You can find Julia's drawings on a variety OF things: wallpaper, bedding, billboards, fabric, clothing, dishes, pillows, newspapers, magazines, books, subway posters, umbrellas, towels, mugs and more. 

Julia has authored/illustrated over seventeen books and hopes you might buy some of them for your library. You can purchase any of them on Amazon or Indiebound or support your local bookstore. 

She runs The Figure Assembly, with James Gallagher, a live drawing event on Sunday nights in Gowanus, Brooklyn. To attend or find out more go here.

Julia is the recipient of the 2023 Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf Visionary Award given by the Rhode Island School of Design.

For five years Julia had an illustrated column in the New York Times called Scratch with collaborator Shaina Feinberg about small businesses with big personalities.  

She has taught courses at School of Visual Arts and Rhode Island School of Design and led workshops at MoMA, Hauser & Wirth, Ludlow House and more.

Julia co-founded Women Who Draw, an open directory of female professional illustrators, artists and cartoonists with fellow illustrator Wendy MacNaughton. It was created in an effort to increase the visibility of female illustrators, emphasizing female illustrators of color, LBTQ+, and other minority groups of female illustrators. 

Often she collaborates with Jenny Volvovski and Matt Lamothe as ALSO. 

Julia works from her studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. She is married to the filmmaker Jan Oliver Lucks.

Follow along on her current projects on her Instagram @juliarothman.