Julie Lapping Rivera: An Artist’s Journey Portraying Daring Women

Julie Lapping Rivera’s series Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women features woodcut and collage portraits of exceptional, pioneering women, such as Sylvia Plath, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ida B. Wells, and Henrietta Lacks. 

Julie began her career in New York, working as a teaching artist with the Studio In a School Association, Museum of Modern Art, and Lincoln Center Institute. She taught at Smith College, and currently is a faculty member and mentor with Zea Mays Printmaking in Massachusetts. 

Julie is the recipient of a 2026 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient in Drawing, and has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her work in arts and education. Her artist residencies include Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, as visiting guest artist representing the Boston Printmakers, and La Muse, France.

Julie earned her MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute and her BFA in Printmaking from the University of Massachusetts. 

 “Look Again” was on display at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Alpert Gallery, Springfield, MA through February 2025. A larger iteration of the project is now traveling with Exhibit Enjoy. It most recently was seen at the Loveland Museum in Colorado and the Grace Hudson Museum in California.

Wine and cheese reception from 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm, with the talk at 6:30 pm

The talk is free and open to the public.