Julianna Kirwin is a printmaker and educator whose work is informed by her experiences along the Camino Real stretching from New Mexico to Mexico. Working representationally, Kirwin’s prints utilize stencils, woodcut, linocut and monotype. Her training as a printmaker has primarily taken place in hands-on sessions with teachers in New Mexico and in Oaxaca, Mexico. She received a bachelor's degree in Art Education and a master’s in Bilingual Education from the University of New Mexico. She has held a long-term interest in corn, and often creates portraits of her grandmother as well as historic and contemporary figures who have contributed to Pan-American identity. She believes that printmaking is a way to bridge cultures and utilizes her Spanish language skills to study with printmakers such as Federico Valdez and Enrique Flores in Oaxaca, bringing those experiences back to New Mexico to teach to others. Recent residencies in the US include Kala Art Institute in Berkeley and Zea Mays Printmaking in North Hampton, MA. In 2023 she was one of three local artists awarded by the ABQ Public Art to work with Tamarind Institute Workshop in creating a lithograph. Her piece, “Mariachi Story”, was exhibited that same year at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and is part of their permanent collection. Kirwin is also a founder of Herstory Printmaking Collective, a women’s printmaking collective that features street style imagery: printed portraits of women in the style of political street art wheat pasted to walls. The collective hosts public printmaking events and received a grant to install “Women of the Rails” at the Santa Fe Railyards Park in 2023.