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Julia has been a practicing art educator for 27 years. She began her teaching career as an artist-in-the-schools when she worked with LEAP, Imagination in Learning in San Francisco, CA and as an artist-in-the-museum with The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, and the Bay Area Children’s Museum in Sausalito, CA. She began her present work at San Francisco State in 1988. In this capacity, Julia teaches classes in art education for SF State undergraduate art majors and students in the multiple and single subject credential programs.
She has given many presentations on contemporary art and art education at National Art Education Association conferences, and at symposia in Seoul, South Korea, Taipei, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Athens, Greece. Her publications include articles in Studies in Art Education, Art Education and many anthologies. Her primary scholarship is in curriculum development, arts integration, the uses of contemporary art in art education and the intersection between creativity and cognition.
Julia has written many articles for national journals and books on current art education practice that address contemporary art and new ways of thinking in the field, focusing in particular on the integration of art with science and cultural studies. In her writings, she explores how and what people learn when they make art images and objects, and the ways the mind constructs knowledge and meaning through imagination and metaphor.
Her studio work also addresses these ideas. Her series of ‘Flashcards’ features words and images that do not match in a literal way to explore the bridges we make when we construct meaning. Present studio inquiries address the ways iconic forms embody ideas and develop understandings. In looking for iconic forms to embody notions of global popular culture, she has chosen the stem cell and the miter. Examples of this work are presented here.
Education
- Doctor of Education, University of San Francisco
- Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, University of Wisconsin
- Bachelor of Arts, Major in Art, George Washington University
