Fiber Arts

Printmaking

Contact Information

e-mail:
www.alysecbernstein.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Education

1994
Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Certificate of Art

1989
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
Associate Degree

1986 – 1988
Art Students League of New York, New York, NY

Continuing Education
2003
Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY
Alternative Lithography Workshop

2001
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Aluminum Plate Workshop

Honors and Awards

2003
Independence Foundation Grant
Independent Travel And Study In Japan

2001
Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship
Support For Study At Tamarind Institute

1995
Philadelphia Mayor’s Award

Bertha Anolic Travel Scholarship
Independent Study In Israel, Awarded By Gratz College

1994
William Emlen Cresson Memorial Scholarship
European Travel And Study, Awarded By PAFA

Philadelphia Print Club Prize

Henry C. Pratt Memorial Prize In Printmaking

1993
Morris Blackburn Print Prize

1993, 1994, 1995
Robert T. Wickersham Prize In Lithography

1989
Painting And Drawing Studies Award

Art History Studies Award

Professional Experience

2004 – present
Site Relations Coordinator, Solutions for Progress, Philadelphia PA

Philadelphia Print Collaborative, Philadelphia, PA

2000 – present
Instructor, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Development Assistant, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA

2003
Instructor, Hussian School Of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Workshop Instructor, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

2000 – 2004
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
-Representative To Philadelphia Print Collaborative

1992 – 2002
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
-Community Partnerships, Assistant to Coordinator, 1999 – 2001
-Philadelphia Teaching Artist In Residence, July 1999 – 2002

Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
-Apprentice, 1998
-Assistant To Project Coordinators, 1997 – 1998

Friends Select School, Philadelphia, PA
- K Through 4 Art Teacher, 1997
-After School Teacher, 1995 – 1997

Museum Of American Art, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
-Lithography Workshop, August 1995
-Teacher’s Assistant: Sculpture 1992 – 1993, Printmaking 1993 – 1994
-Assistant To Models And Props Coordinator, 1992 – 1993

Selected Exhibitions

2006
WAR!T, MBN Studios, Philadelphia, PA

2005-2006
Exhibit 2, InLiquid at the Bride, Painted Bride Art Center Café Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
North American Print Biennial, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Juror: Joann Moser Senior Curator, Graphic Arts Smithsonian Museum Of Art

2004
We Three, The Bean Café, Philadelphia, PA

Dear Fleisher: 4 x 6 Inches of Art, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibition to Benefit The Education Programs at FAM

Bangain USA: First Annual Summer Juried Printmaking Exhibition, Flusso Gallery, New York, NY

Several Steps Removed, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
In Conjunction With The Big Nothing Initiative Through The ICA and The PPC

Art in The Italian Market, Di Bruno Brothers Pronto, Philadelphia, PA

Fiber Artists: Philadelphia, An Exhibition of Texture and Technique, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2003
Practice and Technique: Aikido and Lo Shu Prints, The Bean Café, Philadelphia, PA

So FAM, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Fashion Statement: Clothing With Content, Rye Art Center, Rye, NY

PAFA Juried Alumni Show, Gallery 1301, Philadelphia, PA

The Community of Artists, Duprée Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Lithos, The Bean Café, Philadelphia, PA

4th in the 3rd, The Clay College, Millville, NJ

Fantastic Garments, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Pairing of Peers: Artists Invite, The Suzanne Fleisher and Ralph Joel Roberts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Annual Faculty Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2002 – 2003
Night and Day, The Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Re-Living Room, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

Souvenir, The Bean Café, Philadelphia, PA

Looking Back: Looking Forward A Retrospective Exhibition, Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, PA

Nexus Heads South, Dundalk Gallery, Baltimore, MD

From Stone & Plate: Contemporary Prints from The Tamarind Institute, The Conley Gallery, California State University Fresno, CA

Annual Faculty Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2001
0 + 4= New Members Exhibition, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA

Dissential Curatorial Services Treasure Hunt, On and Around The Streets & Business Of Old City, Philadelphia, PA

Junk Food: Solo Faculty Exhibit, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Smoker Prints, The Bean Café, Philadelphia, PA

Whim Wham, Doom Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

Figuratively Prophetic, Doom Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

Annual Faculty Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2000 – 2001
Artist’s Boxes, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

2000
Wearable Art Show, Flinn Library, Greenwich, CT

Printmaking Invitational, Camden Community College, Blackwood, NJ

Gallery in the Garden, Hawk Mountain, PA

Peep Show, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Curator and Exhibitor

Elephant Art, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Member’s Show, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Printmakers of The Fleisher Art Memorial, Borders Book Shop, Philadelphia, PA

Annual Faculty Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Emerging Fiber Artists, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1999 – 2000
Focus on Fibers, Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

1999
A Gathering of Women, Traveling Exhibition
Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, PA; The Free Library Of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

Staff Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Defining The Edge Fashion Show, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

1996 – 1996
Arf! Art, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA

1995
Lost Dreams On Canvas, State Capital Building, Harrisburg, PA

Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1994
Lost Dreams on Canvas, US Senate Building, Washington DC

Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1993
Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1989
Annual Student Exhibition, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY

1988
New York Area Art Students Exhibition, National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NY

Other

Costume Designs
1997
Mama Blue & Papa Anthropic, Kumquat Theater, Philadelphia PA

Green Girl, Movement Theater International, Philadelphia PA

1996
The Loafer, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA

Mercury, The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA