Heather Schulte
Exhibition Overview
Explored will be the notion of “home” as a site for dialogue about socio-political issues. Through an immersive and interactive installation, viewers will be invited to settle in and engage with domestic objects and settings as an intersection of private and public space. We will consider questions of shelter, health, and safety and how they are inextricable from each other and economic and political contexts.
In the midst of growing housing crises, refugees seeking asylum, genocidal conflict, and the ongoing effects of a global pandemic, how can we expand our ideas and beliefs about “home” to radically welcome not only other people, but also fully embrace our own selves? Can we reanimate our most intimate spaces and admit these places of dialogue and conflict, illness and healing, cohabitation of private and public selves?
About Heather Schulte
Interdisciplinary Artist, Boulder CO
Schulte’s work combines hand-made textile materials and techniques with digital fabrication and design processes, analyzing the intersection of personal and public forms of language and communication. In 2020 she founded ‘Stitching the Situation,’ a collaborative tapestry documenting the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. She has exhibited throughout Colorado at numerous galleries and contemporary art spaces, including RedLine Contemporary and the Denver Art Museum, as well as various galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in publications such as, "Fiber Art Now," the "Surface Design Journal," The Denver Post, W.I.R.E.D., and numerous podcasts and independent magazines. She received her BFA from the University of NE-Lincoln in 2003.
Residency Period: 3/5/24 - 5/3/24
Exhibition opening: 5/3/24
Exhibition Dates: 5/3/24 - 5/26/24
PlatteForum Annex Gallery: 3575 Ringsby Ct. Denver, CO 80216
