Commonplace; essay and images by Christine Welch, conclusion by John R. Stilgoe. Published by The Center for American Places 2004, distributed by The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 1-930066-21-X
Publications
Selected Exhibitions
84th Annual International Competition: Photography,The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA , 2010
Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA, 2009.
Outside the Centers/On the Edge, Kutztown University, PCA&D, Erie Art Museum, Samek Art Gallery, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, traveling exhibit 2006-2007.
Noteworthy, Award winning artists from 25 years of photography exhibitions, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ, 2005.
Paradise Paved, The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.
Commonplace, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, solo, 2005.
Commonplace, Museum im Westrich der Verbandsgemeinde Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, solo, 2004.
Things Change, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, solo, 2003.
Reviewing Photography, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.
Photography 21, Perkins Center, Moorestown, NJ, 2002.
From the Kitchen Garden, The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA, 2002.
Rau in Context: Part Two, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA, 2001.
Christine Welch, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, solo, 2001.
Photography, Atlantic City Art Center, Atlantic City, NJ, 2000.
Commonplace, P.A.B.A., New Haven, CT, solo, 1999.
Photography, Historic Yellow Springs, Yellow Springs, PA, 1999.
Zone I, Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, 1999.
The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photography, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1999.
York Arts, York, PA, 1998.
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 1997.
O.K. Harris, NYC, NY, Solo, 1996.
1996 Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, NY, 1996.
Color Now, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, 1996.
Photography V, Perkins Center, Moorestown, NJ, 1996.
Contemporary Prospect, Historic Yellow Springs, Yellow Springs, PA, 1994.
Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA, solo, 1994.
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, solo, 1993.
Lois Greenfield and Christine Welch, Blatant Image/Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992.
Level Three, Philadelphia, PA, Solo, 1991.
David Moss and Christine Welch,PSA&D, Lancaster, PA, 1990.
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, solo, 1988.
David Moss and Christine Welch, Smucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg, PA, 1988.
Fantasy, Illusion and the Grotesque, Sykes Gallery, Millersville, PA, 1988.
Social Life, Center for Creative Photography, Woodstock, NY, 1988.
A Mistress for Pantaloon, Janvier Gallery, Newark, DL, Solo, 1987. In Plain Sight, 1986.
Society for Photographic Education National Convention, Baltimore, MD, 1986.
American Consulate, Hamburg, West Germany, 1986.
Marion Art, Lancaster, PA, 1985.
Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, 1983.
The Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1983.
Pennsylvania Photographers III, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA. 1983.
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 1983.
Added Color, Virginia Beach Arts Center, Virginia Beach, VA, 1983.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 1982.
Fourth Street Gallery, NYC, NY, Solo, 1982.
The Photography Place, Philadelphia, PA, 1982.
Photo-Flo, University of Texas, Arlington, TX. 1982
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1982.
Collections
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. PA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Johnson and Johnson Corporate Collection
Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Maine Photographic Workshops Collection, Rockport, MA
Photo Metro, San Francisco, CA
Photo Review, Langhorne, PA
Ivan Karp, New York, New York
Education
M.F.A.; photography. University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.1982.
B.A.; religious studies. Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1971.
Resident, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine: August 1980.
International Center for Photography, New York, New York: Spring 1977.
Bibliography
Paradise Paved, The Painted Bride Art Center, curator: S. Perloff, April 2005
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/25/2005
American Photo on Campus, January 2005, Interor Life, Mentors, pp 32
Einfuhrung zur Ausstellung ‘Commonplace’ im Museum im Westrich der Verbandsgemeinde Ramstein-Miesenbach, 24 Oktober 2004, by Von Martin Haen Rheinpfals, 10/26/04
Rau in Context, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, curator: Karen Serago, 2001
New Haven Advocate, 6/10/99
Lancaster New Era, 6/10/99
Courier-Post, 1/26/96Photography: Contemporary Prospect, Historic Yellow Springs, curator: S. Perloff, 1994
Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/11/94
The Photo Review, Summer 1991, Winter 1997, Spring 2000
Photopaper, summer 1992
New Art Examiner, Oct. 1983
Washington Post, 8/11/83
Washington Times, 8/4/83
Awards
Florence Whistler Fish Award, 2010
Barbara Millstein, curator of photographs, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Photography 21, 2002.
Patrick Murphy, curator ICA, Color Now, 1996.
Philip Brookman, curator, Corcoran Gallery, Photography V, 1996.
Merry Foresta, curator, Museum of American Art, Photo Review, 1996.
Nominee: Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship. Rockefeller, Aetna and N.E.A fellowship for outstanding emerging artists, 1982.
Artist/Presenter
Bucknell University, 2007
Perkins Center: Lecturer. 2003
SPE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, 1999