About

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Julia Stanger is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, painting and exploratory forms.

Her creative path began in childhood and evolved through a 15-year career as a New York fashion designer. Seeking balance and to leave behind the environmental toll of fast fashion, she turned to clay, a medium she calls “deliberately inefficient” for its demands of patience, care, and repeated high temperature firings.

For the past decade she has pursued her artistic growth in Dallas by channeling her skills toward supporting local nonprofits where she’s found both purpose and community, while quietly cultivating her craft through classes and workshops.

Her work draws inspiration from nature’s imperfect beauty and resilience and is shaped by the evolving realities of womanhood and motherhood.

Artist Statement

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After stepping away from the relentless pace of New York City, where I built a career in fast fashion while navigating the demands of raising twins, I found myself uncertain of how to define my value beyond motherhood. My artistic practice emerged not only through creative exploration but as part of a philanthropic pursuit—a way to rediscover purpose and identity beyond my domestic role. Rather than returning to formal education, I channeled my skills into supporting local nonprofits, all while quietly cultivating my craft through classes and workshops.

I craved a way to slow down and process it all. My work became that space—a place to reflect and to study the quiet lessons found in the natural world. I am drawn to nature’s resiliency, its cycles of destruction and renewal, and the repetitive patterns and organic forms that reveal both fragility and endurance. Much like motherhood, nature is expected to be endlessly giving and quietly enduring, yet both are undervalued and unprotected in a capitalist society. My work draws from that contradiction.

I work with porcelain—a material that is both precious and fragile, yet strengthened through repeated firings at extreme temperatures—mirroring the tension between perceived fragility and undeniable strength. In these qualities, I see echoes of the feminine, but also of the greater human condition and our connection to the earth itself.

At its core, my work is a meditation on resilience—on the overlooked strength of what appears delicate, and on the power of transformation through repetition, endurance, and time. There is beauty in the persistence of natural growth, in the fractal patterns that repeat endlessly, and in the slow, steady processes that shape both nature and life. As technology looks to reshape what society values yet again, I find myself drawn to preserving the raw human element in my work—leaving fingerprints, embracing imperfection, allowing traces of process to remain visible.

I find joy in the meticulous yet imperfect act of creation—not to capture a polished snapshot of nature or identity, but to hold their essence. Where I once hesitated to make work that felt “too female,” I now lean into the convergence of natural and feminine resilience—finding in it a way to process my own experience while offering a window into the quiet endurance and regenerative potential that binds us to each other and to the natural world.

CV

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Education

Bachelor of Arts Fashion Design, Kent State University, OH

Selected Exhibitions

2025 ALG Fine Art, Dallas, TX

2025 Art on Main Street, Dallas, TX

2025 Bloom, Winnsboro Center for the Arts, Dallas, TX

2024 ALG Fine Art, Dallas, TX

2022 The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Art, Dallas, TX

Commissions

2024 Maple Terrace Lobby, Saatchi Art Hospitality, Dallas, TX

Teaching

2024 Instructor, Dallas Arboretum Creative Artist Series, Dallas, TX

2023 Instructor, Dallas Arboretum Creative Artist Series, Dallas, TX

Donations

2025 DCAC Art for Advocacy, Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, Dallas, TX

2025 Dwell with Dignity, Dallas, TX

2024 - 2017 Pattern making, Product Development & Design Consultant, Vickery Trading Co., Dallas, TX

2023 - 2019 Mockingbird Elementary PTA Auction Art Chair, Dallas, TX

2021 Silent Auction Chair, Mockingbird Elementary PTA Board, Dallas, TX

2019 - 2017 Carnival Chair, Mockingbird Elementary PTA Board, Dallas, TX

Professional development

2025 Porcelain & Electroforming Workshop with Luca Tripaldi, Florence, Italy

2024 Paperclay Workshop with Rebecca Hutchinson, Dallas, TX

2024 Art of Ceramics with Lynn Armstrong, Creative Art Center, Dallas, TX

2023 Creative Clay Sculpture with Daniel German, Creative Art Center, Dallas, TX

2022 Art of Throwing with Nathan Portnoy, Creative Art Center, Dallas, TX

2021 Cyanotypes, Creative Art Center, Dallas, TX

2021 Watercolor, Creative Art Center, Dallas, TX

2021 Stained Glass, Creative Art Center, Dallas, TX