Heather Baumbach

Studio 2053 

2211 Seminole Drive

Huntsville, AL 35805

Born: 1976 Allentown, Pennsylvania

Lives and Works: Madison, Alabama


Education

2023 MFA in Visual Arts, Lesley University College of Art+Design, Cambridge, MA

2000 BFA in Costume Design, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

1994-1996 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania


Solo Exhibitions

2025 

TBD The Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden AL (upcoming)

2022 

seam/seem, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan AL

Imagined Landscapes, Featured Artist, The Little Green Store & Gallery, Huntsville, AL

Modulate, ALWCA gallery wall, Huntsville, AL

2020 

First Light Third Floor East Gallery, Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville, AL

Home Featured Artist, The Little Green Store and Gallery, Huntsville, AL

2019

Featured Artist, Mountain Valley Arts Council, Guntersville, AL

2018

Running in Tight Circles, Ramp Gallery, Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville, AL

Pop-up, 3rd Floor West Gallery, Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville, AL


Two Person Exhibitions

2023

though entry is barred Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL

Submerge Bells Gallery, Dothan, AL


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Visceral Bonds Vandiver Gallery, Anderson, SC

Call and Response Lowe Mill, Huntsville AL, Mezzanine Gallery UNCW, Wilmington, NC

Is it me? Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

ArtFields Lake City, SC

Transient Bodies Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC

Thesis Exhibition Lunder Arts Center, Lesley Art+Design, Cambridge, MA

2022

(EM)power (EM)brace (EM)body, Surface Design Association, Online

Labor of Love, ALWCA traveling Juried Exhibition, Lowe Mill, Wilson Hall UAH, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

Future Tense, SDA Juried Student Exhibition, Online

ArtFields, Lake City, SC (catalog), exhibition award

2021

Remembering Together: Marking Lives Covid, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (catalog)

Future Tense, SDA Juried Student Exhibition, Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

Embracing Art XIX, Juried exhibition, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, AL

2020

80/20 ALWCA Juried Exhibition, North Gallery, Lowe Mill, Huntsville, AL (catalog)

2019

Bridging the Gap: Postcards of The All Nation of Art, Women’s Caucus for Art Members Perspective Exhibition, A.I.R Gallery Brooklyn, NY

UNBOUND: Breaking the ties that bind us to the things that no longer serve us. ALWCA Exhibition, 3rd Floor East Gallery, Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville, AL (catalog)

Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art Member Showcase, Mountain Valley Arts Council, Guntersville, AL

200 Years of outRAGEous, Ramp Gallery, Lowe Mill, Huntsville, AL

2018

ECHOES: A response to objects in the Wiregrass Museum of Art’s permanent collection. ALWCA, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL (catalog)

2017

Bearing(s): The act of bringing forth. ALWCA member showcase, University of North

Alabama, Florence, AL (catalog)

Represent: ALWCA member showcase, The Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery,

Alabama State Council on the Arts in Montgomery, AL


Awards/Grants/Fellowships/Scholarships

2023 ArtFields Southeastern Partnership Award-Solo Exhibition, The Wiregrass Museum of Art

2021 MFA Visual Arts Dean’s Scholarship, Lesley University College of Art+Design


Bibliography

Print Media

Gregg Parker, “Baumbach’s designs in exhibition at Wiregrass Museum of Art” Madison

Record, October 18, 2022.

Featured website and social media artist, Women’s Caucus for Art, November 2022

“Spotlight: Mountain Valley Arts Council hosts Heather Baumbach in November” The

Reporter, Sand Mountain, November 5, 2019

Gregg Parker, “Baumbach’s Painting Shows Everyday Beauty” Madison Record, December

23, 2015

Gregg Parker, “Baumbach’s Art Reaches Theatre, Church and Festivals across Southeast”, Madison Record, July 24, 2014


Radio/Television

Arielle Stroman, Interview, “Art Talks, Heather Baumbach”, Halcyon Year, December 1, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLZXOdn4_7U

Simply Southern, Interview with Jim Allen, Television, Season 4, episode 15, July 8, 2018 , https://simplysoutherntv.net/season-4/

“Samantha Brown’s Places to Love, Huntsville, AL” Season 1 episode 105, Lowe Mill Segment, https://samantha-brown2018.com/episodes/season-1/huntsville-alabama/

Kate Lochte, “Baumbach’s Art Captures the Beauty of Everyday Life & Comes to

Lowertown” WKMS Radio, Murray State NPR, Murray, KY, May 11, 2015 https://www.wkms.org/arts-culture/2015-05-11/baumbachs-art-captures-the-beauty-of- everyday-life-comes-to-lowertown


Public Collections

(4) Large scale works, The Lodge at Gulf State Park, a Hilton Hotel, Gulf Shores, AL 2018

(33) 5”x7” Song Birds, The Cabins at Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, AL 2018

Red Cow, Large scale lobby installation, REO Fund 2 LLC, Atlanta, GA 2017


Television, Film, and Theater Design and Production Experience

Costume Design

As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost-Huntsville Shakespeare (’22) Our Town, Dido and Aeneas, Everyman-UAH (’21), She Kills Monsters, Virtual Realm-UAH (’20). Temp Odyssey- UAH (’20). La Cage Aux Follies-UAH (’19). Trojan Women-UAH (’19). Porch Creek Courage -Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theatre (FPCT) (’19). Freedom Riders-FPCT (’19). The Tempest-Huntsville Shakespeare (’19).The Laramie Project-UAH (’15). New Country- Cherry Lane Theatre NYC (’15). A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream-UAH (’15). The Never- Ending Story-FPCT (’14). Peter and the Wolf, Mr. Bear Squash You All Flat, Carnival of the Animals-The Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and FPCT Young People’s Concert (’14, ‘16). Steel Magnolias-Renaissance Theatre (’03). She Loves Me, A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Roanoke Island Festival Park, Manteo, N.C. (’00). Two Paths-independent short film directed by Michael Sloane(’01).


Assistant to the Costume Designer

Boris, independent AFI short film (’01), Win Ben Stein’s Money, That’s my Bush (’00-’01, Comedy Central) You Don’t Know Jack Carsey-Werner Productions (’00-’01 ). Into the

Woods, UNCSA (’97).


Cutter/Draper

The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged-UAH (’22) As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost-Huntsville Shakespeare (’22) Our Town, Dido and Aeneas, Everyman-UAH (’21), She Kills Monsters, Virtual Realm-UAH (’20). Temp Odyssey-UAH (’20). La Cage Aux Follies- UAH (’19). Trojan Women-UAH (’19). Porch Creek Courage -Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theatre (FPCT) (’19). Freedom Riders-FPCT (’19). The Tempest-Huntsville Shakespeare (’19).The Laramie Project-UAH A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream-UAH (’15). The Never- Ending Story-FPCT (’14). Peter and the Wolf, Mr. Bear Squash You All Flat, Carnival of the Animals-The Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and FPCT Young People’s Concert (’14, ‘16). A Time for Singing, Lo Frate 'Nnamorato, Little Dorrit, Die Fledermaus, The Time of Your Life, Ring Around the Moon, Summer Folk, Romeo and Juliet, Dead Souls-North Carolina School of the Arts (’98-’00)


Teaching and Lectures

2023 Part Time Instructor, The University of Alabama Huntsville

2023 Artist Talk, Lesley University College of Art+Design, Cambridge, MA

2022 Artist Talk, The Wiregrass Museum of Art

2022 Visiting Artist Workshop Improvised Fiber Sculptures, The Wiregrass Museum of Art

2020-2022 Part Time Lecturer, The University of Alabama Huntsville

2020 Keynote Speaker, Randolph School, National Art Honors Society Induction


Related Professional Activity

2022 Membership Committee member, Surface Design Association

2021-present Member, Costume Society of America

2021-present Member, Surface Design Association

2018, 2022 Member, Southeastern Theatre Conference

2017-present Member, Alabama Women’s Caucus for the Arts

2019 Membership Chair, Alabama Women’s Caucus for the Arts