Julie McNair grew up in Louisiana and Texas and studied sculpture at North Texas State University and the University of Wyoming. Julie taught ceramics and sculpture at Mississippi State University until 1983. In Houston, TX, she worked as the Director of the Art League of Houston.

She moved to Telluride, CO in 1985 and operated her own gallery until 2003. Julie has been involved with the Ah Haa School as staff, instructor and volunteer since 1991 and framed for Telluride Gallery until recently. Julie has been featured and represented by numerous galleries over the Southwest United States and in Texas.

While her expertise is multi-faceted, her work of recent has been in clay sculpture with mixed multi-media. Her human-like figures often come to express ironic, personal, humorous and universal themes, but are always done with a magic that defines the work.