Teaching Artist Samples
Artists: Julian Bozeman (collaborator: Sarah Conarro)
Date: 2025
Medium: Sound recording, collaborative songwriting, cultural exchange
Location: Red Clay, Tamale, Ghana (residency with Ibrahim Mahama)
Timestamp: 0:00-0:55
High school students taught us traditional Dagbani greetings while community members shared local phrases and proverbs. I recorded voices across all ages, facilitating collaborative songwriting and visual art-making integrating daily greetings with intergenerational cultural knowledge about respect and unity.
Ti Zaa Borila Taba // We Need Each Other
Artists: Julian Bozeman (collaborators: Farah Barqawi, Sarah Conarro)
Date: Spring 2025
Medium: Digital animation, video, sound recording, drawing, painting
Location: Parsons New School
Timestamp: 0:00-1:43
Students (grades 6-8) used their homes as artistic inspiration, building drawing/painting skills. I taught technical drawing (ie line and shading), then guided students in transforming analog work into digital animations/GIFs, layering their voice recordings.
Lines+Shapes Around Me
I See Things Change: When the Park Becomes the Classroom, Kids Become Faculty
Artists: Julian Bozeman (collaborator: Sarah Conarro)
Date: 2024-2025 (ongoing)
Medium: Sound recording, video, collaborative songwriting, visual art, environmental stewardship
Location: PS110+McGolrick Park, Brooklyn, NY
Timestamp: 1:01-1:28
Students captured park sounds and transformed them into musical compositions using audio samplers. I taught pitch manipulation of environmental recordings, creating beats from nature sounds, and facilitated collaborative songwriting about seasonal environmental change.
Artist Work Samples
Artists: Julian Bozeman
Date: 2024
Medium: four-channel video/sound installation
Location: N/A
Timestamp: 0:10-1:40
I made this video at a beach I used to swim at as a kid, combining footage with my vocals and ambient sound. Using old video gear, I explore getting older and environmental change - waves and rising tides as metaphor for what we're trying to hold onto when everything keeps shifting.
I’ve Got to Hold On
Artists: Julian Bozeman
Date: 2023
Medium: Performance+Projections
Location: C’mon Everybody, Brooklyn, NY
Timestamp: 0:30-1:00
I performed this 30-minute piece wearing all white with projectors on and around me, reimagining the traditional song to explore technology, isolation, and generational change. I project selected lyrics for emphasis while creating environments where audiences experience how time feels layered becoming part of the shifting visual world around them.
Home on the Range
Artists: Julian Bozeman
Date: 2014-2018
Medium: Video, Light, Sculpture, Sound Installation
Location: Multiple (Governors Island, Atlanta FilmFest, RedBull Music Festival (Montreal)
I use projection and light to alter time perception, creating light environments where people step outside habitual thinking. The shifting, fractured light patterns invite contemplative engagement with something ephemeral, demonstrating my interest in creating openings for awe/reflection on presence and memory.
New Projector
Adult Program Work Samples
Artists: Julian Bozeman (collaborator: Sarah Conarro)
Date: Spring 2020
Medium: Drawing, Voice Recording, Video (Zoom-based)
Location: Online
Timestamp: 1:51-3:11
Direct older adult (60+) programming with weekly sessions addressing social isolation (COVID). Participants from multiple states with no art backgrounds engaged in accessible drawing instruction and community building. Final collaborative products integrated work from all age groups.
-Demonstrates creating accessible entry points for older adults, building community across distance and facilitating creative expression-
Drawings and Thoughts
Artists: Julian Bozeman (collaborator: Sarah Conarro)
Date: Spring 2025
Medium: Video, Sound Recording, Color Pencil, Letter-writing
Location: PS018 Brooklyn, NY
Professional development workshop with adult learners of various ages (not exclusively older adults), demonstrating multimedia collaborative approach with green screen technology, drawing, and voice recording while respecting participants' expertise and creating accessible entry points.
-Shows current multimedia integration methods while honoring participants' knowledge and creating success experiences-
Line and Connection / Línea y Conexión
Artists: Julian Bozeman (collaborator: John Crowe)
Date: 2017-2022
Medium: Video Feedback
Location: Various Locations - Brooklyn, NY
Workshops with adult participants of various ages including older adults, demonstrating video feedback techniques where participants create abstract visuals through hand movements and light manipulation.
-Demonstrates video feedback expertise, making technology accessible while creating immediate visual success-
