BIO

Julia Coash is an artist and educator whose interests in global studies, anthropology, and visual culture are important influences on her creative work and teaching. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in Cairo, Paris, Bermuda and throughout the United States. She taught and was Co-chair of the Dept. of Visual and Performing Arts and Director of the Master’s in Liberal Studies Program at Albertus Magnus College. She has also taught at Bermuda College and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash received her MFA in Painting from James Madison University; her MSEd in Higher Education and BA in Ethnographic Photography (President’s Scholar Degree Program) both from Southern Illinois University. Her grants and residencies have included: Residency with the Masterworks Museum in Bermuda; EBUKI Conference in the Solway Plain, England; research in Japan and Southeast Asia, Jen Tough Residency, Santa Fe, NM as well as grants from the C. Lowndes Foundation, Kentucky Foundation for Women Artists, and the Great Meadows Foundation.  Her works are held in public and private collections such as the Shapin-Nicholas Art Project Foundation, Masterworks Museum, Bermuda, and Southern Illinois University. She has been featured in recent exhibitions at: the Painting Center (New York City), 21c Museum Hotel (Louisville), Moremen Gallery, (Louisville), Shapin Nicholas Art Project (Louisville) as well as juried shows at SITE Brooklyn, Five Points Gallery (Torrington, CT) and the Ely Center for Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT).