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Julia Galloway is a utilitarian potter and professor. She was raised in Boston, Massachusetts and still considers herself a damn Yankee. Julia began making pottery in high school inspired by a peaceful classroom pottery studio, an innate hand eye skill, a love of beautiful objects, and support from a dedicated professor, Mr. Ed Lane. She bought her first pottery wheel with her babysitting money and threw pots in her bedroom until she went to college. Currently Julia lives in Missoula Montana. She teaches ceramics and is the Director of the School of Art. Julia’s studio is in a radically rebuilt garage she lives in an sweet little house that she shares with an old German Sheppard, Layla. Julia also has interest in urban gardening, the study of John James Audubon watercolors, the world history of pottery and a love of words she inherited from her mother. Having made utilitarian pottery for the past 25 year, she has now come to understand the world through the making of objects and value labor, the love of community and objects of beauty.