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August 2023
https://www.arkansasartscene.com/home/interview-with-artist-heidi-carlsen-rogers
Grateful for the opportunity to share my work & words on the blog. Great to work
with Philip Mayeux & answer his thoughtful questions.
February 2023
2023 Women to Watch: A New World
National Museum of Women in the Arts - Arkansas Committee State Tour
Such an honor to give a gallery talk & work with the art students at the University of Arkansas FS last month - great creative energy & rich conversations!
January 2023
2023 Women to Watch: A New World
National Museum of Women in the Arts - Arkansas Committee State Tour;
Windgate Gallery of Art & Design, University of Arkansas; January - March 2023; Other various exhibition sites state of Arkansas,
This is the first stop of a year long exhibition traveling through the state of Arkansas this year. Grateful to have my tapestries alongside Aimée Papazian, Hannah McBroom, & Anaïs Dassé. Elected by guest curator Chaney Jewell, these artists comprise nominees for inclusion in the internationally renowned National Museum of Women in the Arts Women to Watchexhibition in Washington DC in 2024.
JUNE 2022
Grateful to have the opportunity to share my work at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as part of the Artist 360 gathering in June.
Such an honor to speak alongside the other grant recipients - an incredibly talented group of artists & creators. Thank you Walton Family Foundation and Mid-West America Arts Alliance. Image credit: Ironside Photography
Video Link: Artists 360 Full Circle 2022 - Crystal Bridges Museum
JANUARY 2021
Honored to be included into the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
2021-2023 Juried Artists Registry.
JANUARY 2021
Honored to be included in the 58th Juried Competition at the Masur Museum of Art curated by Dr. Kelli Morgan, Curator, Historian, and Culture Critic.
The show will be on view February 25 - May 8, 2021 in Monroe, Louisiana.
DECEMBER 2020
So grateful to be selected as a recipient for the 2021 ARTISTS 360 grant along with a group of 20 other artists. Such generosity from the Walton Family Foundation & Midwest America Arts Alliance.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Wiregrass Museum B20 Artist Interview on #WMAinspired Blog
SEPTEMBER 2020
Wiregrass Instagram
AUGUST 2020
Jessica Caldas & I will be doing an artist talk during the Wiregrass Museum on Friday, 8/14 at 7:00 Central Time. Come join us!
House Party for Art Website
House Party for Art UTube Channel
AUGUST 2020
The B20 show is up and can be viewed here:
The B20: Wiregrass Biennial 
JULY 2020
JANUARY 2019
Honored to be included into the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
2019-2020 Artists Registry. Juror: Courtney Taylor, curator, LSU Museum of Art
JULY 2018
My work was mentioned in a review of the 61st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
by art critic and curator Vicky A. Clark in the Chautauqua Daily.
"...so I am offering, in no particular order, my shortlist of works from this show that I think
deserve more attention.
Six, the last piece on my list, is the boldest work in the show. “I Am Flower (Power Mask) Red, Yellow, and White” demands attention... Two groups of flowers are arranged symmetrically in mirror images on the left and right sides of the inky black background. The reference to a mask in the title gives an idea of a performance prop, much like an African mask that becomes alive only through ritual. Although that is obviously not the case here, the reference increases the intensity factor. The color contrasts and rigid placement draw the eye and make us wonder about technique. "
Vicky A. Clark is an independent curator, critic, and teacher based in Pittsburgh.
She is currently working on the 2018 Biennial in Islamabad, Pakistan
Chautauqua Daily: 61st Annual Reveals "vitality and diversity of the arts"
JUNE/JULY 2018
61st Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Gallery
Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
June 24-July 17th, 2018; Artists Reception June 24th
MAY 2018
FLOWERS & FACADES : Dustyn Bork & Heidi Carlsen-Rogers
William F. Laman Library Gallery ; Little Rock, AR
May 18th - June 9th 2018; Opening Reception: May 18th, 5-8 pm
APRIL 2018
Electron Salon
Los Angeles Center forDigital Arts
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 14, 6-9
Spring 2018
NWACC CAmpus ; White Auditorium
Moderated by Dayton Castleman
Featuring: Kenneth Siemens, artist: Heidi Carlsen Rogers, artist; Purdy Eaton,artist;
Amethyst Rey Beaver, Assistant Curator of 21c; Michael Maizels, Assistant Professor of Art History at the U of A
Winter 2017
Temporary Contemporary Art Gallery - Group Show
Tourmaline Urban Lofts, Bentonville, AR
12/8/2017 - 2/15/2018
Summer 2017
Grateful to have my paintings included in volume 37 of Studio Visit magazine this summer - pages 30 -31.
Studio Visit Magazine
SPRING 2107:
Excited to be interviewed by Equinox Literary Magazine and the staff from
the University of Arkansas in Little Rock this spring. Grateful for the incredible article
and to share in such an in-depth way about my artwork & creative practice!
OCTOBER 2016:
What an amazing experience in October during the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
reception in Little Rock! So grateful to be one of the nine recipients of this generous
grant for 2016 and to have the opportunity to speak that evening about my artwork. Truly an honor.
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SEPTEMBER 2016:
So honored to be one of the recipients of the Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship awards for 2016!
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Arkansas Arts Council Article
APRIL 2016:
I had an opportunity this year to be part of a women's art show called WomanMade:NWA opening in April 2016.
I've been working on two distinct sides - first as the one who proposed, crafted, and helped curate the show, but also on the artist end - participating as a painter and creating a piece that will be shown alongside the other women artists.
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We asked the artists to submit a piece that represented their “signature” creative work. Optionally, it could include or explore a topic, symbol, or idea that comes from a uniquely female perspective.
I created a painting called Flower Portrait (Woman) and wrote about the work below.
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Flower Portrait (Woman)
Originally for the show, I was going to create a large painting that studied and explored the color pink, as this is a hue that is typically associated with women and being feminine.
But I shifted to thinking about the piece more in terms of the current series I am involved with called Flower Portraits, where I paint large abstracted drawings of flowers.
I decided explore both of those ideas together to represent what is to me a distinctly feminine symbol – a pink flower.
This flower is not a specific bloom, but one that is made-up - a compilation of the lines and shapes of flowers that I keep with me in my mind.
The shades of pink in the painting express the full life cycle of a flower in terms of color.
The colors speak to the grit and perseverance of the journey where a flower seeds, grows, buds, blossoms, then slowly starts to fade, eventually falling back to the ground where it began.
There is beauty throughout the changing stages of being a flower/woman – the colors tell that story as they fluctuate between vibrant and muted; fresh and withered; dewy and ashy; pale and deep.
The underlying surface is rough and gritty, representing where a flower comes from symbolically – dirt or soil.
Above the horizon line, the upper canvas focuses on the time in the life of a blossom when it is in the state of being exquisitely and most abundantly alive – fully beautiful.
The lower horizon tells of the fading, quieting, and greying that happens as the flower’s life cycle is winding down - when it will be brought back into the earth.
On the horizon line itself; the colors cross over into one another – swaying between youthfulness/blossoming and quieting/aging.
The piece was done in two parts because I thought one canvas could not express or hold the full story of the flower and her life cycle.
Even though this is technically a portrait, I wanted the painting to read in a landscape format with a firm horizon line because I consider the landscape to be extraordinary – something that feels monumental and expansive. I represent the “woman as flower” symbol as the same – powerful, beautiful, intricate, complex, with a presence that spills over the edges of this canvas.
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