Fine art Inspired by Nature: White Line Woodcuts, Illustration in watercolor and pencil, Photography
About me-Artists statement and Resume
Theresa Kehrer
Artist Statement:
I am trained as a geologist and as a fine arts artist. Both of these disciplines instilled a love of the outdoors. Growing up in a family with scientists, I was fascinated by the scientific illustrations in their books and was inspired to learn highly technical skills in drawing. My science background and love of nature influence much of the work I do today, desiring not to just depict a subject but to narrate its story.
I have been making white line woodcut prints since 2019 and have carved and printed more than fifty wood blocks.There is something magical about taking a piece of wood and turning it into a print and I love the art form.I approach each print as an individual work, as one would do with a painting, and my works are increasingly detailed.I have developed a Provincetown printmaking style that is uniquely my own.
Utilizing more than one genre comes naturally for me as a graphic artist, and while they seem to be a departure from one act to another, good drawing skills unite them all. I enjoy the differences in various media, for example, bold color in a print versus greyscale in a charcoal drawing. Nature is a common thread in my work, as are themes of beauty, joy or whimsy because these things bring order to a chaotic world.I’m captivated by subjects as large as a rocky coast or as small as the way a leaf curls when it falls to the ground.I thrill to the challenge of a complex subject and this is reflected in my current work.
Selected Exhibitions:
2025_ACPS Fall Members Exhibition The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Sy Hakim Memorial Woodcut award
2025_SAGA mini Gems, Union Square, NYC
2025_SAGA Members Show, Ink and Impressions, Housatonic Museum of art, CT
2025_IMPRINT 2025, International Juried Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2025_ACPS Summer Members Show, Eclipse Center for Creative Community, Lansdale, PA -Honorable Mention for print "The Bell House".
2025_ACPS Spring Member Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown PA
2024_SAGA 89th Annual Members Exhibition-Governors Island NYC
2024_SAGA 3rd Annual Mini Gems Juried Exhibition-SAGA Gallery NYC
2024_Rehoboth Art League-11th Regional Juried Biennial Exhibition-2 entries accepted
2024_International Society of Experimental Artists-Innovations 2024, 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition
2024_Salmagundi Club NY 46th Annual Open Painting, Sculpture and Graphics Juried Exhibition
2024_Art Fest, Camp Rehoboth_Annual Juried Show
2024_Rehoboth Art League 9th Annual Regional Juried Photography Exhibition
2023_Hudson Valley Art Association, 90th Annual National Juried Exhibition
2023_Art Fest, Camp Rehoboth_Annual Juried show
2025, 2024, 2022, 2021 Lewes Artists Studio Tour
2022_84th Annual Members Fine Art Exhibition_Rehoboth Art League
2020_Rehoboth Art League 9th Regional Juried Biennial Exhibition-2 prints accepted
2003_Lynden Gallery Elizabethtown PA_October 2003 "Earth Art" with Brad Strohman
2002_Lancaster Galleries_Group Ceramics exhibit May 2002
2002-2003_Women's Expressions_2002-2003 National Invitational Juried Show
2003-2005_Art Walk Lancaster
2001_Group Artists Exhibition (3)_Lancaster County Art Association, September 2001
1998-2002_Lancaster Museum of Art
1998-2002_Open Exhibitions_Lancaster County Art Association (LCAA)
2002_Habitat For Humanity Fundraiser for Lancaster Country Day School
2000_Solo Exhibition Lancaster PA, June 2000 "A Celebration of Art"
Awards & Honors:
2025_Sy Hakim Memorial Woodcut award, "Christmas at Longwood"
2025_ACPS, Honorable Mention, "TheBell House"
2016_Crochet Guild of America (CGOA) International Design competition, Thread category, Second place
2014_CGOA International Design Competition, second place
2011_Editor's Choice CROCHET magazine
2001_LCAA Spring Membership, Honorable Mention, Watercolor
Millersville University BFA program, Robert Andriulli (painting), John Markowitz (design), Robert A. Nelson, Gordon R. Wise (drawing and illustration)
2024_Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle Washington. Woodblock Printmaking, Charlie Spitzack
2024_Delaware Art Museum, Monotype, Linocut and Drypoint, Caroline Brown
Watercolor workshops, Ann DeLaurentis Lancaster PA
Sundance Art Studios 1995-2002. Studied with Linda Tay'nah'za (monotype printmaking), Dennis Zupan (ceramics), Liberty Blake, Jann Haworth (illustration and design)
LCAA Monotype printmaking, Linda Taynahza 2001-2002
Delaware Contemporary (DCCA) Monotype printmaking Mitch Lyons CGOA Textile and design workshops 2009-2016. Studied with Lily Chin, Doris Chan, Susan Lowman
Professional Juried memberships:
2025_(ACPS) American Color Print Society
2024_(IGOR) International Guild of Realism
2024_(SAGA) Society of American Graphic Artists
2021-2025 Lewes Artists Studio Tour
For Information about teaching experience please contact me directly.
Hobbies: Classically trained singer, Lyric soprano. Sang with the Lancaster Symphony Chorus (Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Carmina Burana, Rutter Requiem, An evening with Cole Porter), Many church solos, Wilmington Symphony (An Evening With Cole Porter), and at Carnegie Hall with the Manhattan Philharmonic Orchestra (Carmina Burana), Jo Ann Faletta Conductor.
