In The Sound of the Sea lithographs by June Julian, wild and infuriated seas personify our human rage and ecological grief about human induced climate impacts on fragile coastlines everywhere.

In the Sea, My Bones lithographs, June Julian utilizes fine art printmaking to reflect her emotional engagement with vanishing corals and their relationship to the human narratives of yearning and loss. Sadly, there are more than twenty-five threatened coral species currently listed under the Endangered Species Act. Does the tragedy of the…[Read more]

The dynamic compositions of the paintings in The Whirlwind series, by artist June Julian, reflect her deep
sense of place at one point in time. They consist of large undulating surfaces that represent illusions of wave motion,
whirlwinds and whirlpools, and ultimately act as metaphors for riding out life’s challenges with gusto!

In a time when we all are burdened by the woes of the pandemic and world news, perhaps it is the right moment to teleport ourselves to lands of sunshine and beauty by vicariously revisiting past travel experiences through art. June Julian compiled a visual record of her multiple trips to the Cádiz area in Spain In her numerous sketchbooks,…[Read more]

June Julian’s paintings of old trees provided a strong basis for the aesthetic inquiry research methodology for her doctoral research at New York University. In 1994, from that phenomenological grounding, she developed a pioneering ecology art education project on the World Wide Web, and then invited the world to join in. With a genesis in her…[Read more]

In 2022, almost 900,000 acres had burned across New Mexico. Artist June Julian visualized the fears that she experienced at that time in her “Black Fire in the Gila Wilderness” Monotypes in the Smoke and Fire series.

Since December 2022, and over the following 4 months, twenty-three dead whales have
washed up on the East Coast. Regardless of the cause, our human
fingerprint seems to be all over it.
Artist June Julian reproduced her original paintings, Whale I and Whale II as posters,
and is selling them on eBay as a fundraiser for Clean Ocean Action in a…[Read more]

In the Water and Stone lithographs, June Julian has repurposed images from her Insomnia in Venice, oil
painting series, and hand printed them as mirror images in a smaller scale. Measuring 4 inches X 6
inches, they are intimate glimpses into a big climate change problem.

In June Julian’s Melody for Sunset and Tides painting series, her seascapes can be viewed as art and also can be played as musical notes.
She collaborated with Brooks Williams, sound artist, to produce the musical composition. The horizons of the paintings were aligned on
B F G D E on the music staff.

In June Julian’s In Melody for Sunset and Tides, her seascape paintings can be viewed as art and also played as musical notes. Consisting of five watercolors on handmade paper, every fluctuating horizon line in each individual image corresponds to one of the notes on a musical staff, and can be sung or played by a musician.

If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art to visualize remedies for broken hearts and broken landscapes. I propose that my following three projects show how Art can help us to imagine cures for endangered coastal archaeology, personal and ecological grief,…[Read more]

Pecha Kucha Presentation
Creative Santa Fe, Vol. 15 Perception
SITE Santa Fe
November 19, 2022
If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art to visualize remedies for broken hearts and broken landscapes. I propose that my following three projects show how Art…[Read more]

As trees everywhere are threatened by human caused environmental impacts, we
lament their demise, and make our heated, pointed remarks about conservation and
change. During a self-directed Summer sabbatical to the
island of Samos Greece, where trees of any kind are struggling and rare, I painted a
series of trees with sharply pointed branches,…[Read more]