Julie Horn

Julie is the visual arts director for the Maine Arts Commission and manages the State’s Percent for Art program. She relocated to Augusta after working for six years as the director for visual arts, craft, media and design at the Tennessee Arts Commission in Nashville. Her tenure there also included curating and managing the TAC gallery. Her education includes a BFA in painting from the University of Arizona, a MFA in print media from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a fellowship at the Wexner Center for the Arts, at The Ohio State University. Her professional work experience includes facilitating a variety of studio and lecture classes at several colleges in middle TN and serving as adjudicator for grants for Louisiana and Tennessee. In 2013 she was invited by Tennessee’s First Lady Crissy Haslam to curate TN craft and traditional artwork for the TN Executive Residence. She is also a published writer of art criticism for Numbers Inc., Art Papers and the Nashville Scene. She was the curator of public programs for the First Center for Visual Art and has received her certification in both nonprofit leadership and nonprofit management. In 2016, she was an invited speaker at Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, on Contemporary Craft Apprentice Programs and served on the panel, Being and Doing: Legacies of Creative Practice and Education, at Black Mountain College. She also serves as a member of the Maine/New Brunswick Cultural Task Force.