EducationThe State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF)
MLA 2024, Landscape Architecture

Syracuse University
College of Visual and Performing Arts
BFA, Fiber Art and Material Studies

Lycée Jean De Pange Sarreguemines, France (Términale L)
Rotary Club Year-Long Scholarship Recipient



Julia Lines WilsonI am a process-driven, interdisciplinary artist whose practice interlaces weaving, sculpture, and landscape architecture to co-create spaces for inter-species connections. By using the language and framework of a craft like weaving at the landscape scale, I’m able to move across fields of study and scales. I consider landscape weaving to be a form of “visible mending:” it has become a philosophical and physical framework for my work. I propose mending not to fix and forget, but to move forward through careful acts of creation. Materials become, simultaneously, living memory and potential future. Repetitive, iterative, methodical labor measures time, builds knowledge, and becomes a proposal in how to live on this land. My practice accepts and celebrates transient, impermanent states, thinking through how we might move into the future while acknowledging and taking responsibility for both the thoughtful and thoughtless changes we make to the land.

The material works are temporal: intended to return to the earth. They record moments in time and place, and then are released back into the stream. Returning the work to the earth is a practice of letting go; of continual transformation. In weaving, the working edge that contains the most recently placed weft thread is called “the fell.” The fell line acts as a continual "now" as the weaver works, between the future warp yarns to be woven with weft and the past tense woven roll of cloth. Woven mesh captures memory objects in the textile of the present. By weaving plant materials, soil, and memory objects, I capture the present while pondering future changes: what we might bring into the future with us, and what we might leave behind.

Collaboration and co-creation are integral to my work. I invite participants to join in the parts of the preparation, construction, weaving, installation, and care of the work I make, as a way of creating links with others, links to the landscape, and links to the world around us. We are all inter-connected and inter-related. Through the work I make, I am trying to figure out how to live together on this continually changing land. Embodied experience becomes activation of space becomes civic engagement becomes community building.


Map Histories Grew up on Aquidneck Island in the smallest state with the longest name.
Moved to a border town on the Sarre and Blies Rivers in France.
Studied in Syracuse, a CNY snow capital, and Florence Italy.
Lived and worked in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Tree-filled Philadelphia adventures every day.
Working anew on the west coast, a return to the ocean.
A return to the Gritty City, then a return to the Salt City, where to (return to) next?

CVAvailable upon request (jlineswilson@gmail.com)
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