Julia was born Judith Ann Wiederanders in San Francisco in 1945. Raised in California, she received her BA in Sociology from Pomona College, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a mining camp in Bolivia, and later earned an MBA from Stanford. Julia has two children and two step-children. Julia has always been drawn to creative endeavors. Her art career emerged in fits and starts: she started college as an art major; attended art school after college; painted as a young mother; and worked as a graphic designer before deciding to take on the corporate world. After a five-year stint there, she began to paint seriously in 1988. She has exhibited her paintings and drawings in group, juried, and solo shows. Her creative work has deepened as a result of explorations into esoteric studies, teaching, ancestor research, and self-development. Julia has studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles), the Academy of Art (San Francisco), and the Corcoran School of Art (Washington, DC). She has mentored girls in the arts and taught classes at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM. Back