Julia Whitney Barnes is a Brooklyn-based, mixed media artist who has spent the last dozen years making indoor and outdoor works related to the natural world. Julia was born in Newbury, Vermont and grew up in several New England towns. She earned a MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York and a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design. Julia has created site-specific works for the New York City Department of Transportation (New York, NY); Front Room Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, NY); St. Marks Aliance: arts@ renaissance (Brooklyn, NY); Mulry Fine Art (West Palm Beach, FL); FIGMENT Sculpture Garden (Governors Island, NY); Gowanus Canal mural (Brooklyn, NY); Empire Fulton Ferry State Park (Brooklyn, NY); Artbridge (New York, NY); Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Smithsonian Affiliate (Solomons, MD); and exhibited at many galleries in America as well as abroad. Julia is a member of an all-female art collective, tART, and was awarded an Abbey Mural Fellowship from the National Academy of Fine Art in 2010.