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Guest Speaker Julie DeVries is a Lone Star College Visual Arts professor, as well as a painter, sculptor, and digital artist, who was born and raised in Houston, where she currently lives and works. Her creative practice mines poignant memories and observations of nature in urban and suburban environments, exploring how these settings impact the natural world, as well as the importance of green spaces to our own emotional being.. In her artist talks to college students, she speaks about how the act of creating has helped her over the years cope with periods of depression, which in my experience, has greatly comforted and inspired her listening audience. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus on Painting and Latin American art history and spent a semester abroad with family, participating in the Butler University Institute for Study Abroad COPA program in Argentina.. Devries also has an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Houston. Her work has been exhibited and collected locally and nationally and has been included in the prestigious Houston Endowment permanent collection. Her most current solo exhibition at Hunter Dunbar Projects Gallery in New York was also reviewed in the September issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Recently, she has been working on animating her digital drawings in order to create time based vignettes of distilled moments and has been designing and installing her imagery as larger scale immersive paintings, sculptures, and vinyl wall murals
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