Julie Rothschild (b. 1968) is an interdisciplinary artist, experimenting with fiber, steel, and movement. Ever curious about the myriad ways we move in relationship to our environments and each other, she makes artworks — material choreographies — to realize her questions and discoveries. As a young dancer, student, and athlete, she saw dance vocabulary in everything. Dynamism everywhere. Nothing static. This early realization led to a creative practice encompassing both this constant input and her desire for empty space.
Leading up to her work as a visual artist, Julie has gleaned most of what she knows from the people and places with whom and where she has lived and danced. Small towns, small stages, small dances. Some of these include WRA, CC, OSU, Lawrence Arts Center, Zen Monkey Project, McGuffey Arts Center, Live Arts, Warehouse Collective, UGA, Emory, Dance Exchange, ATI, FloorSpace Athens/Boulder, Performática, Chicken Bank Collective, CloseLook, MAPS, and her practice of making. The interconnectedness between each of these landscapes and communities remains a steady dance partner.
Julie was recently featured in LUXE magazine and had her first solo art exhibit, BODY AT WORK, at the Bus Stop Gallery in Boulder, CO (2024). Her piece, HORIZONAL B, was selected for the juried online exhibit, Women Artists Making Their Mark, at the O'Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, CA. In October 2024, she was part of Women in Fiber, a show featuring three fiber artists — Darcie Shively, Maryanne Quinn, and Julie — at Low Rider Gallery, which received a feature in Boulder Lifestyle Magazine (2024). In September 2025, Julie shared a new body of work in an exhibit featuring Sara Goldenberg White, Camille McMurry, and herself at the Boulder JCC Messinger Gallery.
2026 highlights so far:
A week-long residency at Anderson Ranch in the Sculpture Studio
Artist in Residence at Scribble Art Workshop Boulder, January–March
FIBRUARY, a contemporary fiber exhibition at Louisville Public Library, February 4–28
Dream Weaving Retreat in Healdsburg, CA
Taos Artist Retreat — creative processing with Laura Hoffman
EBCA Spring Studio Tour, April 25–26
Material Migration, a collaborative exhibit with Liz Quan, opening June 6 at Kin Studio and Gallery
CARPET DIEM PARIS 2026 — a new work sharing a unique exhibition of contemporary textile artworks during Art Week, October 22–25. Set design by Hervé Sauvage.