Blair is also a public artist with many public and private art installations. For twenty years she maintained a downtown ceramic studio, but her career path began to change in 1994 when she received a three-year California Arts Council Artist-in-Residency grant to establish and teach in “The Splash Zone,” an indoor-outdoor ceramic studio at Peabody Charter School. Built with vision and generous community support, the Splash Zone is still going strong today, helping students tell their stories through the ancient art of clay.

Loss of her studio created a pivot point for Blair, and in year 2000 she started to teach music in the elementary classroom. She also gave professional development workshops integrating music with standards- based curriculum, and since 2002 has been sharing her curriculum “The Music Box: Music in the Elementary Classroom” with UCSB’s Master of Education program. She’s taught summer art classes for Arts at Laguna since 1995. She retired from Isla Vista Elementary School in 2015 after 12 happy years teaching both music and art.

Blair continues with her own art projects, especially enjoying large chalk street paintings, a discipline she has embraced for the past 35 years.

In addition to her service on the GEF board, Blair is currently the president of the Looker Foundation, a family foundation based in Los Angeles, founded in 1995. She is a fluent Spanish speaker.