Julia Jarrett is a fiber artist based in Savannah, Georgia. Her practice centers on ritual, domestic labor, and natural materials, using traditional broom-making techniques as both sculptural method and conceptual language. Working between function and form, she explores how everyday tools can become sites of reverence through attention, repetition, and care.

Rooted in the belief that meaning accumulates through use, Jarrett’s work elevates objects such as brooms, brushes, and hearth tools beyond utility alone. These forms carry histories of labor and devotion, shaped by the hands that make and use them. Through large-scale sculptural works, functional objects, and smaller studio pieces, she considers how slow, intentional making can transform necessity into offering.

Material listening is central to her process. Jarrett works primarily with natural fibers, wood, and found or discarded elements, allowing each material’s resistance and character to guide form. Her practice values slowness over efficiency and relationship over control, attending to the quiet knowledge embedded in repeated gestures.

She made her first broom at age ten with her grandmother for her mother’s handfasting ceremony—an early moment where craft, ritual, and lineage converged. That experience continues to inform her work today. Jarrett views the studio as a living space, holding resolved works, functional objects, and experiments in progress, all part of an ongoing practice grounded in labor, care, and attention.