BIO:
Heidi Carlsen-Rogers makes large-scale textile gardens.
Using human-sized flowers as a point of connection, her work explores themes around the mending, healing, and repair of both people and planet, our well-being as a culture, interconnectedness, inclusiveness - and empathy building towards one another, the natural environment, and our shared home, the earth.
Heidi combines floral photography, tapestry, thread, and traditional handwork techniques marrying organic subjects with artificial processes, and digital manipulation with handmade – exploring the ongoing tension between beauty, destruction, human nature, our planet & the Divine.
In 2021 Heidi was awarded an Artists 360 grant from the Walton Family Foundation & Midwest America Arts Alliance; in 2016 was granted an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council.
She been included in exhibitions with Arkansas Committee National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women to Watch: Arkansas State Tour 2023, Wiregrass and Masur Museums of Art, Chautauqua Institution, along with other regional exhibitions.
Her work will be included in the upcoming 2024 Delta Triennial, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock; and 2024 Solo Exhibition: Glimmer; The Arts & Science Center of Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff.
Heidi’s work was selected for inclusion in the 2019-2024 National Museum of Women in the Arts (Arkansas Committee) juried artists registry. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections and select public installations throughout the US and abroad.
She holds a B.S. degree from Kent State University and worked professionally in the visual display industry prior to becoming a full-time artist.
Born in Alabama, Heidi has lived in Connecticut, Ohio and Chicago and was influenced by the diverse experiences, perspectives and personal history gathered while living in different regions of the country.
Heidi lives & maintains a studio in NW Arkansas - surrounded by the verdant Ozark landscape where her tapestry flowers are found.
ADDITIONAL INFO / LINKS:
Artists 360 Full Circle: 5 Minute Art Talk: Crystal Bridges Museum of Art
Arkansas Art Scene Interview 2023: Arkansas Art Scene August 2023
Wiregrass Museum B20 Interview 2020: B20 Interview - Wiregrass Museum 2020