HEIDI ZARGHAMI
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Heidi Cramer  (B. 1985 U.S.A.)
[email protected]


Education

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 

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

 

Solo Exhibitions

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 

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

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

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

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


Public Art Installations
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA. Nov. 2014

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


Commissions 
Fire Limbo Structure, Santa Cruz Fire Conclave for Burning Man, May 2012

Wall Mural, San Diego, CA 2012


Press

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

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

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

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

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

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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