Juliana Maurer is a designer based in Western North Carolina with a passion for community design, social practice, publication design, and all things printed.  

PUBLICATION

First, We Must Dream
When I Get Home
Contortions
Fight For A New Normal
When I Grow Up

BRANDING 

Blue Ridge Folk Fest
University of Roehampton
Another Asheville Brewery
BCRN

PRINTED MATTER

Variegation
Body As
Queer As In




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EDUCATION

Appalachian State University — Boone, NC
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design
August 2021 – May 2025

University of Roehampton — London, UK
Study Abroad
January 2024 – June 2024

Penland School of Craft — Spruce Pine, NC
Creating Artists’ Books
August 2023



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Design is a connective force. It connects us to our environment, culture, identity, and politics. It can subvert or reaffirm, disrupt or soften, create or deconstruct. It puts us in conversation with the world. At its core, it connects us to each other.



I am driven by a design that pushes us together and towards messy collaboration, generative discourse, and forward action. 

Through my work, I seek to challenge dominant power structures, build community networks, and create opportunities for collective liberation. I am excited by participatory and collaborative models of creation, both in and outside of formal design spaces. My commitment to engaged design is deeply rooted in social organizing, histories of direct action and community care, and art as a catalyst for change. 

As we struggle towards an uncertain future, I hope that my work can serve to build relationships across time, boundaries, and borders. 


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


2024 Asheville Zine Fest, Center for Craft

2024 Richmond Zine Fest, Richmond Public Library

2023 {Re}HAPPENING, Black Mountain College

2023 Artifact [Bold], Highpoint University

2022 Art + Design Expo, Smith Gallery

2021 Uncommon Market, Foundy Street

2020 National Scholastic Art and Writing Exhibitions, Carnegie Hall and virtual traveling exhibition

2019 Interkonnections, co-curator and exhibitor, University of North Carolina at Asheville

2019 National Scholastic Art and Writing Exhibitions, traveling exhibition at Pratt Institute and at galleries across the United States



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