Julia Hope Price has painted professionally for over 20 years and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationwide. She has received many awards including the Eclipse Medallion Award at ArtDex International in Canada and Best of Show among Southern Representational Painters. Her oil paintings have been accepted for exhibition in several museum shows and are well represented in significant private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
“I’ve been painting all my life,” says this friendly, petite woman. The public, however, didn’t always know about her work.
“I was a closet painter,” she admits.
She was teaching college English and “on a wild hair” in 1986, decided to take an art class at the New Orleans Institute of Art. To her surprise, “they offered me a full scholarship. I thought I would take a year off and study,” she says, but four years later, she graduated with an art degree.
For years, she was represented by the Carol Robinson Gallery on Magazine Street. Fortunately, the gallery survived the hurricane with little damage – except the over all damage to the economy, she noted.
The gallery is an “old gallery with a great atmosphere,” Julia says. “I was spoiled and I didn’t even know it! I didn’t even have to frame my pictures. He would come to my studio, pick the picture, frame it and sell it and send me the money.”
Most of Julia’s work in New Orleans was portraiture. “Everybody in New Orleans knew me as a figure painter. I was classically trained,” she said. But when she moved to Ruidoso, she found there was not much market for that genre, and few models available. “Everybody works off photographs here,” the artist noted.
She began painting mostly landscapes and “got into painting horses because it was the next best thing to a human,” she quipped. “Naw, I’m just kidding. I grew up on a ranch with horses.”
Julia moved to Ruidoso to work with the educational, non[profit group Sierra Dove Association which works with elementary schools to offer art to children.
“Most people are very visual,” she notes. Most people learn more quickly in a visual setting rather than from just reading. Sierra Dove works in after school programs for art activities, activities which bring all kinds of benefits for the participants.
“We see all kinds of growth with self esteem, better work academically and getting along socially.”
The association this year is looking to get outside evaluations to help qualitatively evaluate the value of their art programs on such attributes.
Meanwhile, Julia Hope Price notes, “I’m combining my two great interest: Art and literature.”
You may see more of Julia Hope Price’s works on her Steppin’ Out Cameo Site. See www.juliahopeprice.com (http://www.juliahopeprice.com/)
Want a chance to own a Giclée print of Embrace?
Would you like to own a Giclée print of Embrace, this issue’s beautiful front cover painting by Julia Hope Price?
Here’s your chance:
Contest rules
• Send $5 donation per chance with your name, address and phone number or email address;
• OR write a short article explaining what you feel when you look at the picture. Be sure to include your name, address & contact information
Send to: Steppin’ Out
616 Nicholas
Socorro, N.M. 87801
Or email to pengwen@SONewMex.com
•All entries must be received by March 15, 2006
Drawing will be held March 16
All proceeds will go to Julia Hope Prices’s favorite non-profit organization: Sierra Dove, bringing art to area students
Articles submitted will be printed in SONewMex.com
©2006 Steppin’ Out/SONewMex.com
Alto – Julia Hope Price is the artist who created “Embrace,” the stunning oil piece which graces the cover of Steppin’ Out this issue.
Julia Hope Price has painted professionally for over 20 years and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationwide. She has received many awards including the Eclipse Medallion Award at ArtDex International in Canada and Best of Show among Southern Representational Painters. Her oil paintings have been accepted for exhibition in several museum shows and are well represented in significant private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
“I’ve been painting all my life,” says this friendly, petite woman. The public, however, didn’t always know about her work.
“I was a closet painter,” she admits.
She was teaching college English and “on a wild hair” in 1986, decided to take an art class at the New Orleans Institute of Art. To her surprise, “they offered me a full scholarship. I thought I would take a year off and study,” she says, but four years later, she graduated with an art degree.
For years, she was represented by the Carol Robinson Gallery on Magazine Street. Fortunately, the gallery survived the hurricane with little damage – except the over all damage to the economy, she noted.
The gallery is an “old gallery with a great atmosphere,” Julia says. “I was spoiled and I didn’t even know it! I didn’t even have to frame my pictures. He would come to my studio, pick the picture, frame it and sell it and send me the money.”
Most of Julia’s work in New Orleans was portraiture. “Everybody in New Orleans knew me as a figure painter. I was classically trained,” she said. But when she moved to Ruidoso, she found there was not much market for that genre, and few models available. “Everybody works off photographs here,” the artist noted.
She began painting mostly landscapes and “got into painting horses because it was the next best thing to a human,” she quipped. “Naw, I’m just kidding. I grew up on a ranch with horses.”
Julia moved to Ruidoso to work with the educational, non[profit group Sierra Dove Association which works with elementary schools to offer art to children.
“Most people are very visual,” she notes. Most people learn more quickly in a visual setting rather than from just reading. Sierra Dove works in after school programs for art activities, activities which bring all kinds of benefits for the participants.
“We see all kinds of growth with self esteem, better work academically and getting along socially.”
The association this year is looking to get outside evaluations to help qualitatively evaluate the value of their art programs on such attributes.
Meanwhile, Julia Hope Price notes, “I’m combining my two great interest: Art and literature.”
You may see more of Julia Hope Price’s works on her Steppin’ Out Cameo Site. See www.juliahopeprice.com (http://www.juliahopeprice.com/)
Want a chance to own a Giclée print of Embrace?
Would you like to own a Giclée print of Embrace, this issue’s beautiful front cover painting by Julia Hope Price?
Here’s your chance:
Contest rules
• Send $5 donation per chance with your name, address and phone number or email address;
• OR write a short article explaining what you feel when you look at the picture. Be sure to include your name, address & contact information
Send to: Steppin’ Out
616 Nicholas
Socorro, N.M. 87801
Or email to pengwen@SONewMex.com
•All entries must be received by March 15, 2006
Drawing will be held March 16
All proceeds will go to Julia Hope Prices’s favorite non-profit organization: Sierra Dove, bringing art to area students
Articles submitted will be printed in SONewMex.com