about this project
The Infinite Scroll is an experiment, curious about reflection and expression as modalities of re/generation. Across this beautiful and bewildering human existence — and through endeavors including love, loss, grief, awe, trauma, triumph, survival, hospice, mental health, dark night of the soul, spiritual study, solitude, collaboration, witnessing, re/awakening, and more — new meanings for life and for death continue to emerge. With the stay at home orders of spring 2020, working and being in distance gave time new gravity and relationships new dynamics, and new orbits were needed to keep balanced in spirit, healthy in body, sane in mind, and present in community (with varying degrees of success and failure).
Women’s words, stories, diaries, memoirs, and auto/biographies have always felt like friends and accomplices, compasses and buoys, fables and allegories by which to navigate the multiverse and our experiences within these particular bodies. Certainly in similarity but maybe especially in difference, personal narratives spark and balm and galvanize our souls. To learn about the lives of others is to dissolve the boundaries between us, towards a greater knowing of the connections across us and of the happenings within us. To share our own is to make a reciprocal offering. To engage with longform traditions, particularly in a shortform culture, is an intentional act of patience, resistance, and reclamation.
So, the Infinite Scroll Project is an offering to anyone else who is grappling with the polarities and possibilities of now, whether in your own being or in our larger world, and with a prayer that you find nourishment here. In this astonishing era, through our rotations of delirium and renewal, may it bring resonance or catharsis, medicine or benefit, to you or someone you cherish.
about this time capsule & living library
The Infinite Scroll is a constellation of open inquiries and multimodal approaches — original illustration, poetry, creative nonfiction, research, song, spoken word, adaptive book arts, and more — interwoven with collected social/scientific studies; collaged images and quoted passages; and selected re/generative solutions from lifelong students, teachers, and peace workers. Each scroll volume (i.e. each navigation link and page) reflects the moment it was made. So, the information, specifically the data and statistics cited, and the thoughts and opinions named, throughout will naturally become outdated. Altogether, this should not be thought of as a current event or comprehensive catalogue, but rather as a series of time capsules and a free living library:
spring 2014 - spring 2019
with trip the light fantastic band
confession EP >>
trinidad EP >>
the truth EP >>
practice sessions >>
winter 2019 - summer 2022
open journal: precursor >>
open journal: a love letter on delirium & renewal >>
open journal: an appeal to the astounding >>
open journal: the miraculous art of being >>
summer 2021 - winter 2024
free change library: artist’s pamphlets >>
free change library: artist’s folios >>
free change library: unfolding folio >>
winter 2022 - present:
in process / past lives & mother lines:
stories of an artist named jupiter (b. 1984)
winter 2024 - present
the wilds: poems for a new time >>
in process / reflections from rabun gap >>
about this artist
Julia Munroe Mandeville (she/her b.1984) is a multi award winning arts and cultural worker. Her transdisciplinary approaches include curator and producer, song/writer and book artist, civic and social practice artist, grassroots organizer and advocate, and more. At 40, her professional portfolio spans nearly three decades, ranging from intimate narrative excavations to vast immersive engagements. With the dream that we can make a joyous, just, and peaceful future by and for all, Julia nurtures cooperative leadership teams and builds open public programs for lifelong learning, creative expression, self discovery, and collective impact.
Together with her collaborators, Julia has resourced thousands of artists and activists by co-creating hundreds of platforms, from solo site-specific commissions to 25,000-citizen cultural celebrations, and re-distributing over $15million to makers. Currently she serves as Chief Programs Officer of Harwood Art Center, Founding Artistic Director of SOMOS ABQ, and Founding Co-Director of Mirror Bridge. She's an invited full member of Democracy & Belonging Forum, Othering & Belonging Institute–UC Berkeley, and, with 100 women from 32 countries, a 2024-25 Women's Impact Alliance Catalyst Fellow.
Her prior staff positions include Director of Programs & Community Relations at Harwood, Associate Director of Programs & Communications at Creative ABQ, Founding Program Coordinator at Great Books Summer Reading Program, and Research Assistant to a Senior Curator at the Guggenheim Museum. She's served an array of cultural, social, and economic vitality initiatives via board or leadership roles, including Tricklock Company, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program, MiABQ, Emerge ABQ, Women & Creativity, and more.
A lifelong singer and songwriter, Julia’s primary artistic practice from 2014-2019 revolved around composing with Meghan Ferguson Mráz and Casey Mráz. As the trio Trip the Light Fantastic, with Meghan on cello and Casey on piano, guitar, banjo, and production, Julia found soulmates for her vocals and lyrics. Trip the Light Fantastic recorded 3 EPs and a rehearsal playlist. In 2019, Julia and Casey became Meghan’s primary home hospice caretakers as she died of breast cancer at 34. When Meghan crossed over, the music Julia had heard in her head since childhood disappeared and all that was left were the lyrical words.
In 2019, through a dark night of the soul, Julia began channeling these lyrical words, profound griefs, and enduring creative energies into independent writing, research, and illustration. Her experiments grew into a multimodal open journal and book arts collection. Following the loss of her cherished grandmother and artistic mentor, Enid Campbell Hughes Munroe, Julia began publishing The Infinite Scroll Project in the pandemics of spring 2020. Following several scrolls that were made in isolation and entirely digital, Julia returned to handmade book arts objects in spring 2023. She continues to release all volumes through this site — imagining it as a free living library, one curious about reflection and expression as modalities of re/generation.
For her creative writing and scroll making, Julia was selected for the 2021 International Writers Cohort & Creative Publishing Seminar at Center for Book Arts (NYC) and awarded a 2025 Creative Residency Fellowship with the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences (GA). Her arts and advocacy writing also appears in publications including Edible Magazines, Hand/Eye Magazine, Adobe Airstream, ABQ Free Press, and The Weekly Alibi, where she was an Arts Columnist, and her illustrations in Remembrance: A Vision of the Sacred Feminine & the Renewal of the Earth by Alejandra Warden (Albion Books).
Recent press on her creative practices and public programs includes Hyperallergic, Americans for the Arts Artsblog, NPR-KUNM, KSFR Santa Fe, New Mexico Living, Albuquerque Journal, The Paper, and Albuquerque Business First.
For these efforts, and among other past recognitions, Julia’s peers named her the recipient of National Philanthropy Day AFP-YNPN New Mexico Outstanding Young Nonprofit Professional of the Year Award; Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Scholarship Award; Local IQ Woman of Culture: 5 Women Driving Local Creative Industry Leadership Honoree; and Albuquerque Business First 40 Under 40 Award. Recently she was nominated and selected to receive a 2025 City of Albuquerque Creative Bravos Award.
The great/grand/daughter of working women artists and artisans, Julia channels multicultural lineage, universal liberation, and generational change with every breath. Based where the Sandia and Manzano mountains meet, she lives and makes in Albuquerque, on Tiwa Lands, with her beloveds James and Iris. New Mexico is her meaning of home.
intellectual property & creative commons
A selection of social / scientific studies, quoted passages, and collaged images are attributed throughout and belong to their original authors.
Otherwise, this entire site and all its original contents are licensed under creative commons attribution-noncommercial-noderivitaves 4.0 international, attribution Julia Munroe Mandeville.
