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Heidi Zarghami is a mixed-media artist focused on environmental topics. Her materials include adopted earth matter and upcycled human-made surplus. Present in Heidi’s work are characteristics of the female body, and themes of life and decay. Heidi worked as the Studio Director of the Harrison Studio, managing the Harrison's Stanford University Archive and assisting The Force Majeure; a 50 year project that aims to assist the migration of plant species in areas of glacial melt due to global warming. In 2020 she completed the Evergreen GIS Certification and the Masters of Environmental Studies at Evergreen State College. She now resides in the Pacific Northwest where she continues to creatively engage and educate audiences about the health of the environment through art and science. 

I believe art is not only a reflection of the state of consciousness in our society, but a way to creatively imagine our future. I see the relationship between the environment and humanity as one of reciprocal influence, and this interplay is where I derive my creative inspiration.


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Curriculum Vitea

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​Heidi Zarghami
  (B. 1985 U.S.A.)
heidizarghami@gmail.com


Education

Evergreen State College, Master of Environmental Studies, 2020

University of California Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) 2013 

Mesa Community College (High Distinction), Associate of Arts  2007   

East Valley Institute of Technology, Certificate of Completion  2002 

 

Grants/Awards 

2020 Artists on Board, City of Olympia's Temporary Public Mural Installation

2016 Recipient of the Ebb and Flow Artist Grant Temporary Public Installation

2015 Recipient of the Ebb and Flow Arts Parade Grant Award 

2013 Recipient of the Susan Benteen and William Hyde Irwin Scholarship


2013 Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship

2013 Art + Body/Art + Water Irwin Grant

2012 Deans Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

2012 Deans Honors

2012 Campus Merit Sage Scholarship

2013 Irwin Project Grant

2012 Irwin Project Grant

2011 Irwin Project Grant

2006 Award for Volunteer Excellence,  Mesa Arizona Center for the Arts

 

Public Art Installations
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Octopus Public Mural, Olympia, WA 2020

The Chrysalis Project, Artists on Board, Olympia, WA. 2020

Earthen Robe, Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz, CA. 2015

Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA. 2014

A Place of Opening, UCSC Arboretum Aroma Garden, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2014

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​Solo Exhibitions

MAH Summer Art Works, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2016

single use, disposable. Sesnon Underground, UCSC, CA. March 2013


Processions, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, UCSC, CA. October 2012

Makers at the MAH, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012

First Friday: Heidi Cramer, Santa Cruz Public Library, CA. May 2012


Selected Group Exhibitions 
Quilting for the Climate: The Climate Quilt Exhibit, Olympia, WA. 2021

Trash Pacific – Inspiration from The Great Pacific Gyre, Studio Bongiorno, San Jose, CA. 2015

50/50: Fifty Artists, 5 Decades. UCSC Alumni Exhibition, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. Feb. 2015

Santa Cruz Super 8, Sentinel Printers, Santa Cruz, CA, Dec. 2014

Cruzando Fronteras, el Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, MX, June 2014

The Cradle Project, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2014

Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA, May 2014

The Cradle Project, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. Feb. 2014

Relational Experiments Around a Dinner Table: Chakra Dinner, bajaINarts, Tijuana, MX.  Sep. 2013

Crossing Borders, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA. June. 2013

IRWIN 2013, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Earth Day, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Works in Progress, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Crossing Borders, Emergent Art Spaces, Online Exhibition, CA. November 2012

Trash to Treasure, Museum of Art and History, CA. October 2012

Phantoms, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. October 2012

Save Our Shores: Monument, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. September 2012

Such Sweet Sorrow: Phantom Series & Performance, Community Television Center, June 2012

Listening to the Earth II: Temporality, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2012

Spontaneous Nature, Leeds Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2012

Fire and Glow Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, 2012

Pop Up Art Project, Rittenhouse Window front Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. April-May 2012

Book Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, January 2012


Performances

LOVE Long Beach: Long Beach Live Music and Art Festival. 2017

Goodnight Mother: Long Beach Artwalk. Long Beach CA 2017

Artivism: An Activation, Long Beach. June-July, 2017 

Here come the Ecosexuals!, Center for Sex and Culture: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, CA. 2015

Ebb and Flow: Kinetic Sculpture Parade, Santa Cruz City Arts Council, Tannery Arts Center, and the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 6 2015


Commissions 
PNW Murals, Spanaway Family Dental and Pediatrics, Spanaway, WA 2021

Lush Locks and Lash Signage, Olympia, WA 2020

Neon Night Performance, Club Ripples, Long Beach CA 2017

Fire Limbo Structure, Santa Cruz Fire Conclave for Burning Man 2013

Meditation Mural, San Diego, CA 2012


Press​

The Chrysalis Project: collaboration and community-building through arthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJI4SKewydE&feature=emb_logo

Artists to beautify some of the boarded-up downtown Olympia storefronts with murals​
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article242364581.html

San Francisco Gate: S.F. Pride Parade Celebrates Marriage Equality
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Pride-Parade-celebrates-marriage-ruling-6354281.php?cmpid=email-desktop#photo-8228434

Hilltromper: Studio Bongiorno Art Show to Address Gyre Harm
http://siliconvalley.hilltromper.com/tag/art-show

Good Times: Bridging Troubled Waters
http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-lifestyles/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-/6615-bridging-troubled-water.html

Good Times: Exhibition review of Cradles of Change:
http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-lifestyles/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-/5450-cradles-of-change.html

Artists on Art
http://www.artistsonart.net/heidi-cramer-dmitri-zurita/

Sentinel: Spotlight Santa Cruz Artists 
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_22306275/christa-martin-spotlight-santa-cruz-artists-have-big?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.c

Works in Progress at the Museum of Art and History
http://www.santacruzmah.org/2012/work-in-progress/

GLOW: Fire and Glow Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-march-fire-art/

Natural Selection exhibition assistant webpage:
http://naturalselectionartshow.blogspot.com/

KZSC Artists on Art Podcast
http://www.artistsonart.net/katarinalanfranco/

Rittenhouse Art Installation:
http://www.firstfridaysantacruz.com/2012/03/sesnon-art-gallery-ucsc-pop-up-art-project/
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2012/04/05/first-friday-art-tour-celebrates-100th-event/
Makers at the MAH:
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3187/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santacruzmah/6722885493/in/photostream/

Museum of Art and History: Radical Craft Night
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-at-mah-2/

Museum of Art and History: School Days Event:
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-may-school-days/

Santa Cruz Public Library 1st Friday Book Sculpture:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150858808149513.431602.299389034512&


Teaching

Walking the Line, Instructor, LOVE Long Beach CA. Jun-Aug 2017

Kinetic Sculpture Build Workshop Instructor,

Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Jun. 5 2015


Cradle Project Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Feb. 2014

Internal Exhibition Drawing Teacher, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Oct. 2013

Plastic Fusion Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012

The Resource and Research Facilitation Project Co-Lecturer, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012

Teachers Assistant for Professor Jennifer Parker, Metal II, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012


Residencies/Workshops

LOVE Long Beach, Flow Workshop, Long Beach CA 2017

MAH Art Works Summer Residency: 4-week onsite public residency, Santa Cruz, CA. 2016

Snapshot Day, San Lorenzo River: Santa Cruz CA 2016

Doc/Undoc: Performance Workshop with Guillermo Gomez Pena, UCSC, CA. 2014

Drinking Fire: Performance and ArtBar, The Art Research Office, Santa Cruz, CA, 2014 

ProPhoto Alliance Workshop with Lewis Watts, Inverness, CA 2012



Curatorial Activities 

Live Art Coordinator: LOVE Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. 2017

Artivism Now: Event Coordinator, Long Beach CA. 2017

1000 New York Street LIVE-and-WORK Co-creator, Long Beach CA. 2017

Exhibition Coordinator: Antinomias, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, MX. 2014

Exhibition Designer: Trabajos y Perspectivos, Municipal Palace, Tijuana, Mexico. 2014

Curators Assistant: IRWIN 2013 exhibition, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Intern at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011-2013

Art Department Chair Interview Committee Member, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Co-Founder of the Sesnon Underground, Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA. 2012-2013

Curator/Research Assistant at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012

Leading member of the Student Art Movement, UCSC 2012-2013

Artist Assistant, Katarina LanFranco, Natural Selections, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011


Collaborative Projects

2020 The Chrysalis Project: Olympia Arts Alliance (with Carrie Zeigler)

2016 Bacteria Mural: Museum of Art and History (with Alev Bilgensoy)

2016 Love is Like a River: Museum of Art and History (with Kelly Skye)

2012 Zonkeys: The Documentary, on-going (with TJ Art Collective) 

2012 Balance, Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita) 

2012 Phantoms, Sesnon Underground Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita) 

2012 Porter Public Art Day, University of California Santa Cruz, CA (with Porter College and UCSC Student Art Movement) 


Employment
Water Quality Education and Outreach Assistant: City of Lacey, WA 2021

Stormwater Education and Outreach: City of Olympia, Wa 2020

ArcGIS Map Creation: American Energy Society, Olympia, Wa 2020

Artist Assistant: Carrie Ziegler Eco-Art, Olympia, WA 2020-2021

Performer: Dragon Rising and Artivism Now, Long Beach, CA 2017

Book Publishing and Design Assistant: The Harrison Studio, Santa Cruz, CA. 2016

Artist Assistant: Laurie Palmer, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2016

Archive Manager: Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle Center for Sex and Culture. San Francisco, CA. 2015 


Studio Director: Newton & Helen Harrison, The Center for the Study of the Force Majeure. Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2015

Exhibition Coordinator: Emergent Art Space, Tijuana, MX. 2014

Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery. 2012-2013

Artists Assistant: Victoria May, Victoria May Studio. 2013

Directors Assistant: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2011-2012

Photographer/Photographer Assistant: Greg Casey Photography. 2011

Gallery Host: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2011
 
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