Heather Marie Scholl

About Heather:

Heather Marie Scholl is a Philadelphia-based artist using embroidery, sculpture, and writing to confront personal and national legacies of violence, exposing narratives of race, gender, and trauma. She creates intimate works informed by family histories, research on race in America, queerness, and her internal emotional landscape that invite inter-generational healing. Utilizing a disquieting vulnerability she investigates how these histories are woven into our bodies, homes, rituals, and daily lives, and how they bleed into the stories we tell about ourselves and each other. Scholl holds a BA in Race, Gender and Sexuality and an MFA in Fashion and Knitwear Design. She was a 2019-20 fellow with the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship and a resident at The James and Janie Washington House (2019). She has been awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council Grant (2014), CERF+ grant (2021), and the Illuminate the Arts Grant (2022). Her work has been exhibited at Fuller Craft Museum, Rokeby Museum, The Morris Jumel Mansion, and DaVinci Art Alliance, among others and has been written about in Slate, Cosmopolitan, i-D magazine, and BUST.