Heidi Dauphin

Heidi Dauphin is a mixed media/ceramic artist, born in 1970 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Heidi earned a MFA in 2001 and BFA in 1992 from the University of Michigan. Heidi’s career started with teaching high school art in Michigan and followed by working as gallerist and curator in Massachusetts. Moving to Phoenix in 2004, Heidi focused on her studio practice, ongoing collections, and has completed several large-scale Public Art Projects, including Valley Metro Light Rail, City of Phoenix, and the City of Avondale. Throughout her career, she has completed three yearlong art projects (2000, 2010, 2020) that involved making art and collecting every day for a year. Heidi feels this ritual is essential to her art making process. She is also the Exhibitions Manager at Shemer Art Center. I think of my creative process as a journey. This journey began long ago. I am a collector traveling through life picking up bits and pieces of memories, items, places, and people along the way: all affecting my work. I concentrate on the accumulation of these things and incorporate multiples and repetition in my work. I am drawn to patterns, grids, numbers, calendars, and math. I examine the ideas of micro and macro within the arrangements of my collections. My curiosity leads me to look for connections and similarities in all that has been gathered along the journey.