Anne Xavier Heide work bio + cv
Anne is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL where they teach weaving, fabric design, and sculpture courses. Anne received their MFA in Fiber/Textiles at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS in May 2024. In May 2020, they completed a graduate certificate concentrated in hand papermaking at University of Iowa Center for the Book in Iowa City, IA. They graduated in Spring 2019 with a BA in Studio Art and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA.
In their current work, they consider the excess of usable clothing being produced due to global capitalism alongside the rigid gender and class norms that clothing embodies. They salvage donated secondhand clothes that are unlikely to find a new wearer, whether because they are worn out, defective, or are simply an unpopular style. Drawing on the generally unremarkable forms of everyday clothes and garment racks, they transform these unwanted clothes into artworks that create unexpected connections between different parts of the lifecycle of a garment, and between different articles of clothing. To make these works, they use traditional American craft practices used historically to repurpose old clothing such as quilting, rag rug making, and hand papermaking.
annexavierheide@gmail.com
instagram: @annexavierheide
EDUCATION
2021-2024
MFA in Fiber/Textiles with honors, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2019-2020
Graduate Certificate in Book Arts, University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA
2015-2019
BA in Studio Art with honors and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies with honors, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
(Forthcoming) Small group exhibition,Cross Threaded, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
(Forthcoming) Digital Weaving Lab Alumni Exhibition, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH
Thinking Through Tapestry, American Tapestry Alliance, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL
2025
Solo exhibition, overshot, interlocking, Blackhawk College Artspace Gallery, Moline, IL
Hexad 2025, Centennial Hall Gallery, Augustana College Center for Visual Culture, Rock Island, IL
Spring 25 Group Show Centennial Hall Gallery, Augustana College Center for Visual Culture, Rock Island, IL
2024
Fiber Flux: Midwest Educators in Textiles, Fiber Art, and Material Studies, Valade Family Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
The Art of Craftsmanship, Peters Valley Gallery, Layton, NJ
Interns Invitational Exhibit, 2024 Convergence conference, Wichita, KS
Master Pieces, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Interplay: Surface Design Association Student Exhibition, Dairy Barn Arts Center’s O’Bleness Gallery, Athens, OH
sh’bang fest, Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland, OH
Solo Exhibition, softline, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Never Ending Cycles: A Laundromat Soap Opera, E11even2 Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2023
Then and Now, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Togethering, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2022
Garment Surveying, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery Cases, Lawrence, KS
Walking in a Straight Line, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery Cases, Lawrence, KS
Wildfire, Jungle Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2021
Public Art Commission, Backyard Bash: Understories, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Solo Exhibition, Leaving Pants on the Floor, LGBTQ Iowa Archives and Library, Iowa City, IA
2020
Home and Auto, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA (canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Body Building: The Art of the Human Figure, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2019
2019 Chautauqua School of Art Students and Emerging Artists Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Fiber as Metaphor, Gallery Fritz, Santa Fe, NM
Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH (jurors: Karl Anderson & Andrea Gyorody)
RESIDENCIES
2026
Pollinator Co-op, virtual (May)
2025
Pollinator Co-op pilot program, virtual (October)
Digital Weaving Lab, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH (August)
ACRE, Stueben, WI (June)
2019
Summer Residency Program, Chautauqua School of Visual Art, Chautauqua, NY (June-August)
PRESENTATIONS + WORKSHOPS
2026
(Upcoming), Conference presentation, “the double keeps changing,” Warp Speed Presentations, Bridges and Connections Digital Weaving Conference, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH, June 24-26
Workshop, “Remembering Richard: Fostering Community in the Shadow of AIDS”, Augustana College Special Collections, Rock Island, IL (Held two drop-in workshops in collaboration with Augustana library and special collections where students, staff, faculty, and Quad Cities community members participated to create an AIDS quilt memorial panel for Augustana alumna Richard Van Truss. Designed quilt panel and assembled after completion of workshops), April 8
2025
Artist Talk, overshot, interlocking, Blackhawk College, Moline, IL, October 30
Workshop, “Mending Workshop,” 2025 Diversity Week, Augustana Campus Closet, Rock Island, IL (drop-in two hour mending workshop where college students brought articles of clothing to learn how to repair and repurpose), April 30
2023
Workshops, “Functional Mending,” Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS (Taught two-session mending course to adult students that covered hand and machine sewing techniques to restore worn clothing to functional condition), October 3 and October 10
Artist Panelist,Togethering, Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery, Lawrence, KS (moderators: Joey Orr & David Cateforis), April 5
2022
Workshops, “Sew and Tell: Visible Mending Workshops,” Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (led 3 two hour mending sessions for community members, connecting our work in the sessions to other artists using mending and work from Spencer Museum permanent collection), July 7, July 24, September 11
Student Gardener,Natural Dye Garden at KU Native and Medicinal Plant Garden, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, May-September
2019
Artist Talk,Chautauqua School of Art Artist Presentations, Hultquist Center, Chautauqua, NY, July
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
August 2024-May 2026
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL (Starting August 2024, teach six to seven art and design courses per academic year including: ART 101: Drawing, GRD 190: Surface Design, ART 241: Sculpture, ART 251: Loom Weaving, ART 252: Fabric Design, ART 253: Fibers: Sculpture, ART 377: Contemporary Issues, ART 492: Senior Inquiry in Art. Manage fibers studio and co-manage sculpture and drawing studios. Purchase supplies and manage budgets independently for each course. Supervise work-study students and staff studio technician with tasks related to instructional support and exhibition coordination)
August 2022-May 2024
Instructor of Record, University of Kansas Department of Visual Art, Lawrence, KS (Taught one section of ART 133: Fundamentals of Fiber each fall and spring semester)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2025
Juror, Maple City Fine Arts Exhibit, Geneseo Art League, Geneseo, IL, September 27
2024
Intern, 2024 Convergence conference, Handweavers Guild of America, Wichita, KS, July 9-14
2022-24
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Fiber/Textiles, University of Kansas Department of Visual Art, Lawrence, KS (maintained four blended use studio spaces for machine and hand sewing, synthetic and natural dye, fabric printing, embroidery, weaving, digital weaving in collaboration with 2-3 other GTAS and area professors and studio technician), August 2022-May 2024
Juror, USD 497 Public Schools Art Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS, annually in April
2022
Summer Graduate Studio Assistant in Fiber/Textiles, University of Kansas Department of Visual Art, Lawrence, KS (Worked on studio maintenance projects with Professor Mary Anne Jordan and studio technician including re-covering fabric print tables, rearranging studio spaces for optimal workflows, organizing and inventorying supplies and equipment), June-July
Critiques, ART 500: 3D Construction in Textiles, University of Kansas Department of Visual Art, Lawrence, KS, February 23 and September 14
2021
Costume Designer,Make Thee An Ark directed by Raychel Ceciro, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL, October
GRANTS + AWARDS
2024
School of the Arts Research Grant, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2023
Summer Research Award, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Dorris Carrey Scholarship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Office of Graduate Studies Summer Research Scholarship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Scholarly Development Fund Scholarship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2022
School of the Arts Travel Award, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Daniel Mac Morris Award, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Partial Scholarship for Recording Surfaces Summer Workshop, Penland School of Craft, Bakersfield, NC
2019
Award for Excellence for Clothed System, Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
2024
Rogers, Anne S. softline. (Published under former name) https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1ik10ij/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_3069444167
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
“New art gallery explores themes of ritual and repetition,” The Daily Iowan https://dailyiowan.com/2021/02/03/new-art-gallery-explores-themes-of-ritual-and-repetition/
2019
Fiber as Metaphor Exhibition Catalog, Santa Fe, NM
“Papering over Everything: The Seventh National Juried Exhibition at the Morgan Conservatory,” Collective Arts Network Journal http://canjournal.org/2019/03/papering-over-everything-the-seventh-national-juried-exhibition-at-the-morgan-conservatory/?fbclid=IwAR3HofS8xuRfDCvB4wsGaqvozKSvphfW8VEg05394ewFyjALsbQhKk_HKRQ#.XJ2LpoqQAJ8.facebook]
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