My light sensitive work [specifically my installation “Dark Adaptation” first shown at Bert Green Fine Art Chicago in 2017] is featured in relation to darkroom processes as concept in this newly published textbook by Chelsea Shannon and Mark Chen. Honored to be included in such an extensive and expansive text on photography that is geared towards the contemporary, university-level student who has come of age in the era of digital photography and social media. Packed with content and features many artists that I know and admire. Photography: A 21st Century Practice Mark Chen and Chelsea Shannon Routledge’s Focal Press 1st edition, Oct 2020

re | process February 1 - March 18, 2021 Virtual Exhibition Harper College, Palatine, IL

Strange Fire Collective

Q&A: Julie Weber By Jess T. Dugan 

Julie Weber is an artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Working conceptually within the framework of photography, Weber is interested in the medium as subject matter through exploration of photographic materiality and process. Recent solo exhibitions include re|process at The Alice Wilds (Milwaukee, WI) and re|materialize at Seerveld Gallery (Palos Heights, IL). She received a BA from Dominican University (2006) and earned her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2014).

Artists for Action June 26 - July 25, 2020 The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI

Artists for Action features over 20 artists from The Alice Wilds and the community, contributing work and coming together in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. As we continue to witness police brutality toward the Black community and recognize the realities of systemic racism across our nation, we want to take action. 100 percent of the proceeds from this exhibition will be donated to organizations that have been selected by the artists to forward this movement.

Remnants B-side #11, 2017 is in the silent auction at CAC’s upcoming benefit.

Chicago Artists Coalition's Annual Benefit & 45th Anniversary Celebration Date TBA - Postponed until further notice amid COVID-19 Venue: Knoll Showroom in Fulton Market

2020 Honorees: Nick Cave & Bob Faust Special Recognition: Jeff Shapack Co-chairs: Maggie & Michael Meiners and Gary Metzner & Scott Johnson

Filter Photo’s Photography Book Club

Meeting 1: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 / 7-9pm

Theme: analog material exploration and cameraless photography

Filter Photo welcomes photobook enthusiasts in a casual monthly gathering with host Julie Weber that will explore the photographic book form through historical and contemporary examples. Each session will present a thematic selection of books for discussion and participants are invited to bring in additional books to consider with the group. Books will be examined for a synergy of both form and content, historical relevance, production qualities, and cultural impact.

This program is free but RSVP is preferred.

An Object of Their Own Jessica Labatte, Nicole White, and Sarah Phyllis Smith & Douglas Degges February 8 – March 12, 2020 Curated by Julie Weber

Perspectives Gallery Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

An Object of Their Own constitutes a kind of photography that is driven by a symbiotic and inextricable connection between process and representation. The works in this exhibition depict the unique properties inherent to the photographic materials and apparatuses used in their making; simultaneously, they also depict the outward world that was composed before the lens. Each of the artists reconciles this duality in ways that encourage us to think about the photographic surface as a site for mark marking and gestural intervention.

FOTOFILMIC18 January 30 – March 7, 2020

The Reference, Seoul, South Korea

FOTOFILMIC18 is the 6th edition of FotoFilmic’s traveling exhibition competition presenting 30 emerging and mid-career photographers from 12 nations in representation of material practices in contemporary photography. Unique in its genre and scope, the exhibition assembles a wide range of analogue and film-based photographic methods collectively picturing a resurgent attraction to, and preoccupation with the materiality of photographic envisioning in a world increasingly defined by computational measures. Reclaiming a core artistic wholeness to the experiencing and interpreting of reality through the positive limitations inherent to analogue capture and media, each photograph offers a fascinating glimpse into photography’s fluid present, and constant reinvention since 1839.

Exhibition Jurors included photographic artists Joachim Brohm (Essen, Germany) and Greg Girard (Vancouver, Canada) as well as renowned international curators of contemporary photography and art Joachim Naudts (Curator, FOMU, Antwerpen, Belgium), Barrie Mowatt (President, Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada), Heather Snider (Executive Director, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA) and Jeong Eun Kim (IANN & The Reference, Seoul, South Korea).

Previous Exhibition Dates & Venues: VANCOUVER: May 17 – June 16, 2019, the Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, Canada. SAN FRANCISCO: October 10 – December 20, 2019, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, USA.

ROLL CALL January 28th – May 29th

Opening Reception: January 28th / 3-5pm

Study Hall PrattMWP, Utica, NY

Artists: Brennan Booker, Nakeya Brown, Widline Cadet, Kelli Connell, Marcus DeSieno, Barbara Diener, Jess T. Dugan, Kris Graves, Michael W. Hicks, Tommy Kha, Natalie Krick, Ian Lewandowski, Zora J. Murff, Jeff Phillips, Elizabeth Renstrom, June T Sanders, Rafael Soldi, tamara suarez porras, Ka-Man Tse, Martin Wannam, Lindley Warren Mickunas, Julie Weber, Rana Young

re | materialize November 5 - December 6, 2019

Lecture & Reception: Thursday, November 7 / 6-9pm

Seerveld Gallery Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL

re | materialize brings together works from three project threads in Weber’s practice that all stem from repurposing, reimaging, and recontextualizing found or existing photographic materials.

Relate, Regard, Respond: Panel Discussion Julie Weber, Nick Albertson, Ross Sawyers

Sunday, October 27, 2019 / 11:00am

The Alice Wilds 900 South 5th Street, Suite 102, Milwaukee, WI

This event is in conjunction with SPE Midwest 2019: Communities, Collaborations, & Collectives.

Lensless September 27 - October 26, 2019 Cressman Center, Louisville, KY The works in Lensless, including chemigrams, photograms, and lumen prints, engage with current trends in which the camera is superfluous to the production of photographic images. Featured Artists: Ian Cambell, Tracy Longley-Cook, Brent Dedas, Anita Douthat, Mitch Eckert, Ruth Foote, Larry Gawel, Barbara Houghton, Cal Kowal, Margaret LeJeune, Martha Madigan, Anne Arden McDonald, Joe Minek, Heather Stratton, Gregory Spaid, Rachid Togoulla, and Julie Weber Curated by Mitch Eckert

FALL 2019 EXHIBITIONS

AUG 02 - SEP 14   Annual Art Faculty Exhibition at WCC, Sugar Grove, IL SEP 20 - NOV 02   re | process at The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI SEP 27 - OCT 26   Lensless at Cressman Center UofL, Louisville, KY OCT 08 - OCT 31   The Lucent Image at Ford Gallery EMU, Ypsilanti, MI OCT 10 - DEC 20   FotoFilmic18 at SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA NOV 05 - DEC 06   re | materialize at Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL

Shredded Film, Digital Alchemy & Cameraless Photography Daniel McCullough, Kyle Seis, and Julie Weber; moderated by Tyler Friedman

Saturday, February 23, 2019 / 2:00pm

The Alice Wilds 900 South 5th Street, Suite 102, Milwaukee, WI

Chicago Now: Panel Discussion Alex Jason Cohen, Alex Wallbaum, Brendan Carroll, David Kasnic, Jeanne Donegan, Jessica Pierotti, Julie Weber, and Michael Egon Schiele; curated by Joshua Aronson

Saturday, February 16, 2019 / 3:00-4:30pm

Congruent Space 1216 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL