Julie Heffernan is a talented painter born in Peoria, IL. She has studied at BFA with High Honors in Paintings and Printmaking at University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
Awards :
SCOPE Award for Artistic Achievement, City of Santa Cruz, CA
MFA in Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
E. H. Schless Prize for Highest Achievement in Painting, Yale College, New Haven, CT
Fulbright-Hayes, Grant to West Berlin, Germany
Annette Kade Grant for the Creative and Performing Arts
Artist-in-Residence and Studio Grant, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
Painting Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Art III Award, Centre de Recherche et Mediation Valence, France
College Faculty Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Project Residency Grant, Hillwood Art Museum, NY
Individual Artist’s Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
Institute Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Artist’s Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
Artist in Residence, Lila Acheson Wallace Reader’s Digest Artist at Giverny, Giverny, France
