Robin Rice Essay

Robin Rice does a wonderful job interviewing and writing about each artist that becomes a fellow at Wheaton Arts, Creative Glass Center of America. Below is a link to the her essay about my work and time at Wheaton last summer. Hope you enjoy!

Above is Betty the Black Widow who inspired 

the installation below called "Tripod"

http://www.wheatonarts.org/creativeglasscenteramerica/criticresidency/robinrice/juliusjanejessica

"3 Questions"- interview on Glass Quarterly Blog

Just posted last week is an interview that asks 3 questions dealing with my creative process, inspiration, and what I am working on. I hope you enjoy it.

To see the interview please click the link below
http://blog.glassquarterly.com/2012/07/20/3-questions-for-jessica-jane-julius/#more-15150

"Static" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

For the exhibition "Craft Spoken Here", curated by Elisabeth Agro, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art I have installed "Static". It is an installation made from thousands of black glass thread that has been flameworked and then gets connected to create one form. Each time this work gets installed it reacts to the space. I feel it is similar to drawing with a black pen on a white piece of paper.

The exhibition runs from May 5th, 2012 through August 12th, 2012. 

To see time-lapse video of the piece being installed click here.

From the PMA website
Crafts were prominent among the first works of art to enter the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was founded in 1876, and the Museum has continued to collect and exhibit crafts. Today, thanks in large part to the Women’s Committee and gifts from individuals, the Museum is particularly well-known for its holdings of twentieth-and twenty-first-century American, European, and Asian craft.

With Craft Spoken Here, the Museum seizes the opportunity to experiment with its collection and to understand craft in an international context. Some forty contemporary works from 1960 to the present in ceramic, glass, metal, wood, lacquer, paper, and fiber—some by living, acclaimed artists and others by lesser-known creators—are on view. Representing the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe, the works highlight formal qualities that cross cultures, time, and media.

Craft Spoken Here features an array of engaging education programs and interpretive materials, including on-site artist demonstrations and hands-on craftmaking activities for the public.

"Passing the Torch"

Exhibition Passing the Torch at Wheaton Arts in the Gallery of Fine Craft 3/12 - 5/12.

I was asked to be a part of an exhibition on Contemporary Flameworking by Paul Stankard. It was a honor to chosen by someone with such history in the American Studio Glass Movement. Thank you Paul!

"Fraction", Flameworked bullseye glass 

Teaching at Corning

Teaching at Corning Museum of Glass- winter session
Erica Rosenfeld and I are co-teaching a course at the museum 
January 16-21, 2012


Course name - "If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen"

Chrysler Museum

The Burnt Asphalt Family performs at the Chrysler Museum in November 2011.

To see the video click here.