Julia Bryan-Wilson

Julia Bryan-Wilson is an author, scholar, educator, and artist whose research includes feminist and queer theory, craft history, performance, video art, artistic activism, and coalitional politics. Her most recent book, Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009), explores the politicization of artistic labor in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s, within the Art Workers’ Coalition and the New York Art Strike. She has received awards from the Henry Moore Institute, the Smithsonian Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and a joint award from Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. Bryan-Wilson has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of California, Irvine. She is currently on leave from UC Irvine, acting as a Visiting Scholar in Craft Theory at the California College of the Arts in Oakland.

Lives and works in Oakland, CA.