenading the Moon."

A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Julie Zahn has exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum’s Annual Juried Show - among many one-person and group shows in recent years. Her commissions have included woodblock prints for the Washington (DC) Area Printmakers Calendar and for a recent PAFA Women’s Committee calendar.

One of Julie’s many awards was the J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarship that took her to Japan, where she was apprenticed to a restorer of antique screens in Kyoto from whom she learned the traditional art of katazome – also called stencil dyeing.

Julie’s mixed media paintings are a unique hybrid of cross-cultural techniques. She combines printmaking, woodcut and painting with katazome - which employs a resist paste applied through a stencil, left to dry, then, once painted, is washed off, revealing the surface beneath.

As decorative as Julie’s work is playful, it also reflects - with vivid colors and practiced hand - the deeper aspects of a relationship to nature.

"Nasturtiums and Rabbit #2"



"Serenading the Moon"

"A Vertical Raised Bed #1"

"A Vertical Raised Bed #2"

"A Vertical Raised Bed #3"

"A Hop, Skip and A Jump"

"Irises"

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