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Charlotte R. Yudis
(1939–2007)
B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Temple University; studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
Charlotte R. Yudis, dear friend and supporter of the Fleisher Art Memorial, passed away on January 9, 2007.
Charlotte R. Yudis was an instructor of printmaking, bookmaking, and papermaking at the Fleisher Art Memorial from 1991 through 2006, and part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Education Department since 1994. Ms. Yudis had also taught at the Moore College of Art & Design and Duke University.
Some of the venues in which Yudis exhibited her work include: Fleisher Art Memorial (as both a faculty member and a Challenge artist), The Creative Artists Network, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Painted Bride Art Center, Esther M. Klein Gallery at the University City Science Museum, Florida Printmakers Society, Muse Gallery, Hunterdon Museum of American Art, Louisiana State University, and many others.
During her career, Yudis received several honors for her work, including a Fleisher Challenge Exhibition, a Creative Artists Network service grant, a Print & Paper Fellowship from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, a Geraldine R. Dodge Grant, and a Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship. Ms. Yudis has work included in the following collections: the Noyes Museum, Montclair Museum, New Jersey Council for the Arts, Jersey City Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, and others.
Friends, family and associates are invited to attend a memorial service for Charlotte Yudis on Sunday, January 28, 2007, at 4:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary of the Fleisher Art Memorial. The Yudis family has asked that contributions in Charlotte’s memory be given to Fleisher.
Image: Blood Series No. 17, 1999, photopolymer etching with chine collé