Heather Stivison: Borders and Boundaries

About

Heather Stivison: Borders and Boundaries is a solo exhibition of interdisciplinary works exploring borders and boundaries in terms of the basic human need for a place to call home. The artist places present-day issues of migration and border wars into both current and historical contexts. The narrative works in the exhibition  are a tapestry of drawings, paintings, textiles, and found objects. Each, in their own way, reflect the very authentic voice of the artist.

Heather Stivison is an award-winning visual artist whose work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries across the United States and in juried shows in Europe and Asia. Her work, which often is narrative-based, spans a wide variety of 2-D disciplines, including oil, acrylic, and watercolor painting, drawing in various mediums, fiber art, and mixed-media wall art with found objects,

Stivison currently serves as Chairman of the Board of South Coast Artists, Inc. She is an elected Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and serves on the Board of NAWA’s Massachusetts Chapter. She was the founding president of the Dartmouth Cultural Center, and has co-chaired Dartmouth’s Local Cultural Council, a local branch of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Stivison is a former museum director, former president of both the New Jersey Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.

She holds an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

This is her second New York solo exhibition