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Julieve Jubin Biography-Short

Julieve Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. She is a photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the photographic image. She has been an artist in residence at The Banff Centre in the Canadian Rockies and most recently at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson Vermont. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and London. Her work is in the collection of the New York University Law School, the Peddler Foundation, and several private collections. She has worked and taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue University, and now teaches at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Career Path

In retrospect:

I started out wanting to study photography and art. I attended Parson's School of Design in NYC. I then realized I wanted more of a liberal arts education rather than study strictly at an art school. I transfered to SUNY Albany to study both German Literature and Art.

After graduating, I had multiple art-related jobs working in a frame shop, art casting foundry, forensic photography, and teaching photography classes at a local art center. After a few years, I decided attend graduate school for my MFA in photography at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. I was strongly committed to continuing my art practice and saw teaching college as the best career option for me. I studied photography and multimedia, becoming savvy in current practices, theory, and technologies. Also, there was an internship requirement as part of my degree requirement. We were encouraged to seek an internship relating to what we wanted to do post-graduation, so I applied for a visiting teaching position at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and taught multimedia there for a summer and semester. This was essentially the beginning of my university teaching experience.

Although my plan was to find a teaching position, I was offered a job two weeks before graduating at Xerox to design and produce their intranet sites. I was fortunate enough to graduate at a time when the dot com industry was on the rise. This job was good experience, but I wanted to move back to NYC. I applied for jobs in the city and almost immediately was hired at a firm in downtown Manhattan to be the artistic director, designer, and co-producer of their financial products. It was exciting to work in the corporate world for while, but I was spending far too much on dry cleaning. After one year, I applied for a job at The Cooper Union School of Art for a photo techician/management job overseeing their large photography area. This was my way back into academia, and an exciting environment to work in. I taught digital photography workshops while also supervising the photography facilities and classes. After two years, I was ready to apply for a tenure-track position and was fortunate enough to be hired at Purdue University for a three-year Visiting Professor position. I taught four classes a semester and just about every aspect of photography. I continued to pursue my work. After three years, I applied for the tenure-track position at SUNY Oswego. Five years later...

I have been working continuously on my artwork and exhibiting regionally, nationally, in Canada, and London. I have traveled extensively, including a trip to London to teach a course, "Photography in London." I have received several grants, lectured on my work, and exhibited competitively.

My current goals are to live a healthy lifestyle, and remain engaged in my artistic practice and teaching.