Jessica Julius

Teaches at UrbanGlass

Jessica Jane Julius’ objects, installations, and drawings reflect on the intangible environment - the multitude of surrounding elements in our environments that cannot be perceived through touch. Working in a wide variety of media including found, hot, and cold glass, flameworking, and rub-on dry transfer letters, her work attempts to make meaningful connections amidst the noise, to transform the intangible into tangible, and to create balance by applying chaos to order and order to chaos.

Julius is currently a Professor at Tyler School of Art in the Glass program, an Exhibition Coordinator at a grassroots gallery in Philadelphia, and the co-founder and active member of the artist collective The Burnt Asphalt Family. She has been published in the New Glass Review in 2001, 1008, 2009, 2010, and 2012, received the Emerging Artist Award from the Glass Art Society, and received CGCA fellowships from Wheaton Arts Creative Glass Center in 2007 & 2011 and Museum of Glass residency in 2013. Her work has been included in numerous national exhibitions including “Craft Spoken Here” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son.