Creativity, Learning, and the Inner Life of The Artist: A Conversation with Artist and Author Juliette Aristides

Please join The Academy Art Museum for a conversation with artist, educator, and author Juliette Aristides and Shore Lit Director Kerry Folan. Juliette’s newest book, “The Inner Life of the Artist’” was released in 2025 by Monacelli Press and explores the creative mind and the impulses of making art.

Juliette Aristides is a Seattle based painter who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art. Aristides exhibited nationally in one person and group shows including solo museum exhibitions such as  “Observations” in Reading, PA and “A Life’s Work” at the Customs House Museum, TN.  She received  Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. She is the recipient of the Elisabeth Greenshields Grant and is recognized as a living master by The Art Renewal Center. She is the director of the Aristides Atelier, first at Gage and now on-line, which just celebrated its 25th year. Juliette is the author of seven books, including Classical Painting Atelier and Lessons in Classical Drawing.

Kerry Folan is a reader, a writer, and a professor of writing and literature at George Mason University. She was formerly the editor of Women in the Arts magazine and the fashion news website Racked.com. Her essays and journalism have appeared in popular outlets and literary journals including ARTNews, Atlas Obscura, the Baltimore Review, BOMB, The Cut, Glamour, Hippocampus, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, and the Washington Post, among others. She has been living on the Eastern Shore since 2017 and earnestly believes in the power of books to expand our experience of the world and to create a more connected community. If you see her walking her greyhound Pilot around town, stop and tell her what you’re reading!

This event is FREE and open to the public!