Julia Garina

Julia is a textile artist, felt maker and art teacher in a Charter school. She enjoys assisting others to discover and develop their own unique creative voice while continuing to express her own. Julia works in contemporary and unexpected ways to express her energy into the world by practicing many different felting techniques i.e. needle, wet, nuno, and using organic materials. By using these methods of fiber craft that historically were considered women’s work in new and non-traditional ways, she makes them artworks. She works to inspire her students to express their artistic creativity and loves to share her skills with her students. Julia was born in Central Asia and has lived in Arizona for 5 years. She is a member of the Arizona Felters’ Guild. Julia has offered workshops for the guild and this summer presented a demo of wearable felt art and also taught workshops at the Flagstaff Fiber and Wool Festival.