Sit down with artist Joanne Julian at the Santa Paula Art Museum during her Artist Talk on Saturday, February 22, 2025, from 2 PM to 3 PM. The LA/Oxnard artist will discuss her long career in the arts and her current solo exhibition, “Nature’s Spirits.” Learn how Julian utilizes acrylic, graphite, ink, and Prismacolor pencil to create artworks that combine realistic images of natural forms with spontaneous brushwork in the Japanese Zen “splashed-ink” style.

“Nature’s Spirits” is on view now through March 9, 2025.

More About Joanne

Joanne Julian was born in Los Angeles. She received her BA and MA degrees in sculpture and printmaking from California State University, Northridge and her MFA from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design.

She was a faculty member of College of the Canyons in Valencia, California from 1973-2007 where she was Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Dean of Fine Arts of Humanities, and later Gallery Director. She has also taught and lectured at Art Center College of Design, California State University, Northridge, Glendale College, and Los Angeles Trade Technical College.

Julian has mounted over 20 solo exhibitions and over 60 group exhibitions nationally. She has had an active studio practice for over 50 years, often working on a commission basis for site specific pieces for international corporations. Critical reviews, essays, and reproductions have been published in her own exhibition catalogues, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek, Art in America, Artillery, Art LTD, and Voyage LA among others.