Julie graduated from Kendal School of Design in Michigan with a degree in Illustration. She then went to work at Hallmark Cards for the next 10 years as a greeting card designer. Wanting to move to the southwest, she then left Hallmark and moved to Santa Fe New Mexico where she continued to do freelance illustration. She stayed there off and on trading her time between California and New Mexico. It was in California that she went to California College of the Arts and studied fine metalsmithing and ceramics, but still continued to freelance illustrate. After spending 22 years freelancing illustration, she decided to turn her focus on mixed media, teaching and creating art to sell. She then moved to the tiny town of Bisbee AZ where she opened her own boutique selling her art work, teaching one on one classes and selling mixed media art supplies.
You can contact her through her email address.