Heidi Jensen

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Providence, RI

Year at Millay: 2011

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Abbott Watts Residency for Photography Residency, Monson Arts, Monson, ME (2023); Artist-In-Residence, Vashon Artists Residency, Vashon Island, WA (2022); Artist-in-Residence, Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville, WA (2014); Artist-In-Residence, Brush Creek Foundation For The Arts, Saratoga, WY (2012); Artist-in-Residence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY (2011); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Residency Program, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL (2010); Artist-in-Residence, KHN Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (2007).

Website: https://heidijensen.com/index.html

Heidi Jensen’s practice is based in drawing and expands into soft sculpture, printmaking, and puppetry. Her work explores narrative form, our relationship to the biological world, and the gaps between categories of the animate and inanimate. Originally from the Midwest, Heidi has taught in art departments in South Carolina and Indiana, and is now teaching at CCRI. As an instructor, she appreciates working with students as they find their way through the backwards, forwards and sideways process of making creative work, and as they identify their interests and integrate these into art and design. Heidi likes to travel and to make work about what she finds in new locations, and is a fellow of many residency programs including the Monson Arts Residency in Maine and the Vashon Arts Residency in Washington.