Juliet Hinely

Artist Statement

My creative practice is based in documentary arts. I work predominantly in audio, braiding sound and story to explore narratives of place, history, inheritance, and relationships. My work exists as site-specific audio walks, sound and sculpture installations, audio poems, and currently as long-form audio documentary. In my projects I’m looking for ripple effects across time, trying to get at why we are the way we are, why things happened the way they did, why a place is the way it is, how we fit together. Inspired by participatory documentary, memoir, archeology, and collage, I create through interview, archival research, field recording, found tape, and music composition. My work is also influenced by 10 years of freelance work in radio, podcast, and audio tour production and a background in visual arts. I love sound as a visual medium. It is the closest thing I have found to time travel.

Portrait made on a research trip, in the era of the story. Tintype made by Craig Murphy, Glens Falls NY, 2024.

Bio

Juliet Hinely works in documentary arts, specializing in podcasts and hybrid media projects as a freelance story producer, sound designer, and radio storytelling teacher. She has produced audio stories and podcasts for Audible, Detour, and National Public Radio, including as Senior Producer on the Peabody Award-winning podcast Believed. Juliet is a co-founder and co-host of the 10-years-running community listening event series Radio Campfire, and a co-producer of the annual Independent Film Fest Ypsilanti. For her own creative work she has been awarded artist residencies at Monson Arts, Tofte Lake Center, Elsewhere Museum, and Kala Arts. In 2024 she was a Visiting Fellow at the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative at Skidmore College and a Visiting Professor and Libra Scholar at the University of Maine Farmington. Juliet earned her BFA in Fiber Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and her MFA at the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Juliet is based in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

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