Julie Hammond is an artist working across performance, pedagogy, and intervention. As a theatre maker and instigator of public projects, her practice activates spaces with the performative, and investigates the relationship between performance and audience, spectator and place, site and story. Her work has been published in print magazines, seen on stages, hung in galleries, shared on the street, and supported by the Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Vancouver Park Board, Richmond Public Art, Vancouver New Music, the ArtStarts Gallery, and Vancouver Foundation, among others. She thrives on asking questions, paying attention, and working with other. Current research interests include using un- and de-skilled practices to reorient hierarchical relationships between subject/object, human/nature, giver/receiver, walks of all lengths, Rachel Carson, letters to places, and looking backwards.
From 2005-15, she created and performed in 12 full length shows with Portland, Oregon's Hand2Mouth, and toured work to La MaMa (NYC), On the Boards (Seattle), EMPAC (Troy, NY) The Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT), and PICA's Time-Based Art Festival (Portland), among others. From 2003-04 she assisted William Pope.L in development and touring of The Black Factory, including performances at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), the Tang Museum, and the Berkshire Mall.
Julie holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Practice from Simon Fraser University's School for Contemporary Arts (Vancouver, B.C.) and a BA in Theater (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Bates College (Lewiston, Maine). She currently lives and works in, on, and around the traditional territories of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, bands of the Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other Native Peoples who make their homes in the Portland basin / Wapato Valley along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers (Portland, OR).