Julia Vanderpool
Julia Vanderpool is a Charleston-based artist whose work spans serigraphs, textiles, and film photography, unified by an interest in storytelling, color, and process. Formerly a photojournalist for four newspapers and a photographer since 1986, she paused her creative career to raise her four daughters and manage a family business before returning to practice in 2024.
Her reentry began in 2023, taking classes and using the black-and-white photography darkroom at Redux Contemporary Art Center. She moved into a studio artist position there in spring 2026, setting up in Studio 21, also known as “Blue Zone.” She teaches indigo dyeing workshops and serves as Event Coordinator at Redux. Immersing herself in Redux's offerings led her from the darkroom into silkscreen printing and indigo dye. In 2025, she received the South Carolina Arts Commission's FY25 Emerging Artist Grant, culminating in her debut solo show, Greyscale to Chroma: Vibrant Silkscreen Prints Reimagining Black & White Narratives. That same year she was juried into the South Carolina Artisan Center in Walterboro. In 2026, she received the South Carolina Arts Commission's Supporting Artist Grant for her festivals and art markets.
Her indigo and textile work includes a current outdoor installation, Forgive Us Our Ancestors, at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Her work has appeared in group shows at Moja Arts Festival (2025), Drummond Studio Gallery (2025, 2026), Nidum Gallery (2025), and Redux (2024, 2025, 2026), S.C. Artisan Center (presently) with an upcoming appearance in Analog, a silkscreen printer show at Drummond Studio Gallery opening August 28, 2026.
