Heather Stivison
OVERVIEW:
EDUCATION
•MFA in Painting, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Thesis of Distinction.
•BA in Fine Arts, Excelsior College, NY, Cum Laude
•Extensive additional studies in painting, drawing, book illustration, and textile design at
Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Montclair State University
RESIDENCIES
2025 International Oceans Virtual Art Residency, and activity of UNESO’s Ocean Decade
2024 Vermont Studio Center
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ebb Tide: the Many Faces of Water, Pleiades Gallery, NY, NY
2025 Seeds of Change II, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont
2024 Borders and Boundaries, Pleiades Gallery, NY, NY
2023 Seeds of Change: Paintings of Climate Change and Hope, Pleiades Gallery, NY, NY
2022 Surrounded by Water, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2020 Waking Dreams, Gallery 244, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA
2018 Quench! The Vault Gallery, Dartmouth, MA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Duets: Two Artists & Our Blue Planet, Marion Art Center, Marion, MA
2019 Heather Stivison & Patricia White. Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA
FOUR-PERSON EXHIBITION
2022 Tides and Currents, University of Connecticut at Avery Point (also featured lecturer)
SELECTED RECENT AWARDS
2025: Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Medal of Honor Award for Works on Paper, the National Association of Women Artists
2024: Second Prize, South Coast Artists Members’ Invitational, Bristol Art Museum
2023: Work of Merit, Black and White, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2023: Judges Award in the 32nd Annual Fakes and Forgeries, Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI
2023: Award for Drawing, Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY.
2022: The Judith Cantor Memorial Award for mixed media drawing by the National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
2022: Best Social Commentary in Changing Lives, Changing the Future, National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts, Boston, MA
2021: Best Representational Painting, Some Like it Hot, National Association of Women Artists, MA
Selected Press
Dartmouth Artist’s Award Winning Work Showcased in New York
Work included in Artscope Magazine article about curators
Review of Social Justice at Gallery X, New Bedford Light
Review of FEMALE at the Berkshire Art Museum, Artscope Magazine
Commentary on solo exhibition, Seeds of Change at Pleiades Gallery, NYC, on Two Coats of Paint
Seeds of Change, In-Focus article, The Artist Index
Heather Stivison's Artistic Influences, The Standard Times
Meet Heather Stivison - Boston Voyager Magazine
Dartmouth Artist Paints Water, Reflections Dartmouth Weekly
New Bedford Art Museum Juried Member's Exhibition - Standard Times, MA
Fiber Art Month - Don Wilkinson, Standard Times, MA
Review of "South Coast Invitational at Gallery X" - Don Wilkinson, Standard Times, MA
Review of "Active Imaginations: Artists Respond to Global Challenges" - Don Wilkinson, Standard Times, MA
OLDER PRESS:
About Work at the Stickley Museum -Bruce Johnson, director of the National Arts & Crafts Conference
Review of Craftsman Farms Book - Gordon Bond, Garden State Legacy Publications, NJ
Review of Craftsman Farms Book - Bruce Johnson, Arts & Crafts Collector
Some Closing Thoughts on Our Friend Heather Stivison - Bruce Johnson, Arts & Crafts Collector
Redux: The Arts and Crafts Revival, 1972-2012 - Judith Budwig and Jeffrey Preston, authors
Arts & Crafts Homes & The Revival
Farewell Craftsman Farms (NJ news)
Art Daily (Stickley Museum exhibition)
Selected Professional Affiliations
Chairman of the Board, South Coast Artists, Inc.
Board of Directors, Massachusetts Chapter, National Association of Women Artists
Elected Artist, Art League of Rhode Island
Elected Signature Member, National Association of Women Artists
Member, National Women's Caucus for Art
Member, Women's Caucus for Art of Central Massachusetts
Member, New York Artists Equity Association
Member, Women in Arts Foundation
Member, American Alliance of Museums
Member, New England Museum Association
Member, College Art Association
Member, Association of Historians of American Art
Member, North American Victorian Studies Association
Member, Authors' Guild
Member, Biographers' International
Member, AWP: the Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Member, Pleiades Gallery
Member, Studio Montclair
Member, Gallery X Art Cooperative
Past Board of Directors, Art League of Rhode Island
Past President, Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums
Past President, New Jersey Association of Museums
Founding President, Dartmouth Cultural Center, Inc.
Past Co-Chair, Dartmouth Cultural Council, the local branch of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Past Board of Directors, Advocates for New Jersey History
Former Member, AHA! Steering Committee, New Bedford, MA
Former Member, Association of Fundraising Professionals (earning their National Certification, CFRE, 2005)
Selected Publications
Seaworthy in Newport: Sean Landers Channels the Ocean’s Dark Side—Artscope Magazine
"Minority Representation in Mainstream Museums, Part 1" Esthesis.org, Whitestone Publications
"Minority Representation in Mainstream Museums, Part 2" Esthesis.org, Whitestone Publications
"Minority Representation in Mainstream Museums, Part 3" Esthesis.org, Whitestone Publications
Piecing Together the Little Known Life of Eloise Roorbach, Part One - The quarterly journal of the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
Piecing Together the Little Known Life of Eloise Roorbach, Part Two - The quarterly journal of the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
"Craftsman Farms" -Soft Cover Book Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
"Nature Inspired Summer" - Poetry and Art Anthologies, Falling Leaves Press, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Nature Inspired Autumn" - Poetry and Art Anthologies, Falling Leaves Press, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Nature Inspired Winter" - Poetry and Art Anthologies, Falling Leaves Press, Poughkeepsie, NY