NIAD’s prolific storyteller artist Heather Hamann invites you to dine at her miniature table where roasted chicken, pasta, carrots, and dozens of strawberries keep her royal fairy folk well fed. Heather writes and illustrates fantasy epics, and uses the ceramics studio to sculpt the environments, characters, and food featured in her fables.
// Heather’s available work //
recent exhibition history
Mud Pie Mansion, organized by Kristin Farr // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2023
Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD // Oakland Museum of California // May 2023
Animal, Animal, Vegetable, Vegetable, Mineral, Mineral organized by Nick Schutzenhofer // NIAD Online Exhibition // March 2023
Waking, Breathing, Making! organized by Laura Kamian McDermott // NAID Online Exhibition // February 2023
Holiday Gift Guide // “Between Worlds” organized by Joey Enos // NIAD Online Exhibition // December 2022
Making in Color organized by Edwige Charlot // NIAD Online Exhibition // November 2022
A Stick In The Snow organized by Joanna and Milo Moyer-Battick // NIAD Online Exhibition // October 2022
Blow Like Magic In Their Face And Vanish organized by James Sterling Pitt // October 2022
Whales and Pencil Holders, organized by Emma Spertus // NIAD Annex Exhibition // September 2022
Mash Up, organized by Kiera Lofgreen // NIAD Online Exhibition // September 2022
A Little Bit of Everything: Fashion & Fiber at NIAD // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // July 2022
Living forces, organized by Fernanda Martinez // NIAD Online Exhibition // July 2022
In Love., organized by Meg Pohlod // NIAD Online Exhibition // May 2022
Superbloom, organized by Erin McCluskey Wheeler // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // April 2022
Connect the Dots // SAIC Wellness Center, Chicago, IL // March 2022
Ripples, organized by Esther Mallouh // UC Hastings Law, San Francisco // March 2022
Eternal Idol, organized by Emily Harris // NIAD Online Exhibition // February 2022
Voice Inside, organized by Sunila Bajracharya // NIAD Online Exhibition // January 2022
Unseen: The Hidden Labor of Women // Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA // January 2022
Road to Nowhere, selected by Eric Shiner // NIAD Online Exhibition // January 2021
Be Heard. Speak Up., organized by Fenwick & West // NIAD Windows Exhibition // 2020
Heather Hamann’s FEAST // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2019
recent press
The Editorial Magazine: Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development (July 27, 2020)
Connect the Dots exhibition catalog // Wellness Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago // April 2022