About

Edie Trautwein is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work centers around experimentation and collaboration. Primary mediums include fiber art, book making, and vertical video. Recently she has begun to experiment with sound, creating unique scores for her Instagram and YouTube videos. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Washington D.C. In 2022 she began to produce zines and videos under the name Fish Juice (@fshjuice), and her zines are currently sold at Dog Eared Books, Silver Sprocket, Adobe Bookshop, Green Apple Books, Needles and Pens and Thrillhouse Records in San Francisco. She has worked in creative spaces for over 8 years, including ICA San Francisco, MOCA, the reDiscover Center, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Sesnon Art Gallery and ThinkTank Gallery.

Edie attended UC Santa Cruz from 2018-2022 as a Film and Digital Media Major and History of Consciousness Minor, affiliated with Cowell College. She was involved in Cowell Senate and student government, representing Cowell College on the SUA Elections Committee and CORE Funding Council, and in 2019 she directed the redesign of the Cowell Senate Office. During her first year at UC Santa Cruz, she joined the Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI), a research project studying post-war Okinawan history with the Humanities Institute. As a member of OMI’s Exhibition Team, Edie worked on an exhibition of photographs that traveled to Okinawa, Japan and Gardena, California in 2019, before becoming the leader of OMI’s Events Team in 2020. As head of the Events Team she produced a series of virtual events ranging from book talks to roundtable discussions, drawing an international audience.

From August-December 2019 she attended classes at the UC Paris Center, studying French language, film, media and politics. In 2019 Edie was accepted into the College Scholar’s Program, which led her to apply for the competitive Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP). For the 2020-2021 school year she served as the CUIP for the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery where she curated student exhibitions and managed social media for the gallery’s undergraduate space, the Sesnon Underground. She also facilitated cross campus collaborations, and worked on the Revolutionary Greetings series in connection with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences’ project, Barring Freedom.

During the 2021-2022 school year Edie continued working with the Sesnon, transitioning to be the gallery’s Digital Media Intern, tasked with making digital content and curating more student exhibitions with fellow interns (see Resume page for a full list of projects). Her work has been published in four UC Santa Cruz media organizations, including the Eye Candy Film Journal, FishRapLive!, Light Leak Photography Journal, and Fruitcake Magazine. She was a founding member and Artistic Director of the UCSC Trading Post from 2021-2022, a club dedicated to sustainable education and free clothing swaps. In addition to her other extra curricular activities, Edie represented UC Santa Cruz’s undergraduate population on the Academic Senate Committee on Planning and Budget (2020/21), advising faculty and administrators on matters related to university finance and resource allocation.

Edie grew up in Los Angeles, California. Throughout her young adulthood she attended workshops and programs including Ryman Arts, the California State Summer School for the Arts, Theatricum Botanicum, and more which nurtured her creativity and passion for the arts. She attended New Roads School in Santa Monica, where she designed graphics for the theater department, worked on two independent study projects focussing on experimental horticulture and medieval bookbinding. In 2016 she proposed the curriculum and TA’d for a new film class, Comparative Film Analysis, which was taught at New Roads for two years. In 2017 she traveled to Belfast, Northern Ireland with the organization Cinemagic, to be a trainee on the set of the feature film Grace and Goliath. Edie was accepted into the MOCA Teen Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2017, and interned at the museum for the duration of the 2017-2018 school year. During this period Edie won two New Roads Awards for Artistic Achievement, three Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and became a Young Arts Winner in Visual Arts.