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. She believes in the importance of serving the arts community and her fellow artists. Stivison currently serves as the 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 is a former museum director, who also served as president of both the New Jersey Association of Museums and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.

Stivison is also a published author and is currently writing her second nonfiction book. She is a member of the Authors Guild and was awarded a place in the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ “Writer to Writer Mentorship Program.” A recipient of a research grant from the Arts & Crafts Research Fund, she has written and lectured on various topics in the Arts & Crafts field. She also writes art reviews for Artscope magazine.

She is represented at Pleiades Gallery in New York City. She holds an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Stivison creates her work in Hatch Street Studios, New Bedford, MA.

She is the mother of two daughters and lives with her husband of many years in Massachusetts and Vermont.

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Art & Object https://www.artandobject.com/marketplace/artists/heather-stivison

The Painting Center Art File https://www.thepaintingcenter.org/heather-stivison

Pleiades Gallery https://www.pleiadesgallery.com/our-artists

South Coast Artists https://www.southcoastartists.org/artists/#sz

Studio Montclair https://studiomontclair.org/artist-registry-2/#!biz/id/59624bd8178f4e3e7d78b97b

Hatch Street Studios https://www.hatchstreetstudios.com/artists-listing

• 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

• 2025 International Oceans Virtual Art Residency, an activity of UNESO’s Ocean Decade

• 2024    Vermont Studio Center

2026                Second Place, Pacific Influence, the Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA, the National Association of Women Artists

2026                Honorable Mention, She the People, the National Association of Women Artists

2025                Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Medal of Honor Award for Works on Paper, the National Association of Women Artists

2024                Second Place, South Coast Artists Invitational, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI

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                First Prize 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, SC

I2026                Borders and Boundaries II, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Madison, NJ

2025                Seeds of Change II, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT

2025                Ebb Tide: The Many Faces of Water, Pleiades Gallery, NYC, NY

2024                Borders and Boundaries, Pleiades Gallery, NYC, NY

2023                Seeds of Change: Paintings of Climate Change and Hope, Pleiades Gallery, NYC, NY.

2021                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, Massachusetts

2025                Duets: Two Artists & Our Blue Planet Heather Stivison & Lisa Goren Marion Arts Center, Marion, MA

2022                Tides and Currents, University of Connecticut at Avery Point, with four artists, also featured reception speaker.

2019                Heather Stivison & Patricia White, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA

• Interview in Consequence Forum

• 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

• 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)

• 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 HistoryFormer Member, AHA! Steering Committee, New Bedford, MA

• Former Member, Association of Fundraising Professionals (earning their National Certification, CFRE, 2005)

• The Geometry of Stillness—Artscope Magazine

• Seaworthy in Newport: Sean Landers Channels the Ocean’s Dark Side—Artscope Magazine

• Into the Luminous Depths—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