Artist Bio
This whole freaky facade is constructed from discarded products of American abundance. Hello my name is Julia Arredondo. I am a traveling Tejana with working-class roots who is navigating the changing landscape of creative economies within the United States.
I am originally from Corpus Christi, Texas and received my BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and my MFA from Columbia College Chicago. I’m formally trained in printmaking and specialize in artistic forms of independent publishing, having founded Vice Versa Press and Curandera Press as my entrepreneurial debuts. I launched QTVC Live!, a DIY home shopping channel, in 2020 and am currently planning additional programming. My practice explores alternative empowerment and reimagines business structures and spiritual philosophies as platforms for play and experimentation.
Title: Baltimore Breakups: A Pop-Up Memoir zine
Medium: Photocopy on paper, Double Tack adhesive, saddle bound with staples
Size: 6” x 8”, 5 page spreads
Year: 2014 (reprinted and assembled in 2026)
Baltimore Breakups: A Pop-Up Memoir is a five-page pop-up zine, reprinted and hand-assembled in Portland, Maine. Baltimore Breakups illustrates my most memorable romantic breakups while living in Baltimore during my undergraduate career at the Maryland Institute College of Art. This zine was produced as part of an Artist Residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Boca Raton, FL. The zine is saddle-stitched and was originally published through Vice Versa Press in 2014.
Baltimore Breakups was awarded the Baltimore Citypaper’s “Best Pop-Up Book” in 2015. Read the article HERE. My Summer 2026 intern from the Maine College of Art and Design, Elliot Noon, helped cut out all of the individual parts for the zine and this reprint would not have been possible without him!