Recent Exhibitions
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South Coast Artists Annual Holiday Exhibition
This annual exhibition and sale features a wide range of small works (16” and under) on view at the historic 1889 Richardson Romanesque building that now houses Dartmouth Cultural Center, 404 Elm Street, South Dartmouth, MA 02748
A Family Affair: Pleiades Gallery Annual Winter Exhibition
This annual exhibition features the work of fifteen Gallery Artists in the Landmark Arts Building, Chelsea, New York City.
Hatch Street Open Studios
This three-day celebration, popular with the entire New England region for more than 16 years running, offers a look into the professional spaces of 65+ artists working in a restored 19th-century textile mill. Visitors are invited to view the studios, discover their creative processes, and purchase original works of art in a wide variety of media including ceramics, jewelry, photography, wood, glass, painting, and textiles.
Ambition
A juried exhibition featuring artists from the National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts Chapter.
Champion gymnast Simone Biles exemplifies a growing trend in placing self-care above ambition. Similarly, workers in all fields were prompted by the Covid-19 slow-down to re-examine their lives and leave their jobs in droves to pursue freedom and fulfillment. The impact of social isolation, working from home, remote learning, and stimulus checks on attitudes toward ambition and success are staggering. Careers, money, family, health, housing, location, and politics are in the air. In unprecedented numbers, high-tech workers, teachers, and healthcare professionals alike are leaving their jobs, retiring early, renovating homes, and relocating to other parts of the country to “listen to their bodies,” “follow their dreams,” or “feed their souls.” Many artists experience this shift en masse as they delve deeper into their work, change directions, and expand their view of achievement. This exhibition explores new definitions of success and evolving personal and global perspectives on AMBITION.
Art Angels 2023
The National Association of Women Artists online exhibition on view here: https://thenawa.org/product-category/art-angels-2023/
Still
Still is an Art Fluent juried exhibition that includes the work of Heather Stivison. Beauty in the ordinary, in the stillness. Art is about capturing those moments that are gone again in a flash, moments that we find when we slow down. A fresh bouquet of flowers, a breathtaking sunset, a sense of joy witnessed. It's about embracing the little things, the simple pleasures that often go unnoticed in the hustle and bustle of our busy lives. So, pause, take a breath, and soak in the stillness. Let yourself be captivated by the ordinary, for it is in those moments that you will find true beauty.
Summer Small Works
Summer Small Works is an annual juried exhibition presented by the National Association of Women Artists. The jurors select works submitted for entry by both member and nonmember applicants from all over the nation, including Heather Stivison’s “Ecoscape: Rain.”
Nature's Patterns
Nature is full of patterns, from more abstract patterns like the life cycle to visual patterns like fractals. This national juried exhibition features interpretations of this theme, inspired by nature!
134th Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists
This annual exhibition was begun in 1889, by the National Association of Women Artists-a United States organization, created to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. In an era when women artists were associated primarily with crafts and decorative arts, the founders of NAWA envisioned an organization which would promote higher standards for women artists and provide them with the opportunity to exhibit their work. From the onset, these annual exhibitions were a great success, attracting the participation of women artists such as Mary Cassatt, Suzanne Valadon, Rosa Bonheur and Cecelia Beaux. As the organization grew, its membership included prominent artists like Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Anna Hyatt Huntington.
The exhibition is only open to NAWA signature members—artists who have submitted their work to a panel and have been elected into the organization. Over the years artists such as Louise Nevelson, Malvina Hoffman, Cleo Hartwig, Minna Citron, Nell Blaine, Dorothy Dehner, Alice Neel, Marisol, Pat Adams, Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Janet Fish and Audrey Flack, and other contemporary talented artists have joined the organization
Exquisite Codes
This drawing was on view in Berlin, where was part of a collaborative installation organized by Jill Krutick Fine Art. It will be presented at the Bla-Bla Projektraum in an exhibition entitled Exquisite Codes. Hosted by fine art gallerist/curator Diana Hohenthal in partnership with SHIM Art Network, the exhibition featured both local and international artists.
Reception for SCA Spring Invitational
Reception for SCA’s Spring Members’ Invitational takes place as part of Gallery Night Providence. The reception will include live acoustic jazz provided by recording artists John Stein and Ed Lucie. Artists will be on hand to discuss the works on view. Light refreshments will be served.
FEMALE
We Are All Exploding Stars, on view at the Berkshire Art Museum’s exhibition FEMALE
A National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts Chapter juried exhibition.
View a page of the exhibition catalogue here
Opening Reception is in conjunction with North Adams’ "First Fridays" on July 7, 2023, 6–9 p.m.
Art Critic Marjorie Kaye, Artscope Magazine, Jul 2023: Heather Stivison’s “We Are All Exploding Stars” creates its own internal cosmology, manifesting personal constellations of the artist’s own making. Within this cosmology arise organic building blocks, and the Creator is the Mother — humanity takes responsibility for the well-being of the universe in this painting — the Creator is none other than ourselves, a bit of the divine carried as a seed within the depth of the womb. The artist assures us that within our universal memory, is the key to the beginning, and that these seeds of awareness are ours to sow.
South Coast Artists Members Invitational
A highly anticipated annual exhibition featuring more than 127 original artworks created by artists living or working in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Spring Open Studio-Day 2
The artists of 88-90 Hatch Street cordially invite you to experience some flower power at our Spring Open Studios event. Stop by and experience a bouquet of creative workspaces, delight in wandering from studio to studio, awaken the senses with live music, art demos, and workshops.
Heather Stivison’s Studio #315 will be featuring a wide range of original paintings and prints. Light refreshments will be served.
Hatch Street Studios is the vibrant creative hub of more than 65 visual and performing artists. Located at 88 - 90 Hatch Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts (in the city’s north end) the two grand brick and stone buildings are right in the heart of the historic Nashawena Mill district. FREE
Explore and experience Hatch in full bloom!
Spring Open Studio-Day 1
The artists of 88-90 Hatch Street cordially invite you to experience some flower power at our Spring Open Studios event. Stop by and experience a bouquet of creative workspaces, delight in wandering from studio to studio, awaken the senses with live music, art demos, and workshops.
Heather Stivison’s Studio #315 will be featuring a wide range of original paintings and prints. Light refreshments will be served.
Hatch Street Studios is the vibrant creative hub of more than 65 visual and performing artists. Located at 88 - 90 Hatch Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts (in the city’s north end) the two grand brick and stone buildings are right in the heart of the historic Nashawena Mill district. FREE
Explore and experience Hatch in full bloom!
From Landscapes to Mindscapes
An online exhibition by the National Association of Women Artists, featuring works selected by a jury, from submissions by Signature Members of NAWA. Signature Members are only those NAWA members who have been elected by their peers through a portfolio review. Established in 1889, NAWA continues its the long and important dedication to uplifting the contributions of women to the history of American culture and art.
Seeds of Change Opening Reception
The opening reception for Heather Stivison: Seeds of Change features the live acoustic jazz guitar of John Stein.
John is a highly accomplished guitarist and retired member of the faculty at Berklee College of Music. He has many albums to his credit as both a leader and sideman with some of the world’s most renowned jazz acts. John has published several books on composition, a book of solo guitar arrangements published by Berklee College, and numerous articles for jazz magazines.
John will be joined by wonderful bass guitarist Ed Lucie, his partner on the 2021 recording ‘Serendipity.’ Their skill, emotional expressiveness, and fluency as a duet are affecting and memorable, and echo the sentiments of the paintings on view.
Heather Stivison, an artist committed to exploring the intersection of environmental science and visual art in her immersive paintings of the ocean, air, and sky will debut a series of works that Stivison calls Ecoscapes, in the exhibition.
Seeds of Change, with its references to natural cycles of growth, renewal, and hope arrives fittingly at the beginning of spring after a winter of extreme weather conditions. The exhibition is comprised of 25 acrylic on canvas paintings including a fifteen-foot wide installation of four large panels. Stivison’s Ecoscape paintings depict natural objects and symbols seemingly floating, untethered in the wind or in deep and shallow bodies of water. Seed pods, stones, plankton, strands of DNA and nautical charts commingle. Stivison says she is inspired by her reading, observation, and interest in petroglyphs and ancient rock carvings and paintings.
Heather Stivison: Seeds of Change-Paintings of Climate Change and Hope
Heather Stivison, an artist committed to exploring the intersection of environmental science and visual art in her immersive paintings of the ocean, air, and sky will debut a series of works that Stivison calls “Ecoscapes.”
“Seeds of Change: Paintings of Climate Change and Hope,” with its references to natural cycles of growth, renewal, and hope arrives fittingly at the beginning of spring after a winter of extreme weather conditions. The exhibition is comprised of 25 acrylic on canvas paintings including a fifteen foot wide installation of four large panels.
Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
The National Association of Women Artists presents an exhibition acknowledging women’s roles in life as creators, nurturers, leaders, companions, instigators, dreamers, innovators, victims…the story of humankind seen through a woman’s eye. The exhibition includes artist Heather Stivison’s award winning work “Restoring Herstory.”
Depth Perception
The National Association of Women Artists presents an exhibition of various artforms which employ a broad array of cues to convey depth. Look for linear perspective, textural gradients, visual angles, contrast differences, and layering of planes to effectively draw the viewer in. The exhibition, which is online and in-person includes the painting “Distant Voices Before Sleep” by artist Heather Stivison
Aqua 2022
An international juried exhibition on the them of water. Presented by Bifarian.
Black and White
A juried exhibition of Drawing, Painting, Printing Making, Collage, Photography all on theme of Black and White. The exhibition includes artist Heather Stivison’s drawing Tangled Roots, which was awarded “Work of Merit” by juror Melanie dai Medeiros.
32nd Annual Fakes and Forgeries
Spring Bull Gallery presented its 32nd Annual Fakes and Forgeries Exhibition. The fun exhibition was conceived 32 years ago and has become an annual winter tradition in Newport. Heather Stivison’s interpretation of a John Singer Sargent drawing received the Judges Award.
Synergy Part 2
An exhibition in collaboration with the Art League of Rhode Island and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Joint Program.
Winter Solstice
A group show of gallery artists featuring 12 ecoscape paintings by Heather Stivison
Pages
When asked, no two artists can agree on the definition of an ‘Artist Book’. The possibilities are endless.
It is often an object that can be more visual than textural. Sequential pages or maybe just one, a scroll. It can be stitched, folded, glued, hung on cord, pinned to the wall, adhered to a substrate and framed or contained within a structure possibly influenced by the book form. Large or small it is usually a world of surprises.
For this juried group exhibition, Studio Montclair selected work which fits this very loose description of an Artists Book.
Fort Point Open Studios Member Show
During Open Studios Weekend, Fort Point Arts Community artists welcome Boston area residents and visitors from afar, into our spaces for a casual weekend of experiencing art, growing friendships and enjoying all our neighborhood has to offer.
Trust the Process
A National Association of Women Artists, Massachusetts Chapter Exhibition
Exquisite Corpse, New York
After traveling to Venice this summer, the original Exquisite Corpse collaborative installations are now installed in Jill Kruttick Fine Art.
In addition to "Exquisite Corpse," six of my Ecoscape paintings are available in the gallery.
Organized by Jill Krutick Fine Art in collaboration with SHIM Art Network