Julie Shipp is a Dallas-based artist, curator, professor and arts advocate. Her education focused on both Studio Art and Art History, having received her MFA in Painting along with graduate studies in Art History from the University of Texas at San Antonio and undergraduate degrees (Art History, 2000 and Studio Art, 2001) from the University of North Texas.
As a professor of art and gallery director, Julie pursues the language of art from a perspective that visual communication should allow us to reflect upon our humanity, while also challenging us to examine and redefine the world that surrounds us. Recent research includes studies of political murals and a rediscovered fresco painting in Argentina, ancient history and artwork in Israel, and contemporary art in Portugal.
Serving the community has been an important part of Julie's artistic and personal development. She is a former president and board member for the Frisco Arts Foundation, served as the first Texas Chapter Leader for the Sarcoma Foundation of America, volunteers with the Special Olympics, and is now a board member with the Visual Arts Guild of Frisco. A favorite project was to create, with a colleague, two-large scale murals in the Zimmerman Garden at the Legacy Founders Cottage Hospice in 2019. These special projects relate to her intention to impact individuals through visual communication.
Her studio practice presents concepts of impermanence and atmospheric changes in large scale paintings intended to fill the viewers field of vision, as well as a recent focus on landscape studies. The series of landscapes depict well-traveled locations devoid of human interruptions have been burdened by human conflict. Shipp’s work has been included in public collections such as the Neiman Marcus Collection, UT Health Science Research Center collection and the San Antonio Spurs AT&T Center collection, as well as in private collections through the United States.