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A vintage comic book page titled "What Type of You?" with colorful illustrations of women and speech bubbles, featuring a paper cutout of a woman in a blue dress placed on top of the comic.

Julie Lipa

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A vintage-style artwork depicting a woman in 1950s attire dancing in front of a large blue background with the words 'NO SMOKING' spelled out. The scene includes an old radio with a black-and-white image of people inside, and a collage of black-and-white newspaper clippings on the bottom.

Julie Lipa, a self-taught artist from Detroit, channels her fascination with discarded objects into her art, a passion ignited by garbage picking with her parents. Her creative path was further shaped by an influential electro-kinetic teacher at Macomb County Community College, who taught her to see the world differently. Early on, Lipa repurposed 1950s portable TVs into functional art. But, ultimately, she needed to make the rent, so she stopped making art and founded an entertainment marketing agency.

Two decades later, she retired and returned to her art. Her work can be found at the Smithsonian Affiliate The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada and in private collections.