About the Artist

Julia was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941. She has been involved with music from age five and performed on television at age seven. After graduation from Nicolet High School, she went on to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. where she earned her Undergraduate B.M.E. and Graduate M.M. degrees. She taught at The Rymer School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, St. Mary’s College in Winona, Minnesota and at the University Of Arkansas at Little Rock and private piano for 25 years. She is a past President of both the Minneapolis Piano Teacher’s Association and the Piano Teacher’s Association of Central Arkansas and continues to adjudicate piano competitions. She moved to Westchester in the Fall of 1989 and took up Fine Art seriously and has served as the first Chairman of the Katonah Museum Artist’s Association from 1990-1992 and is currently a member of the KMAA Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Pound Ridge Art Guild and has shown regionally in juried exhibitions for the last fifteen years.

Artist's Statement

There is a poem by Robert Henri written in 1923 called “The Art Spirit” that says better than I can what caused me to take up painting.

There are moments in our lives

There are moments in a day,

When we seem to see beyond the usual

Such are the moments of our greatest happiness

Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

It is these special moments that I choose to put to a canvas. Make of my art what you will.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Twin Cities Watercolor Society Competition & Exhibit, Minneapolis, Mn. 1986 HONORS, 1987 HONORS

Lewisboro Artists Past & Present, Golden’s Bridge, NY. 1991

Food As Art – Scarborough Gallery, Chappaqua, NY. 1992

Kent Art Association Members Selected Show Kent, CT. 1992

Kent Art Association Spring Show & President’s Show, Kent, CT. 1993

Katonah Museum Artist’s Association Juried Exhibition, Katonah, NY. 1993

Westchester Land Trust - Art & the Environment Juried Show, Katonah, NY. 1993

Art Society of Old Greenwich Member’s Show, Riverside Yacht Club

HONORS

1st Place, Greenwich, CT. 1994

Mamaroneck Guild of Artists National Juried Exhibition

Westbeth Gallery, Greenwich Village, New York City 1994

Katonah Museum Artist’s Association – Juried Exhibition, Katonah, NY. 1996, 1998

Spectrum – New Canaan Art Society Juried Exhibition, Pound Ridge, NY. 1997

Kent Art Association – President’s Juried Show, Kent, CT. 1997

Small Works Show – Pound Ridge Guild of Artists, Hiram Halle Library – Pound Ridge, NY. 1998

Oil & Water – Pound Ridge Guild of Artists, Pound Ridge, NY. 1998

Katonah Museum Artist’s Assoc/ Northern Westchester Center –Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY. 2000, 2001

Kent Art Association – Juried Spring Show, Kent, CT. 2003

Westchester Community College – ‘Visions of Nature’-Selected Show, Valhalla, NY. Fall 2003

KMAA/Northern Westchester Hospital – Selected Show, Mt. Kisco, NY. Fall 2003

Pound Ridge Art Guild Show at Hiram Hallie Library – Selected Show, Pound Ridge, NY . November 2003

WCC Visions of Nature- Westchester Community College- Selected Show, Pound Ridge Art Guild Bienalle 2007

Women’s Civic Club of Katonah Beaux Arts Exhibit 2007

Purdy’s Homestead Restaurant – Solo Show 2007

Katonah Museum Artists Association/ Sculpture Barn Juried Exhibition 2008

Katonah Museum Artists Assoc at Ridgefield Guild of Artist Juried Exh. 2009

Pound Ridge Guild selected show at Ward Pound Reservation 2009

Beaux Arts Exhibition at Katonah Library 2009

Solo Exhibition at Museum Gallery – Beth El Synogogue

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Kathryn & Steve Nickles

Judy & George Paletta

Judy & Ed Polcer

Terry & Dan Emmy

Sherry & Marv Lasky

Norma & Lewis Myers

Karen & Paul Levy

Wendy & Jim Redlin

Cindy Pope & Don Doernberg

University of Arkansas At Little Rock Law School

Norman and Honey Kurtz

Judy & Tony Evnin

Joanne Mathews

Lady Bird Johnson

Jerry & Mary Cosgrove

Margery Jassey

Athena Kimball

Richard & Carole Tunick

Victoria Berk

Toria & Sven Grasshoff

Judy Paletta

Dr. Michael Schoolman

Margaret Brown

Ben Gershman

ART ORGANIZATIONS

Twin Cities Watercolor Society

Katonah Museum Artists Association,  Chair 1991-1993

Katonah Museum Artists Assoc. Advisory Board  1991-

Katonah Museum of Art , Co- Chair  of Tri-State Juried Exhibition – 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001

Art Society of Old Greenwich

Kent Art Association, Putnam Arts Council

Pound Ridge Art Guild

EDUCATION

Nicolet High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin College of Music- studied with Florence Bettray Kelly – piano

Wisconsin Conservatory of Music – studied with Querrin Duester – piano

University of Wisconsin Summer Music Clinics

B.M.E., 1964 Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

M.M.,  l965 Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. – piano performance

Post graduate study with Earl Rymer – Rymer School of Music, St. Paul, Mn.

SUNY Purchase  1990, 1991

Selected Art Workshops

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Rymer School of Music – Chairman of Piano Dept. 1965-1970

St. Mary’s College, Winona, Mn  1973-74

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Ark.  Private and group teaching.  Piano Pedagogy

Private Teaching  - 1965- 1989

PERFORMANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Performed – WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, Wisc.  Aged 10

Performing Artist, The Schubert Club of St.Paul – St.Paul Arts And Science Center

Performing Artist, The Thursday Musicale of Mpls.  Walker Art Center

Performing Artist, The Little Rock Musical Coterie, Little Rock Art Center

Faculty Recitals, Winona State College, University of Ark. At Little Rock

Arkansas PBS-TV – Performance of “The Best of Arkansas”

SAI Presents – Westminster Presb Church, Minneapolis, Mn.

Soloist and Accompanist – The Winona Chamber Chorale

Continual performance in the Twin Cities area- Minnesota Music Teacher’s Forum Thursday Musicale, Schubert Club, SAI, appearance with MacPhail           

    Orchestra, In Concert for the Rymer School of Music, Civic organizations, Winona State University, Little Rock.

    Accompanist for well known Twin Cities and Little Rock musicians.

Accompanist for Mary Winston Smithe – runner up for National Federated Music Clubs – toured Arkansas small colleges in concert.

Accompanist for regional National Collegiate Auditions, Little Rock.

Accompanist for program on Northwest Cable TV – Women in Music – Mpls.

President, 2 years, The Minneapolis Music Teachers Forum, ( Mpls. Piano

    teachers)

Graduate member Minnesota Music Teachers Association

National Music Teachers Association

Vice President of Music Teachers of Central Arkansas – 2 years

Judge for state MMTA Preliminary & Final Piano Contests- Intermediate through Young Artist,  Federated Music Club Festivals- Little Rock, National Federated Regional Collegiate Auditions – Little Rock.

General Chairman, Winona Community Memorial Hospital ( Auxillary Fund Raiser) all community variety show.

Pianist for Hammond Museum Art Show openings – 2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2009

Piano Judge for NYSTMA 1990-2008

Piano Judge for CT Federated Music Clubs