BJ Massa
Curator
BJ Massa is the owner of and creative force behind Junk’d Up. She’s been thrifting forever and painting furniture for more than twenty-five years. BJ loves working with color and experimenting with different tools and techniques. BJ is a native Long Islander transplanted to Indiana who may have lost her accent but not her style nor edge.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Journal Appearances
Additional Content
Blog
Volume 25: Embody – Meet the Artists in Our Fall 2026 Art Magazine
What does it mean to embody creativity? Maybe it means allowing the things you love to become part of the home you create. Maybe…
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Podcast
How BJ Massa Turns Pressure into Artful Possibility: The One-of-a-Kind Creative
In this episode of The Motivatarian Exchange, Dionne Woods sits down with multi-disciplinary artist and Turquoise Iris Journal curator BJ Massa of Junk’d Up…
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Paint Talks Episode 166 with BJ Massa
Dionne Woods talks with BJ Massa on the Paint Talks Podcast. BJ is the owner and creative force behind Junk’d Up, where she exercises…
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Paint Talks Episode 39 with BJ Massa
Learning to pivot in a creative business – This week on the podcast, you can hear the amazing conversation I had with BJ Massa!…
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