DVAA Member since 2022
Heather Marie Scholl
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About:
Heather Marie Scholl is a Philadelphia-based embroidery and mixed media artist addressing issues of race, gender, and trauma. She holds a BA in Race, Gender, and Sexuality and an MFA in Fashion and Knitwear Design. Her installation “Sometimes It’s Hard to be a Woman” was awarded a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant (2014). She was a 2019-20 fellow with the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship and a resident at The James and Janie Washington House in Seattle (2019). In 2015, Scholl began work on her series “Whitework,” an exploration into white women’s roles in white supremacy. This led her to co-found and direct Confront White Womanhood, an anti-racism education initiative for white women (2016-2020). She held workshops for the Women’s March, Columbia University, and others. Scholl’s work has been exhibited at Fuller Craft Museum, The Morris Jumel Mansion, Rokeby Museum, and Virago Gallery, among others. Her work has been written about in i-D magazine, Slate, Cosmopolitan, and BUST.
Artist Statement:
“In my practice, I confront legacies of violence through the use of embroidery, sculpture, and writing. I seek to articulate the intimate and public nature of race, gender, and trauma. By invoking the visual languages of religious iconography, folk art, and fairy tales, I connect to personal and artistic traditions that shape identity and culture. Through this stitch work I investigate how generational violence, personal and national, is woven into our bodies, homes, rituals, and daily lives; how it bleeds into the stories we tell about ourselves and each other. Materially, I explore how the familiarity of craft can soften people's receptivity to hard truths, conjuring memories and connection, and how this crafted intimacy can aid in truth-telling.”
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