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