Julie Lee, Director of arthousegallery, is an accomplished art curator and recognized art consultant with an impressive track record of producing innovative and highly successful art events. Julie brings a long-standing, diverse and unique background in media and visual arts to her art consulting business.

Following a notable career in the Film and Television industry, during which time she produced award winning international feature films and television programs, she moved into an area of increasing interest to her, namely, art curating, consulting and art event production.

Julie began her art career employed by a number of art galleries in Vancouver during which time she developed enduring relationships with artists and patrons throughout Canada and internationally. She was the art curator and manager of Vancouver's Winsor Gallery, as well as a gallerist at Elliott Louis Gallery and manager of the VOX Gallery.

As part of her numerous community involvements, Julie was an art committee member of Art For Life, an annual art auction for the Friends in Need Society, and has served as a consultant for Art for AIDS - a fundraiser for The Nelson Mandela Foundation. She is also a founding director of Drawn, Canada's first city wide drawing festival.

Julie excelled in her position over the last three years as Executive Director of Unite with Art, a global initiative for UNICEF Canada's 'Unite for Children Unite against AIDS' campaign. The inaugural event in June 2008 raised over $277,000 for UNICEF and the total proceeds following the third event in June of 2010, approached a remarkable $1,000,000.

It was in July 2005 that Julie created arthousegallery.ca to serve as an online gallery for her consulting business and to showcase her art events.

Her premiere event in 2005 was 'Moja Moja'- an innovative fair trade exhibit combining original art with youth photography from Northern Kenya. A year later she developed the concept into 'Regeneration', a project highlighting the artistic talents of youth from the Lax Kw'alaams First Nations Band in Port Simpson and demonstrating the effective use of art as social tool. The success of these first two exhibitions secured the foundation for 'Continuous Land-art connects people'- a five continent, ongoing project, featuring youth art exhibits spanning Africa, North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

In her capacity as an art consultant, Julie provides her clients in corporate, private and public arenas with services ranging from consultation and collection building to installation, framing and shipping. Among her corporate clients are banks, law firms, high tech companies, and architects. Julie also assists clients to select art for their homes, including island hideaways, urban lofts and modern mansions. Her clientele ranges from long-time collectors to novices in the art world.

Client Services:

• Acquisitions and decorative consultation
• Collection building
• Framing, hanging and installation
• Shipping arrangements including: packing, professional crating, and insurance