about this project
the infinite scroll: an open journal project is an experiment, made beginning with stay at home orders in the spring of 2020. over the years leading into the pandemics — and through endeavors including counseling, mental illness, divorce, hospice, trauma, triumph, love, dark nights of the soul, and holistic (re)awakenings — it felt like new meanings for life and for death emerged. as working and living in distance further gave time new gravity, and relationships new dynamics, it felt like new orbits were needed to keep balanced in spirit, healthy in body, and sane in mind (with varying degrees of success and failure).
women’s 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 (to our own), 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 kind of (re)generative offering. to engage with longform traditions, particularly in a shortform culture, is an intentional act of 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(s), 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 or medicine or benefit to you or someone you cherish.
about this time capsule
the infinite scroll is a constellation of personal journals — original illustration, poetry, song, creative nonfiction, and research — 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 / page) reflects the moment it was made. so, the information, specifically the data and statistics, the thoughts and opinions, cited throughout will naturally become outdated.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 reflections and time capsules:
winter 2019: precursor >>
spring 2020: a love letter on delirium & renewal >>
summer 2020: an appeal to the astounding >>
winter 2020 - summer 2022: the miraculous art of being >>
ongoing 2021 - present: free change library: artist’s folios >>
in process: past lives & mother lines: stories of an artist named jupiter (b. 1984)
about this artist
julia munroe mandeville (she / her) is an award-winning cultural worker, curator, writer, bookmaker, civic artist, and grassroots organizer. with the dream of a joyous, just, and peaceful future by and for all, julia 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 more than $10.5m to makers. with more than two decades of experience in public service, she is currently founder and co-creator of mirror bridge, co-founder and artistic director of somos abq, and chief programs officer of harwood art center.
julia’s multimodal artist books live on the infinite scroll project, juried into the international creative writers cohort & publishing seminar at center for book arts (nyc). her arts and advocacy writing appears in edible magazines, hand/eye magazine, the weekly alibi, and more; her illustrations, in remembrance: a vision of the sacred feminine & the renewal of the earth (albion books).
she studied political science at bard college at simon’s rock, university of ghana – legon, and unlv, earned certificates in upenn’s social impact strategy and embracing equity’s nm educators cohort, and is an invited full member of democracy & belonging forum, othering & belonging institute – uc berkeley.
recent press on julia’s civic practice includes hyperallergic, americans for the arts artsblog, npr-kunm, ksfr santa fe, nm living, albuquerque business first, and albuquerque journal.
recent honors include 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.
at home where the sandia and manzano mountains meet, julia lives and makes in albuquerque new mexico, on tiwa lands, with her beloveds james and iris.
with 100 women from 32 countries, she is a 2024-25 women's impact alliance catalyst fellow.
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-sharealike 4.0 international, attribution julia munroe mandeville.