Videos




Online Exhibition Event
Beauty & Spirit Abstract Artist Circle 2022 Culminating Online Exhibition

Hear stories from the Circle as teaching artist Julie Bernstein Engelmann hosts presentations by three artists - Beth A. Bernstein, Lorna Cole, and Michelle Noel Hurteau - about their body of artwork created over the year. See the online exhibition here.
For timing to click to specific content, view description on YouTube or use Content timing. 53:37 minutes.






In an Online Exhibition Event (55:37 min), the artists speak about their work:
Color Mixing for Abstract Painters
Tips and demo

Abstract artist Julie Bernstein Engelmann demonstrates two important keys to mixing the colors you want, six useful color mixtures, and a painting that puts them together. Download her free Color Mixing Tips chart.
Useful in The Inspired Abstract workshop. To view with captions, click to YouTube. 9:08 minutes.






Abstract Painting Workshops
with Julie Bernstein Engelmann

A brief introduction to the abstract painting workshops taught by artist Julie Bernstein Engelmann. To view with captions, click to YouTube. 2:11 minutes.






The Inspired Abstract - Painting Workshop

A little about my workshop, The Inspired Abstract. 2:52 minutes (turn up your speaker volume please).






Abstract Painting Spirit

I created this video as a window into the wonders of being an artist.

"Julie's Video of her art creating is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!!! I highly recommend that everyone give themselves the delight in viewing Julie's created beauty and inspiration. Viewing her video is completely uplifting!"
- Fawn Christianson, California



Abstract artist Julie Bernstein Engelmann demonstrates her creative painting process
(acrylic and poured latex) and discusses the Spirit in the paint.
Beautiful music by composer Bruce Mitchell. 9 minutes.

Transcription:

2:47 "You know you're being an artist when you feel that pulse flow through you, of present tense, excitement, aliveness, and beauty, and joy."


4:08 "When you create these things, they go out from you and they evolve into some other creation in the Universe. I feel as an artist that what I make--I put everything I can into it, but I also realize that it's not really exactly mine. It has a life of its own, and I try to honor that when I paint. I try to listen to the spirit of the painting to see where it wants to go--to see what beauty it wants to express."


5:38 "What we've done is we've made a gazillion fabulous possibilities that are unpredictable, that make your painting more interesting, possibly, than would have happened if you had just done it out of your contriving mind--you know, 'I'm going to paint a cool abstract painting.' We don't have that much richness in our minds, most of us."


7:22 "What I learned is that there's a spirit in the painting--like, in the paint itself, in the painting itself--and *that* will never lead you astray. And so, it's a co-workership. You have your sense of what you want to do in the painting, so you go ahead and get your brush ready with that color and that idea. And then, just before you put the paint on the canvas, you ask permission from the painting spirit: 'Do I have my brush the right angle? Do I have the right colors on it?' You know, sometimes I'll just dip the corner in a slightly different color. And I feel the brushstroke before it happens, you know: 'Oh, that's the way it's going to feel.' And then I just do it. Like, now I know what to do; there's confidence."




Finding My Voice: A Dance to Art

A retrospective of my artwork, "Being Spirit," was shown at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 2013. This video shows a dance "interacting with" my paintings at the show, choreographed by Jennifer Park and performed at the closing reception. The last five minutes show the audience joining in the dance in a very etherial and joyous time.
13.5 minutes.




In the choreographer's words:

"Finding My Voice" is a modern dance choreographed by Jennifer Park, based on an exploration of Julie Bernstein Engelmann's creative life as it transfers from canvas to dancers. Inspired by many of the stories behind Julie's abstract paintings, the dancers frame the works through movement, stillness, voice, reflection, and energy. Witness as the dancers communicate from painting to body back to painting... and eventually to audience!

The stunning cover photo is by Heather Stone Russell of Russell Art & Imagery, Indiana, PA.






Future Teachers Discover Art at IUP

In 2013 I did an artist residency for non-art major college sophomores who were going into education and special ed. The idea, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, was to give future teachers an intensive hands-on art experience so they could better include art in their early-childhood classrooms.

The university made a video about the residency. Here is their description on Youtube:

"ArtsPath and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania College of Education partnered to provide non-art education students the experience of an artist in the classroom. Hear from the students, professors, and artists who participated in this program."


4 minutes. I appear at minutes 1:04, 1:42, and 3:07.



The two professors who co-taught the course and I wrote an article about the residency that got published in Teaching Artist Journal. Here is the reference:

Julie Bernstein Engelmann, Alexandria Kappel & Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran (2018) Moving Fiercely Linear Preservice Teachers into the Joys of Integrating Art in the Classroom: An Artist Residency in a University Early Childhood and Special Education Program. Teaching Artist Journal, 16:1-2, 5-18