Heather Bird Harris

Biography

Heather Bird Harris is an artist, education leader, and independent curator. Her work explores the throughlines between history and ecological crises, engaging with communities, scientists, and place-based research to investigate possibilities for emergence and systems change.

Harris received her B.S. in art history from Skidmore College and master’s degree in education leadership from Columbia University. She has served as the principal of a turnaround school in New Orleans and as a learning consultant for school leaders nationwide, focusing on anti-racist history curriculum.

Recent exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid, NADA Curates, the New Mexico State University Museum, SITE, Stoveworks, the Barnes Ogden Gallery at LSU, Hatsfield-Jackson International Airport, and apexart’s Plastic, the New Coal at the Descendants Project. She has been a fellow at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Hambidge, and the Art & Social Justice Fellowship at Emory University. Harris’s practice has been featured in Burnaway, NPR, Art Papers, ArtsATL, and Mother, Creature, Kin. Recent projects include Sonoran Heritage Waters with musicians and ecologists at Arizona State University and Hope Springs Eternal in collaboration with activist group RISE St. James. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her partner Josh and their two children.

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