I came to AAR with a clear research project and in the first week here, my time fractalled into studies, experimentation, collaboration and fuelled inspiration I felt since grad school. My studio is not a finished exhibition space, but a laboratory I invite you into. I have been interested in thresholds and somatic movement within them. I have been interested in thresholds as sites for reclamation of power, of influence and space. As an artist, I’m tethered to imagination and fantasy. I explore the action of claiming space. I don’t have to follow the rules of a historian. So, I wonder what would happen if Roman space were reconstructed/reclaimed/translated under a different lens? Under a woman sculptor’s lens? Under a Black lens? Under a lens of fantasy and play?

Heather Hart works interdisciplinarity exploring the power in thresholds, questioning dominant narratives, and creating alternatives to them. Among her awards are Anonymous Was A Woman, the Graham Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation. She attended the Whitney ISP, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University. Hart co-founded the Black Lunch Table project, which won a Creative Capital award, Wikimedia Foundation grants, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants, a Ford Foundation grant, and an Andy Warhol Foundation grant. Her work has been exhibited at Storm King Art Center, NCMA, Kohler Art Center, Queens Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, University of Buffalo, and University of Toronto, among others. She is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, a member of the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, an external advisor for AUC Art Collective, and a trustee at Storm King Art Center.