BAMPFA director Julie Rodrigues Widholm: ’Art is life’
Julie Rodrigues Widholm became the director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in fall 2020. (BAMPFA photo by Jesse Meria) "For me, art is life. There's no separation - art is about life. Art reflects every aspect of human existence. I think it's a moral imperative to open up museums to the entirety of our communities in a way that hasn't been done in the past. My father was a Portuguese language specialist for the U.S. Army, so I moved 11 times as a child all over the world. I loved it.


