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Julia Christianson Hoffman (1856-1934) was a visual artist and arts patron from Oregon who was a proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is primarily know for founding the Arts and Crafts Society of Portland that later became Oregon College of Art and Craft. She was a photographer, sculptor, ceramicist, painter, metal worker, and weaver.

Childhood and marriage
Julia Christianson was born in 1856 in Gunnison, Utah. As a child, she had interests in drawing, painting, and needlework. She started studying painting circa 1874 in Salt Lake City. In 1881, she moved to Portland, Oregon. That year, she met Lee Hoffman, and they married in 1883. They had two children, Lee Hawley, a son, was born in 1884 and Margery, a daughter, was born in 1888. Hoffman began photographing in 1888. Initially, many of her photographs were of her children and friends.

The Boston years
While on a family picnic in July 1895, Lee Hoffman died in a hunting accident. Now a widow and desiring a refined education for her children, Hoffman moved the family to Boston in 1896.

She became active in the Copley Society of Art and Boston Society of Arts and Crafts.

Honors

 * The Oregon College of Art & Craft Hoffman Gallery is named in her honor.