Heather Baumbach
Studio 2053
2211 Seminole Drive
Huntsville, AL 35805
Born: 1976 Allentown, Pennsylvania
Lives and Works: Huntsville, Alabama
Education
2023 MFA (Pending), Lesley University, Boston, MA (expected January 2023)
2000 BFA in Costume Design, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
1994-1996 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Theatre courses)
Solo Exhibitions
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, 3rd 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
2016
Featured Artist, The Little Green Store and Gallery, Huntsville, AL
2015
Featured Artist, Green Street Market Nasa Day on the Square, Huntsville, AL
2014
Featured Artist, 22nd Annual Gallery Tour, The Artery, Huntsville, AL
Featured Artist, Earth Fare, Huntsville, AL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
(EM)power (EM)brace (EM)body, Fall 2022 Selections Online Exhibition, Surface Design Association
Labor of Love, ALWCA traveling Juried Exhibition, Lowe Mill, Wilson Hall UAH, Huntsville Museum of Art
Future Tense, SDA Juried Student Exhibition
ArtFields, Lake City, SC (catalog), exhibition award with The Wiregrass Museum of Art
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, Alabama
Big Spring Park, Arts Huntsville, Von Braun Center, Huntsville, AL
2015
Music Inspired Art, High Cotton Arts, Athens, AL
Commissions
2018
(4) Large scale works, pastel and acrylic on wood panel, The Lodge at Gulf State Park, a
Hilton Hotel, Gulf Shores, AL 2018
(33) 5”x7” Song Birds, Pastel and acrylic on wood panel, The Cabins at Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, AL
2017
Red Cow, Large scale lobby piece, pastel and acrylic on wood panel, REO Fund 2 LLC,
Atlanta, GA
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
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