Julia Westerbeke is a Bay Area-based artist, writer and educator. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, most recently at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Westerbeke grew up in Mill Valley and Sonoma, and her work is informed by the natural landscape of both, as well as her childhood-–and subsequent career-– in her mother’s fashion design studio. Subtle references to design and a celebration of the decorative are embedded into her art practice, as seen through a feminist lens.

Westerbeke is the co-founder of Time | Material, an art collective created for artists who are also parents, and the founder/curator of The Red Wood, a virtual exhibition in response to the ongoing California wildfires. She is also a longtime member of A.I.R. Gallery, an artist-run non-profit organization and exhibition space in New York for women and non-binary artists.