ABOUT Heather BeGaetz

Heather BeGaetz is an interdisciplinary artist, best known for giant hand crafted monumental sculptures of richly storied beings. As a queer mama, friend, partner, and devotee of the vast imagination of the earth, her artistic practice delights in conversing with the great dream. Through her work, she seeks deep relationality with everything from the animate forces of birth and death, to the oil in her gas tank & acrylic paints, to the shifting shorelines of the Willamette river whose waters quench the forest where she lives. Her pieces often become places of spontaneous performance and play, gathering people to arrive in place and possibility.

Her works have exhibited internationally at immersive art destinations, music festivals, venues, and public spaces. Notable recent showings include Morton Arboretum, Area 15 (Riyadh & Las Vegas), Orion Amphitheater, and Electric Forest.

Heather BeGaetz embraces ‘artist’ as the one identity where she has felt true belonging, and she sends tremendous gratitude to countless beings, generations and cultures who left artistic pathways towards creative sanctuary.

In addition to her work in the field of large scale installation, theater, and immersive experience, she has created numerous participatory community arts projects. These include a weekly dance party (which ran for nearly a decade), a community choir, village theater improv sessions, and community sculpting parties. She imagines a sane culture where all people are remembered as participants with a creative obligation to help remake the world in collaboration with previous generations and those on their way in. Her creative career ahead will include many more invitations to participatory art in conjunction with large scale sculpture making.