Julia is a Brooklyn-based printmaker, painter, tattooist, illustrator, pattern designer, muralist, and explorer of any craft that catches her curiosity.

Throughout a 3-year career in climate organizing, she came to grips with the unnatural, unjust, capitalist reality in which we exist. She reimagined success as simply living an authentic and wholehearted life. And so Julia left one line of work for another that was calling for her, holding the same goal at heart — to do her part in building another, better world.

Julia’s art pulls color and comfort from imaginings and experience, often using patterns and palettes of the ’70s for a sense of nostalgia and relief. Sometimes her art is a playful escape from late-stage capitalism; sometimes, it is her most powerful form of action. And sometimes, before she can control herself, it becomes both: A garden growing whimsically beneath a sky of fire, a happy cow lounging in an unending dome of coral.

Most often, Julia finds herself escaping, playing up a quirky, colorful reality or showcasing the simple joys of life. But she understands that her purpose in this life is to fight for social and environmental justice, with art as her most noble tool. As Julia builds her practice, she seeks to bring these two realms close together — to imagine and manifest her belief that another world is possible.