About Christine

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BIO
Christine Klinger is a visual artist, writer, and art educator who has travelled extensively but feels most at home in her current village of Yellow Springs, Ohio.  She has a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Antioch College in Yellow Springs and a Master’s in Photojournalism from Ohio University in Athens.  She has written and photographed for fine art and journalism publications since 1980.
 
Christine has studied and worked in clay sculpture since 1995 and has participated in many solo and group exhibits.  She received a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Montgomery County (OH) Arts & Cultural District for 2009/2010 and has taught photography and sculpture at community art centers and colleges (including Antioch) in Ohio, South Carolina and California.   
 
Inspired by an abstract painter she met while living in California, Christine started painting in 2006. She was granted an Artist in Residency in Painting and Photography from the State of South Carolina’s A.I.R. Program in 2011, and has won awards for her photography, sculpture and painting.  Christine has shown her work in solo and group exhibits throughout Ohio, South Carolina and California, and has artwork in many private and corporate collections.
 
Christine was Gallery Coordinator at Rosewood Arts Center in Kettering, OH, for ten years. She was Assistant Director of the San Luis Obispo (CA) Arts Center, former owner/operator of Springs Gallery in Yellow Springs, OH, and a member of Village Artisans Cooperative Gallery in Yellow Springs. Christine recently served on the Board of Trustees of the Yellow Springs Arts Council until she started getting busier with Klinger Studio (at Nine Pines).  

Christine is also an art educator. She has taught art in community art centers, colleges and universities in South Carolina, California and Ohio (including Antioch College) for several years. Since 2011, she has taught in Yellow Springs at Springs Gallery, Klinger Studio, and Yellow Springs Community Library. She is open to teaching private and group classes or workshops in painting, photography and sculpture here at KLINGER STUDIO at Nine Pines in Yellow Springs: thestudio-ys.blogspot.com. Christine and Jim will be looking for other instructors - and other subjects as well - in visual, literary, performing arts, etc. We are also considering renting our small and larger spaces as well. More on this later!​

STATEMENT
As an Ecologist, Christine attempts to leave a small footprint on the Earth. She supports the mission of The Center for Biological Diversity. Reading from their site: "The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction." To learn more about the great work CBD does, please visit their site:  ​www.biologicaldiversity.org.
On the local level, the Glen Helen Nature Preserve is a fine environmental organization the Klingers believe in and support.  Established (and formerly owned and maintained) by Antioch College in 1929, the 1,000-acre nature preserve is in the heart of Yellow Springs. It is now owned and maintained by the non-profit Glen Helen Association. To learn more about this wonderful place and the people who care for it, please visit www.glenhelen.org.

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​ Christine in the Painting Studio

PLEASE NOTE:
All artwork, designs, and photographic images on this site are originals by C. Klinger and subject to copyright laws. Copyright 2003 and beyond.  All Rights Reserved.  Thanks for respecting this.

                   

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