Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop | Exhibition Tour of Common Ground: Mohammad Omer Khalil

Common Ground: Mohammad Omer Khalil presents a survey of work by artist Mohammad Omer Khalil (b. 1936, Khartoum, Sudan; lives and works in New York), a master printmaker, painter, and influential teacher whose career spans over six decades. Khalil belongs to the first generation of Sudanese modern artists and is celebrated as the first printmaker to emerge from the Arab world. From 1973 to 2012, Mohammed taught more than 1,000 students in etching at Pratt Institute, The New School, Columbia University, and New York University. Since 1970 Khalil has operated a printing atelier in New York City, printing editions for Louise Nevelson, Jim Dine, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Al Held, Sean Scully, and Emma Amos, among others.