Heather Bird Harris

{Retail Value $1500}

The Process of Becoming, 2024

Watercolor made from Clay found in Atlanta, Georgia, Water on Stone Paper

26 x 20 inches, framed: 30.5 x 25 inches

Courtesy of the artist

www.heatherbirdharris.com

Heather Bird Harris (b. 1987) is an artist and educator who prioritizes caretaking and connection. Her work explores the throughlines between history and ecological crises, engaging with communities, scientists, and site-specific materials to investigate land memory, systems of complicity, and possibilities for emergence. Harris received her B.S. in art history from Skidmore College and master's degree in education leadership from Columbia University. Recent exhibitions include NADA Curates, the New Mexico State University Museum, Art Fields, Stoveworks, Louisiana State University, SITE at the Goat Farm, and Science Gallery Atlanta. She has been an artist in residence at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Hambidge, and the 2023 Art & Social Justice Fellowship at Emory University. Current projects include Sonoran Heritage Waters at Arizona State University and Hope Springs Eternal with activist organization RISE St. James in New Orleans. Bird is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University and represented by Spalding Nix (Atlanta, GA), Mont Art House (Houston, TX), and Claire Elizabeth Gallery (New Orleans, LA). She lives in Atlanta with her partner, Josh, and their two children.

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