Julie Keefe is an artist with 25+ years' experience working primarily in documentary and community-based art. Her work includes installations and collaborations with a variety of institutions, health care organizations, artists, children and communities, including the Ask the Question Project, a multi-layered project that worked with suicide attempt survivors in the NW to tell their stories with the goal of saving lives and breaking stigma, Hello Neighbor, a state-wide public art project, in collaboration with Caldera's youth program, employing a social practice model in neighborhoods affected by change, and using interviews and photographs to introduce children to their neighbors and ultimately neighbors to each other by displaying largescale photographic portraits. From 2013 to 2017 she served as Portland's inaugural Creative Laureate, a position that uses the Office of the Mayor, and the Laureate role, as a platform to advocate for the arts, arts education, equity, creative industries and practice and Portland's overall cultural health.
