“ART IS A FORM OF VULNERABILITY AND RISK-TAKING WHERE WE SHARE INTIMATE IDEAS WITH OTHERS IN HOPES OF FINDING CONNECTION. ”
Art Moves Iowa
Be a part of my new initiative to make art accessible to all! By making art mobile, we can pop-up in unexpected places to spark curiosity and creativity and start conversations in communities in Iowa. Experience how art can move Iowa to dream, create, connect and inspire.
Art Can Be a Transformative Experience
Poet Mallory Abreu & artist Julia Franklin join forces and invite the public to collaborate and create interactive and immersive installations that are monuments to collective healing.
Hide & Seek
Design On Main, Ames, IA 2019
“Picking Up the Pieces” expands into an immersive experience to better tell the story of the unexpected and mysterious death of Julia’s father in 1990.
Helene Center Galleries, Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, Winter 2019
Keeping Up Appearances Reading
Performed in Helene Center, Graceland University, February 2019
“Illuminated” is a small installation of an intimate dining room that offered weekly potluck dinner parties to spark conversations and share memories over food and fellowship. Set in a glassed-in former gas station, the nostalgic space provided public glimpses of private moments.
OL Guild, Valley Junction, West Des Moines, Iowa, in Spring 2019
Portrait of My Father
Farnham Galleries, Simpson College 2017
Lost & Found Exhibition - Des Moines Social Club January 2015
A Vision In White - Installation in Constance Gallery January 2011
The Skin Show - Installation in Constance Gallery February 2015
Landscapes - Exhibition in Constance Gallery August 2006
Selections of other works
