Julie McCreedy
Biography
Julie McCreedy currently resides in Boise, ID and works at her residential, Starlite Studio. McCreedy received her formal education and degree (BFA-Visual Arts) at Boise State University (BSU), 2012-2013. McCreedy has exhibited and sold her works in Nevada; Oregon; Idaho; Nagoya, Japan;Venice, Italy and Berlin, Germany. Her drawing "Fluxus," 2008 concerning form and expression, made publication in a Pearson education textbook in 2011. Further, her three-year position as the former Printmaking Lab Technician (BSU), gave her the technical experience and teaching skills to advance her professional practice and is currently working towards achieving her MFA.
Grief and trauma associated with the sudden loss of McCreedy’s son by a suicide in 2014, makes for a renewed obsession about the artists mortality and on themes related to bereavement. McCreedy continues to process her grief through making meaningful art as well as advocate and volunteer for groups such as the United to Face Addiction Organization in Washington DC. McCreedy is developing an on-line community project and platform where loss and love due to the Opioid Epidemic will show case other artist’s representations, who have also experienced similar trauma. All 100% of the proceeds from the art works sold will be donated directly to an annual, rotating legitimate recovery center to assist in an individual’s recovery process.
