a visual bio
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Boston University
Walking into Boston University’s College of Fine Arts building, I knew that I finally found my home. I learned to draw with Harold Reddicliffe.
New York Studio School
At The New York Studio School, I learned from Graham Nickson to paint big and fast during month-long drawing and painting marathons.
The Vytlacil Residency Program
At The Vytlacil Residency Program in Sparkill, New York, I experienced the joy of having my own private studio for the first time.
The Art Students League
of New York
At The Art Students League of New York I discovered new ways of seeing and painting in Dan Gheno’s class, as well as making my color dreams come to life in Ronnie Landfield’s class.
The Marchutz School
Via a travel scholarship through the Fantasy Fountain Fund, I had the opportunity to study plein pair painting at the Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Adelphi University
At Adelphi University, my role in the art world started to shift from that of student to teacher. I am beyond grateful to have the opportunity to help others find new ways of seeing, discovering and creating.
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Julia Montepagani is a New York State certified visual arts teacher, having received her M.A. in Art Education from Adelphi University (2021). She studied advertising and fine arts at Boston University (BS, 2005), and printmaking at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica (Venice, Italy, 2005). Following college, Julia was offered an opportunity to work and study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she earned her Master of Business Administration, with a focus on entrepreneurship (2009). Her time at this innovative school only fueled her desire to make more art. In 2007, she completed a seven-week Drawing & Painting Marathon with Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School. Following her business degree, Julia moved to New York City to further pursue her artistic dreams at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied with Michael Grimaldi, Frank O’Cain, Ronnie Landfield and Dan Gheno (2009–2014).
In 2011, Julia was awarded the Sara and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Foundation Residence Scholarship for the Vytlacil Artist-in-Residence program, where she created landscape and interior paintings and received counsel from Hans Witschi, Gary Sussman and Grace Knowlton. In 2013, she was selected to participate in the Affordable Art Fair in New York. In 2014, she was awarded the Julio Valdez Studio Residency Fellowship for printmaking, as well as the Fantasy Fountain Fund Travel Scholarship to study at the Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Julia comes from a family of artists and art lovers—her father (an Italian native) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy and was one of the original portrait painters in the Uffizi Plaza in the 1960s and 70s. He instilled in her a love for art.
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Exhibitions
The Fall Arts Festival, Adelphi University (online), 2020
Solo Show, The Gallery at 350 Bleecker, New York, NY, 2015
Group Show, The Marchutz School, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2014
Solo Show, The Modca Cafe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY , 2014
Rhythms and Waves, Solo Show, The One Well, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Annual Juried Small Works Competition, The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
A Benefit for NYC’s Homeless, at Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services Corp, 2013
The Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY, 2013
Group Show at Juliet P. Kalib, Attorney At Law, 1501 Broadway, New York, NY, 2013
Small Works, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NY, 2011
Vyt AIR Resident Show, Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill, NY, 2011
Staffed, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NY, 2011
Holiday Show & Sale, Art Students League of NY, NY, 2011
Summer Landscapes, New York Studio School, NY, 2007
The Fence Show, The Arts Center, Troy, NY, 2005
Awards & Residencies
The Art Students League's Merit Scholarship (in the category of Abstract Art), 2015
The Fantasy Fountain Fund Travel Scholarship, 2014
The Julio Valdez Studio Residency Fellowship for Printmaking, 2014
The Sara and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Foundation Residence Scholarship, 2013
Education
Adelphi University, MA: Art Education, 2021
The Art Students League of New York, NY: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, 2009-2015
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY: MBA: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, 2009
New York Studio School, New York, NY, 2007
Boston University, Boston, MA: BS: Advertising; Minor: Art, 2005
Boston University London Ctr., London, UK: Art History, Advertising, 2005
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy: Printmaking, Book Arts, 2005