Julia Pfaff
Archaeological Etchings, Art Quilts
Curriculum Vitae
- 2000-2001 recipient of an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
- Undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Toronto, Masters of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University
- Archaeological technical artist in Greece, Egypt and Jordan.
- Exhibited at the American Craft Museum in New York, The Textile Museum in Washington,
D. C., and several locations in Canada and Japan.
- Featured in The Art Quilt, Quilts: A Living Tradition, Quilt National 1995, exhibition catalogue, and Fiberarts Design Book Five.
- In the collections of The Valentine Museum in Richmond, VA, The Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, VA, Media General Corporate Head offices, Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, VA, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, Medical College of Virginia, and The University of Toronto, Canada.
Artist’s Statement
My current work is inspired by my experiences working for the past twenty years as an archaeological technical artist in Greece, Egypt, and Jordan. Man's legacy from the past is manifest in the artifacts, architectural foundations, and ruins left behind. For several months a year I live surrounded by this legacy. I see archaeology's quest for historical and cultural identity as a metaphor for the individual's search for identity.
I strive to create contemplative objects directing the viewer to consider where we come from as a civilization and as individuals. My concern is in the nexus of the physical and spiritual, the known and the unknown, the found and the sought.
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