Julia Pavone was the co-founder and Curator/Director of the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, at the University of Connecticut’s Avery Point Campus for 24 years. Julia is now a full time artist living and working in VT. She is a co-founder of the Chelsea Arts Collective in Chelsea, VT.
She has taught courses in Studio Art, Art History and Art Appreciation. Julia’s work as a painter includes creating abstract and mixed media paintings, working in Oil, Cold Wax , Encaustic medium and “Found Object” paintings. Julia's artisan work consists of Folk Art paintings on vintage door panels, boxes, found objects and furniture, as well as numerous Barn Quilts as part of the Chelsea, VT Barn Quilt Project.
She has been given numerous exhibitions in New York City, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont. In 2023 Julia was given a Solo Exhibition entitle “The Masters Series” at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT. The Museum has chosen one of Julia’s paintings from this exhibition to be part of their permanent collection.
Julia is currently the Curator for the Tunbridge General Store Art Gallery, in Tunbridge Vermont.
Julia has been a guest curator at The Mystic Museum of Art, The Lyme Academy, The Slater Memorial Museum, New London Art Society and Gallery, Three Rivers Community College, Pfizer Corporation’s Art Galleries and MS17 Gallery, in CT. She has been invited to jury several professional art exhibitions in Hartford, Essex, Clinton, Guilford, Manchester, New Haven (Paint & Clay show), Mystic (CAFA show) and Norwich, Connecticut, as well as in Rhode Island. She has also been an invited guest lecturer on the arts for many organizations in CT, including the Lyman Allyn Museum, Mystic Museum of Art and Guilford Center for the Arts, in CT.
Julia was awarded a month long Residency as a working artist in Bulgaria in 2003, 2005 and again in 2013, by the Griffis Foundation of New London (headed by Toby Griffis) and the Orpheus Foundation of Bulgaria, headed by renowned poet, Lyubomir Levchev. There she was given 2 solo exhibitions in 2003 including one at the U.S. Embassy in the Capitol of Sofia. In 2013 Julia was given another exhibition with 2 other artists from the residency in the Artist Cooperative Gallery, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Julia was also given an Artist Residency in Ireland in 2008
Julia M. Pavone 2024
