Art and Money (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780981336367)

Since moving to Kelowna in 2002, Julia Trops has taught drawing, trained life drawing models, and was the sole founding organizer of the weekly Life Drawing sessions at the Rotary Centre for the Arts. These sessions began the development of the non profit life drawing group, incorporated two years later in 2005 as Livessence Society of Figurative Artists and Models. Heavily involved in the arts community, a Kelowna Museums board director for the past seven years, a founder of Okanagan Erotic Art Show (open worldwide), co-founder of Okanagan Arts Awards (as part of the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan). Encouraging other artists to get their name in print, 2009 onwards, Julia has compiled the Okanagan Erotic Art Show Catalog since 2009, and the Simplicity in Mind for Livessence, both of which are held in the National Library of Canada. In 2011, Julia was shortlisted for the City of Kelowna's Honour in the Arts. In 2012 and 2013, Julia was selected for artist in residence with BAU New York and Can Serrat Spain.