Community Arts

Julie has combined arts and activism through a series of civic-related art projects, starting with The Burrito Files in 2008, in which she interviewed and photographed over 150 people to find out their thoughts about downtown Tucson via a mock burrito cart. She then went on to co-found Pop Up Spaces, a project to produce temporary, interactive, site-specific installations in which visitors are not just expected to be passive viewers, but asked to be active participants, with artists Rachelle Diaz and Molly McClintock. Pop Up Spaces partnered with artists Bill Mackey and Kimi Eisele in 2009 to produce ±92: Downtown Master Plans, 1932-2009, an exhibit of over 100 master plans for downtown Tucson in a vacant storefront. The Master Plans exhibit, which included interactive exercises, was chosen as the pick of the week by the Tucson Weekly, featured on Arizona Public Media, KOLD 13, and Fox 11, and recommended in an Arizona Daily Star editorial.