Julie Holmes
With a B.A. in economics and 20 years spent working in corporate sales, Julie Holmes realized it was time to indulge her dream of learning graphic design. She had discovered this interest in the early 1990s when she learned about pottery at the renowned Penland School in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
“Penland was life-changing for me,” she says. “I felt like I was no longer connecting with the sales career I had.”
Still thinking about art and design, in 2007 Julie left the corporate world and enrolled in Advertising and Graphic Design at Alamance Community College.
Holmes' skills are already paying off. Last winter a class assignment design she submitted won first place in the prestigious Addie Awards, one of the nation's top design competitions.
Her design of a poster for the Shakori Music Festival in Chatham County, another class assignment, earned her the distinction of having her artwork selected as the centerpiece theme for the entire festival.
“I'm having a great time now doing what I've always wanted to do,” she says. “Alamance Community College made that possible.”
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