Julie Belcher
THE ROOSTER MAY CROW BUT THE HEN DELIVERS THE GOODS
Letterpress printmaker, designer, mixed media with encaustic artist
Owner and creative director of Pioneer House
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Julie@Pioneer-House.com
Julie Belcher is an Appalachian artist, dedicated handmade advocate, and appreciator of that which can be made new and useful once more. She studied architecture and graphic design before helping to launch the hand-set letterpress printmaking revival and her company Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, over 25 years ago, while scavenging to purchase and restore vintage printing presses long forgotten throughout the South.
She hand pulls her letterpress pieces from antique typography and carved imagery. She embellishes paper monoprints with drawing, thread and melted beeswax and incorporates them into her mixed media encaustic paintings in her current studio Pioneer House in Knoxville, TN. Julie was the recipient of a Bailey Opportunity Grant in 2021 with showings at the Muriel S. Mayfield Gallery, Athens, TN and Anchor & Arrow Dry Goods, New Orleans, along with long time printmaking pal Sean Starwars.
Julie is a long time educator, teaching printmaking and art business practices to many employees and interns, doing lectures for public and private entities - Southern Graphics Council (SGC), American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA former board member) and teaching workshops at renown educational institutions like Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and many universities, museums and cultural centers across the USA. She also offers private instruction in her studio.
Commissions include the nationally noted illustration of American novelist Cormac McCarthy on the cover of the New York Times Review of Books, a series of large-scale monoprints for Whole Foods Cafe, and numerous and group shows around the globe.
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