JULIA WARNER / Materialist Press

juliaswarner@ gmail.com
323-251-6696

MFA Graphic Design. Otis College of Art & Design 2013, Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
BA Art. Photography + Printmaking. UC Santa Cruz 2011, Santa Cruz, CA.
DesignBuildBLUFF. University of Utah 2016-17, Salt Lake City + Bluff, UT.
Furniture Making 4-month intensive. Penland School of Crafts 2013-14, Penland, NC.
Masters Design Field Study. Sandberg Institute 2013, Amsterdam, NL.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Blue Sky Center, Rural Community Designer
AmeriCorps VISTA, Cuyama Valley, CA, 2017-2018. Management of community projects and nonprofit
operations using communication and graphic design.

Good Book Press, Design and Press Assistant

With Peter & Donna Thomas, Santa Cruz, CA, 2016-present. Assistance in graphic design, concept development, and
production. Book arts with a focus on handmade paper and letterpressed words and imagery.

Utah Chronicle, Graphic Designer

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Fall 2016. Page layout for weekly production and distribution.

MudThroat Records and Vortex Riso Press, Co-Founder

2009-2015. Self-intitiated publications in collaboration within larger creative publishing communities.

Freelance Graphic Designer

2012-present. Book, label, and print design.

Cowell Press, UC Santa Cruz, Letterpress Studio Technician and Teaching Assistant
With Gary Young, Santa Cruz, CA, 2012-16. Guidance and instruction with undergraduate students at UC Santa Cruz to
complete letterpress, arts, and book arts projects as part of Cowell College’s Book Arts program.

DANM (Digital Arts & New Media) Lab, UC Santa Cruz, Studio Technician and Teaching Assistant
With Norman Locks and Jack Chapman, Santa Cruz, CA, 2010-11. Guidance and instruction with undergraduate
students at UC Santa Cruz to complete black and white darkroom photographic projects, as well as use of the DANM
facilities, including digital photography software and large Epson color printers.

Bay Photo Lab, Quality Control
Santa Cruz, CA, 2012. Detailed product and order review of photographic prints and books before shipment.

PRESS WORKS Housing Justice as Climate Justice, Project Manager / marketing and communications design
With over $40,000 in grant funds, promoting sustainability through educational initiatives. Recently awarded the Alta
& PUBLICATIONS
Sustainability Leadership Award for projects in 2017 through the University of Utah.

Materialist Press, Co-Founder, Project Manager / a roaming independent press

Publications include Materialist Volume 1, Where you Gonna Run To? (by Livingston Miller), Supplement V.1 and Supplement
V.2 (supported by Kelly Writer’s House and UPenn). Showcasing juxtaposed digital and hand-printed forms including
letterpress, photograph and silkscreen prints, short stories, and poems with unique binding techniques.

ChainGang Apothecary, Co-Founder, Editor & Publisher / advocacy for California prisoners
Publications include Issues 1-3 of Options, a Healing Arts journal for prisoners and free-worlders. Each issue printed in
an edition of 100 with a letterpressed cover and hand-bound, free or suggested donation.

MudThroat Records, C0-Founder, Project Manager / a collaborative art and music project
Issues 1-5 each bound or boxed in an edition of 50. Inspired by Wallace Berman’s Semina, loose-leaf letterpress and
photographic prints with submissions from a collaborative group of friends. The final issue included large-format
posters housed in a 2-ft long wooden box, with dried fruit, home-made cider, and a tape of home recordings.

Personal Projects, Artist, Printmaker, and Bookbinder / journals and short-term collaborations
Publications include Warriors and Their Allies (with Veterans Against the War), Autonomy in Urban Landscapes: an edited
reader, Grand Finale - Otis 2013: culmination of my master’s thesis, An Arcane Manifesto via Holographic Telegram, To Bind
and Not to Think, and more, featuring offprints, silkscreen, letterpress, and risograph components.