Julia Kelly
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"The West, its landscape, history and people have always moved me in my art and writing,
but so have other places in my travels. We truly live on an amazing planet!”
Julia Kelly grew up in the mountains of Colorado. Born in Boulder and living in Aspen,
her family eventually settled in Loveland, where many days were spent following her
brother through the Rocky Mountain foothills, near theirgrandma’s cabin.
Moving to the southwest part of the state after high school, Julia received her BA in Art
from Fort Lewis College in Durango, where she found her true loves; the rugged San
Juan mountain, a slower pace of life and someone to share it with.
Today, Julia and her husband, Jon, are living “a rocks throw” from the Four Corners of
Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico and are introducing their children to the
wonders of not only the mountains, but also the canyons and deserts just outside their
back door.
Although classically trained, Julia Kelly is exploring her childhood pursuit of creating with
fabric and thread, to find her medium of expression in “fabric collage” and putting a new
spin on a traditional American art form.
Not able to work a sewing machining properly, she stitches by hand, finishing with
embroidery embellishments, preferable in a comfy chair listening to a good movie.
Her other “enjoyable pursuits” included strolling through mountain towns, “feasting”
around a table with friends and family, and teaching art to Navajo and rural kids at Battle
Rock Charter school, a historic one room school house down in McElmo Canyon near
the Utah border, where Butch Cassidy hid his first attempts at rustling.
but so have other places in my travels. We truly live on an amazing planet!”
Julia Kelly grew up in the mountains of Colorado. Born in Boulder and living in Aspen,
her family eventually settled in Loveland, where many days were spent following her
brother through the Rocky Mountain foothills, near theirgrandma’s cabin.
Moving to the southwest part of the state after high school, Julia received her BA in Art
from Fort Lewis College in Durango, where she found her true loves; the rugged San
Juan mountain, a slower pace of life and someone to share it with.
Today, Julia and her husband, Jon, are living “a rocks throw” from the Four Corners of
Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico and are introducing their children to the
wonders of not only the mountains, but also the canyons and deserts just outside their
back door.
Although classically trained, Julia Kelly is exploring her childhood pursuit of creating with
fabric and thread, to find her medium of expression in “fabric collage” and putting a new
spin on a traditional American art form.
Not able to work a sewing machining properly, she stitches by hand, finishing with
embroidery embellishments, preferable in a comfy chair listening to a good movie.
Her other “enjoyable pursuits” included strolling through mountain towns, “feasting”
around a table with friends and family, and teaching art to Navajo and rural kids at Battle
Rock Charter school, a historic one room school house down in McElmo Canyon near
the Utah border, where Butch Cassidy hid his first attempts at rustling.
