PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Owner, Julie Peck Ceramics, 1996 – present

    • Creating work for exhibition, sales and commission                                                                                                                                                                                                 

  • Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS Residency, 2011 – 2023

    • Fifteen, 4-5 month long residencies, designing, teaching and installing large scale, ceramic projects in a number of regional schools

  • Visual Arts Artist Fellowship Grant, Somerville Arts Council, 2023

  • Somerville Art Council Project Grants, 2020, 2013, 2010

    • 3-4 month residencies, designing, teaching and installing a permanent installation or gallery exhibition

  • Instructor, Mudflat Pottery School, Somerville, MA, 1995 – present

  • Participant and volunteer, Somerville Open Studios annual event, 2000 – present

  • Instructor, Indigo Fire, Watertown, MA, 2023 – present

  • Participant, Brickbottom Open Studios annual event, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

  • Instructor, Artist Talk and 2-day workshop, Feats of Clay, Brookline, MA, 2024

  • Instructor, Amplify Your Voice, Mystic Learning Center & Mudflat Collaboration, Somerville, MA 2022

    • Lead a multi-generational class designing, fabricating and installing a ceramic mural at the Mystic Housing Development

  • Instructor, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA, 2021

  • Instructor, Artist Talk and 2-day workshop at Sawmill Pottery, Putnam, CT, 2021

  • Instructor, 2-day workshop at Local Pottery, Norwell, CT, 2019

  • Ceramics Specialist, Pequot/Sherwood Overnight Camp, Ivoryton, CT, summers of 2006 – 2018

EXHIBITIONS

2026

  • Five Visions: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Arts Collaborative, Medford, Medford, MA

    • Curator and exhibitor

2025

  • New England Biennial 2, NH Art Association, Portmouth, NH

    • Excellence in Abstraction Award

  • Wichita National All Craft Media Exhibition, Mark Arts Gallery, Wichita, KS

    • Honorable Mention Award

  • State of Clay, Lexington, MA

    • Juror’s Award Best in Show

  • The Art of the Alchemist, TAG Gallery, Boston, MA

  • Texture, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, TAG Gallery, Boston,MA

  • State of Clay Indiana, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

  • In My Space Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

  • Kalamazoo College Alumni Invitational, Kalamazoo, MI

2024

  • Meld, Solo Exhibition, Launchpad, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA

  • Transcending Perfection, TAG The Art Gallery, Boston, MA

  • Embracing Uncertainty, New England Art Center, Boston, MA

  • Future Craft, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

  • Brickbottom Member Show, Somerville, MA

  • Ceramics Biennial 2024, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT

  • Earthworks, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA

  • Color Pop, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Saratoga, NY

2023

  • Lushly Juried exhibition at NCECA, Fern, Cincinnati, OH

  • Earth and Fire, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV

  • Green House, Mission Creek Gallery, Iowa City, IA

  • State of Clay, Juror’s Award for Outstanding Functional Work, LexArt, Lexington, MA

  • Strictly Functional Pottery National Show, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

  • Small Works Exhibit, Jag Gallery, Key West, FL

2022

  • Natural Visions, Lex Art, Lexington, MA

  • Small Works Show, Bow Street Market, Somerville, MA

  • Annual Cup Show, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA

2021

  • Solo Exhibition, Sawmill Pottery, Putnam, CT

  • Squish, Fold, Twist, Barrington Center for the Arts, Gordon College, Wenham, MA

  • Reflection/Reawakening/Resilience, Lex Art, Lexington, MA

  • The Endless Cup, Clay Arts Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

  • The State of Clay, Lex Art, Lexington, MA

EDUCATION

  • MFA Program in Artisanry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA

  • Graduate Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 

  • BA, Fine Arts / Mathematics, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI

AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS

  • NCECA

  • Fuller Craft Museum

  • Brickbottom Artist Association

  • New England Art Center / TAG Gallery 

  • New Hampshire Artist Association

PUBLISHED IMAGES

  • 500 Tiles, pgs. 228-229, Lark Ceramics Book, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, 2008

  • 500 Vases, pg. 144, Lark Ceramics Book, Ray Hemachandra 

  • Ceramics Monthly, Exposure, pg 18, May 2025

  • Diatoms: Biology and Applications, Volume 13: Diatoms in the Arts and Crafts, 2026 

INFLUENTIAL EXPERIENCES

  • University of Massachusetts/AR.CO Student Exchange Program, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Apprentice, Moravian Pottery and Tileworks, Doylestown, PA