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Julia Lont — photo transfer, egg tempura

Artist's Statement for 'Artists @ Work' 2011

"I am an art teacher. I have never been an artist who wanted to hole up for hours on end working in isolation. I have always been a person who values interaction with people and the interaction between art and people.

After taking a workshop from Helen Stringfellow at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in mixed media techniques, I found that transferring photographs on different surfaces and combining these with various mixed media materials was a great way to layer in a wide variety of imagery and visual effects. I’ve also grown quite fond of using egg tempers as both a paint and a glue. It has a wonderful luster and transparency that works well with collage. Besides, I keep chickens, and if there is one thing a family of two with four chickens does not lack, it’s eggs!

My guiding vision for this project is shared memory. Photographs have a unique way of bringing history into the present. While we cannot literally go back into these moments, glimpses are captures in the photograph that allows us to relate to these histories even if we never knew the people in them. Season cycle, time passes, people continue to be born, to live, to die, and one generation passes on the next, but humanity in some essential way does not change."

- Julia Lont

Vocation and Education

• Art Teacher (drawing, painting, ceramics and jewelry) Corvallis High School
• Painter and graphic artist, primarily in oils, charcoal, pastel and collage
• B.A. Art and Art History, Calvin College, Grand rapids Michigan
• M.Ed. Art Education, Portland State University, Portland OR

Exhibitions

• June 1997  Big Painting Show, 10 Weston Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
• Sept 1997  West Michigan Regional Juried Show, Muskegon Art Museum, Muskegon MI
• Feb 2006  “Old School” Corvallis Middle and High School Faculty Show, Footwise window, Corvallis
• Every January 2008-2011, Epiphany Art Show, First Congregational Church
• Feb 2009 New Morning Bakery Art Competition, Corvallis, Awarded First Place