Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2010.       Women’s Caucus for Art International Video Competition, Chicago, Illinois.

2009- 2010.Apollo Risen, a solo, public art video installation for the city of Pittsfield Massachusetts.

2009.       Luxor International Painting Symposium Exhibition, Luxor, Egypt.

2009.       Music for Silent Films, screening Recipe for a Baked Alaska, Saratoga Arts Fest, Saratoga Springs, NY.

2009.       Gestures of Time: a series of events, screening at ArcheTime: a conference and exhibition dedicated to exploring artistic, academic and scientific concepts of Time. New York, New York.

2009.    Voices from the Land, a solo audio installation  and exhibit at Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation.

2009.       Sketchbooks, a traveling national group exhibition sponsored by ArtHouse.

2008.  In the Zone II, Looking for Betty, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT.

2008. Sublime Climate, premier showing of installation Pipeline in an international exhibition on issues of climate change, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA.

2007.  Fleet, An exterior sculpture installation at the Williams College Museum of Art, designed and directed as a collaboration with Williams College students, Williamstown, MA.

2007. Snap to Grid, Digital Art exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LA, CA.

2007. Fat of the Earth: a Meal in Four Courses, The Photo Center of the Capital District, Salon Night screening of video short, Troy, NY.

2007.   What is a Political Subject? Group Show at Montevideo, a Gallery for Video art,

            Milwaukee, WI.

2007.   Accumulated Absence, One-person exhibition. MFA in Visual Arts Graduate show. February, 2007, Montpelier, Vermont.

2006.   MISC. Video & Performance, October – November. On-going video screening, New York Studio Gallery, New York, New York.

2006.   Detained, Solo Exhibition, Video Installation, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA.

2006.   Homegrown Film Festival, Images Cinema, Screening Looking for Betty, Williamstown, MA.

2006.   Looking for Betty, Video Tableau Installation, Wilde Gallery, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.

2005.   Faces of Spring, Connecticut Society for Portrait Artists Annual Exhibition, Old Lyme, CT.

2004.   Pastel Society of America, 32nd Annual Pastel Exhibition for Pastels Only, The National Arts Club, New York, New York.

2003.    Pastel Society of America, Curator Series, Private Views: Places, Faces and Figures, The National Arts Club, New York, New York.

2001.    Kidspace at MassMoCA, a three-museum consortium, Open and Shut; Artists’ Doors, An Interactive sculptural installation, North Adams, MA.

2000.   Northwest Corner Artist Collective, Group Show, Williamstown, MA.

1997.   Premier Image Gallery, Milford Artist Guild Juried Show, Milford, MA.

1995.   Asian and Other Sojourns, Solo exhibition, La Petite Galerie, Annapolis, Maryland.

1993.   Poudre Valley Art League National Exhibition, Fort Collins, Colorado.

1993.   Shades of Pastel, Baltimore Pastel Society National exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland.

1992.   National Pastel Painting Exhibition, New Mexico Pastel Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1991.   Colorado Springs Art Guild 46th National Juried Fine Art Show, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1990.     Salon de Peinture et Estampe de Montreal, F.R.R.C. International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 

 

Education

 

2007.   MFA in Visual Arts. Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT.                               

1982.   Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. BA. Major in Studio Art. Magna Cum Laude. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

1981.   The Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing, Aix‑en‑Provence, France. Certificate d’Etude.

 

 

Museum and Teaching Appointments

 

2010.  Adjunct Faculty, Williams College, In the Blink of an Eye, Winter Study Term.
2007-present. Program and Event Coordinator, Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, Williamstown, MA.
2009.   Teaching Artist , Gestures in Vogue, a public installation with Williams College Students., Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA).
2009.   Adjunct Faculty, Williams College, Gesture of Time, Winter Study Term.

2008. Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Screenwriting.

2008. Adjunct Faculty, Williams College Art Department, The Animate Image, Winter Study Term.

2006- 2008. Artistic Consultant/Visiting Artist at the Williams College Museum of Art. Performed original and mythical stories. Designed and taught art programs for youth in a variety of arts from printmaking to video performance and animation. Directed participating undergraduates and graduate interns.  Designed Williams College Museum Family Days events.

2005.   Adjunct Faculty, Designed interdisciplinary curriculum and taught Time, Tropism, and the Visual Image, Winter Study Term 2005, Williams College, Williamstown MA.

2003.    Adjunct Faculty, Taught studio course, Pastel: Color and the Figure, Winter Study Term 2003, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.

2004.   Acting Director of Education, Williams College Museum of Art. Designed and directed all programs and publications of the Education Department. Supervised Undergraduate and Graduate Interns and “Museum Associates”.

1998-2005. Museum Educator, the Williams College Museum of Art. Planned and Implemented Family Days, After School Programs, Summer Camps. Designed and led tours for Elementary, High School, and College students and adult visitors. Taught tours and art teaching strategies to group of forty undergraduate “Museum Associates”.           

 

 

Lectures, Podcasts, and Residencies

 

2007-present. Producer of the Williams College Podcast: episodes include The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, with Deborah Rothschild and A Conversation with Jim Shepard and At Table with Darra Goldstein of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture.

2006-2008. Visiting Artist, Art installation Project annually with first-year Williams College students, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.

2007.    Visiting Artist at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. Taught series of pastel drawing classes.

2006.   Artist on Art, Guest Lecturer, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA.

2006.   Art, War, and Other Ruminations, Artist Lecture at Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA.

2001.  Artist-in-Residence, Brayton School, North Adams, MA. Through Kidspace at MASSMoCA.

 

 

Awards & Collections

 

2009.   Luxor International Painting Symposium, Paintings acquired by the Ministry of Culture, Egypt.

2008. Art and Industry Public Art Award, to create a long-term Video Installation for the city of Pittsfield, MA.

2008. Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant to create Voices from the Land, an audio Installation for Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation.

2004.  Burr and McCallum Architects, Williamstown, MA.

2000.  Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grant for Pedifacts Installation at Kidspace, MassMoCA.

1998.  Early Intervention Center, North Adams MA.

1997.  Premier Image Gallery, Milford MA. Milford Artist Guild, First Place Award.

1995.   United Technologies, Hartford, CT. Purchased series of pastel paintings.

1990.  Northside Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM. Richard Ball MD.

 

Current Representation

 

1990-present. La Petite Galerie, Annapolis, MD.

 

 

Publications & Illustrations

 

2005. The Valley Advocate, "Inside the Radius, Outside the Box," by Kendra Thurlow, July 17, 2008.

  2006. BerkshireFineArts.com, "The Politics of Space": Jane Hudson reviews Solo Show, Detained.

2005.   American Artist Magazine, May issue feature article, “Dynamic Subtlety: Releasing Gesture Through Color and Texture”.

2004.   Free Lance Illustration: Primary client: American Institutes for Research, Washington DC.

1999.   Looking at West African Masks; a Curriculum guide for Teachers, written, designed, illustrated, and edited by Julia Morgan, under the auspices of Williams College Museum of Art.

1997.   The Bear Who Missed the Boat, by Portia Weiskel, Illustrations by Julia Morgan. Published by Isles of Shoals Press, Boston, MA 1996.

1995.   Annapolis Life Style Magazine, January issue feature article, “The Ballad of Julia Morgan.”