About

Jessica Jane Julius, is an interdisciplinary artist who uses glass and mixed media to create large scale installations, objects, imagery, and wearables that embody notions of classification, transformation, interconnectedness, perception, and materiality. Her research examines how fear is infiltrating the way in which we navigate the world, interpersonal relationships, and welcoming risk into our lives. Often creating works that explore the anxieties and complexities of language through the lens of dyslexia, she attempts to take command of language; visual, verbal, and experimental, to create a tenuous network of creative exchange and correspondence. With a desire to create order, balance, and unity she attempts to create a new syntax of visual and experiential works. She believes that her gift of dyslexia gives her the ability to see the space in-between, to discover the undetected, and to connect the invisible attempting to show us that there is order in disorder and unity in diversity.

Julius has been dedicated for 20+ years to the arts as an artist, educator, collaborator, and performer. She is currently the Program Head of Glass, Associate Professor at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and the President of the Glass Art Society. She is the co-founder of the artists collective and performance group The Burnt Asphalt Family who produces collaborative participatory works. They have performed at prestigious venues across the country including The Corning Museum of Glass, The Chrysler Museum, and Urban Glass. Her mixed media works have been exhibited widely, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Traver Gallery, Heller Gallery, and the Museum of American Glass, NJ. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Glass Quarterly Magazine, and New Glass Review and she is the recipient of the York Cultural Alliance grant and awarded residencies at The Creative Glass Center of America and the Museum of Glass. She earned her BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture and MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Currently she lives in Philadelphia with her partner and son.