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Julia Couzens

Artist and writer Julia Couzens (1948- ) was born in Auburn, California. She earned a MA from the California State University, Sacramento, in 1987 and her MFA from the University of California, Davis, in 1990. Couzens’s drawings and hybrid objects have been shown nationally and internationally at over twenty solo and two-person exhibitions and fifty group exhibitions. Her works are in the public collections of amongst others, The Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and the Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. As of 2019, Julia’s fiber and textile work was represented in the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco. Her work has been recognized with a Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship, and has been reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals. Julia has taught at several colleges and universities, including at the University of California, Davis and Santa Cruz, and California State University, Sacramento. She writes on contemporary art for The Sacramento Bee and squarecylinder.com. She divides her time between Merritt Island in Clarksburg, California, and Los Angeles. (From RAiR 50th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog, 2017) 

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