Julia E. Katz is a queer mom, artist, and facilitator based in West Philly. She facilitates cohorts and communities of practice in civic, educational, and creative spaces with librarians, artists, organizers, and fellow parents. This work, and her experience of love and community throughout the pandemic inform her art. She is a contributor to the Artist Grief Deck, a Leeway Art and Change grantee, and has collaborated with Educators for Consent Culture, Shut Down Berks, and SpiralQ among many others. She has exhibited most recently at The Painted Bride, Vox Populi Gallery, and the Da Vinci Art Alliance.
My paper-cutting explores the personal and collective struggle to find new ways of being and relating. Through self-portraiture, pattern, repetition, and text I reflect on family, intergenerational cycles, and honor universal and sacred points of connection. I celebrate rest, sensuality, the natural world, boundaries, and pleasure as antidotes to the toxic urgency, disconnection from our bodies, and dehumanization of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy culture. My art aims to return to the body as a place of joy, care, grief, and abundance.
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