Julie Marie Richey
Artist
We believe sacred art must be symbolically structured and theologically resonant. We work collaboratively with clients to create engaging, original art that endures, while also meeting design priorities and functional requirements.
Julie Richey graduated from the University of Dallas (BA �87) and was a Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholar to Perugia, Italy. She began making mosaics in 1991 and now creates custom residential and commercial installations in the US, Italy and Mexico. Her sculptures have been exhibited across the US and Italy, at the Ravenna Mosaico Biennial and the Orsoni Smalti foundry in Venice, where she earned the 2009 International Grand Prize for mosaic.
Julie designs and fabricates large works for public and sacred spaces. She enjoys the challenge of creating unique, site-specific mosaics for memorable place-making. She and her team have created custom mosaics for baptismal fonts, columbaria, altarpieces, stations of the cross and bishops� crests. In 2017, her team won Preservation Dallas� award for the restoration of the St. Jude Chapel mosaic fa�ade in Dallas, TX.
APPROACH
Julie Richey is the founder of Julie Richey Mosaics, LLC. She is the lead point of contact for clients. From initial design meetings to fabrication and post-installation polish, JRM LLC oversees the entire project to completion.
PHILOSOPHY
Informed by the liturgy, history and tenets of faith, mosaics are a dynamically integrated collaborator. Each commission we approach, as the designers and fabricators, brings a fresh exploration of the possibilities present in the prompt: to bring a new way of seeing familiar stories, and to employ �art in service of the sacred.�
TRADITIONS SERVED
Our primary experience and expertise is with Catholic religious art, but we have worked with clients of many faiths and backgrounds and are happy to do so.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, 1987, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Graduate studies in Medieval and Gothic art and architecture, Universit� degli Studi di Perugia, 1987-88
Master of Mosaics Workshop, 2005 and 2009, Orsoni Smalti Veneziani, Venice, Italy
SERVICES
Custom mosaic design and fabrication; site installation and restoration. Project management from initial client meetings to design, fabrication and installation.
SPECIALIZATION
Fonts
Mosaic
