Selling Your Art on Instagram, with Julia Powell

A discussion with Julia Powell, moderated by Margaret Sheldon

You’ve created your Instagram account, connected with followers, mastered hashtags, and have a devoted following. So, now what?

Join Julia Powell (@juliaspowellart), in conversation with Margaret Sheldon, to learn how Julia has leveraged her 60k-plus followers on Instagram to sell her artwork and build a full-time, fine art career.

Julia and Margaret’s discussion will be followed by a brief Q&A session

About Julia Powell:  Julia lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and holds degrees from Stanford and Yale.

Julia has recently been profiled in Boston Magazine, with her paintings also featured in Marie Claire Magazine and Architectural Digest. She was chosen as the VIP print artist for the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston 2017 Summer Gala. Previous VIP prints artists have paintings in the permanent collection of the MFA Boston. In 2017, her painting Haiku was accepted into the juried  2017 MFA Boston Summer Auction Show. In 2016, Julia’s painting Birch Series 6 was accepted into the juried MFA Boston Summer Auction Show and was the highest-selling and most bid-on painting at the Auction.

Her artwork was also featured on the television show "The Mindy Project" (formerly on FOX and Hulu). Her paintings can also be found in many private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe South America and Asia.

She has relationships with Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, Star Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine and Adelman Gallery in San Diego, California. 

About Margaret Sheldon: In the Bronx parochial school  where I spent much of my childhood, Art class was the highlight of my week. That carried into my high school, college and post grad years. Regardless of the nature of the problem, I usually tried to solve it by drawing it out.

Today, I spend my life drawing and painting, still trying to find the answers to all questions visually. When I'm not in the studio, I do my best to attend to my website and I occassionally blog. I'm lucky enough to co-host Artists Helping Artists with Leslie Saeta, where we talk about the life of the artists and the practice of art. The best part for me is interviewing artists whose work I admire... haven't met one yet that didn't like and wished I could get to know better.