I follow  an intuitive path influenced by my love to travel as well as my internal drive to understand myself as a spiritual being.  Having worked as an  artist for over twenty years, I have developed a visual language that continues to unearth layers of my life.  The works I create speak to the intricate balance between inner & outer experiences where serendipitously the unseen often becomes visible. 

Interested in purchasing or commissioning an artwork, booking an exhibition, workshop or lecture...Contact me -  Heidi Darr-Hope

All artwork copyright Heidi Darr-Hope.  © 2004  All Rights Reserved.  No images may be reproduced without written consent from the artist.

 

 

 

Video Interviews   (back to top)
The following site: http://cfmedia.scetv.org/artopia/sculpture/artist/hdarrhope/index.html will take you to a series of video interviews produced by South Carolina Educational Television.   Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.     Cecil B. DeMille	photo by Alex Gardiner

 

 

 

EDUCATION   (back to top)

Post Graduate: The New Seminary, NYC, NY, an interfaith seminary. Ordained 2005 Intensive Study Program, C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2002 Dream Analysis (Jungian Perspective) Two Year Certification Haden Institute, Charlotte, NC 1998 -1999 Dream Tending Intensive. Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, Charlotte, NC, 1999 The Inner Marriage. Marion Woodman, Hilton Head, SC, 1998 The Illuminated Manuscript.  Penland School, Penland, NC, 1997 Art as Medicine: The Healing Quilt. Penland School, Penland, NC, 1995 Mystical Symbolic Objects. Penland School, Penland, NC, 1990   MFA, University of South Carolina, 1982 BFA, University of South Carolina, 1976

 

WORK EXPERIENCE  (back to top)

Present      Professional Studio Artist (since 1982)      Artist in Residence and Gallery Director, Palmetto Health’s South Carolina Cancer Center      Columbia, SC (since 1995)      Haden Institute Faculty Member (since 2002)      Healing Icons and Circle of Dreams, a series of lectures and workshops that present art      as an alternate form of  physical, emotional and spiritual healing      (since 1994, detailed listing upon request).  Click here -workshops- for more information. 2005 & 2008 Summer Dream Conference, Haden Institute, Hendersonville, NC 2004 - 2007 Spring - Creativity Workshops, Mallorca, Spain.   1998 - 2001 -Teachers' Creativity Workshops, District 2 School System, Columbia, SC 1996 & 1997 - Common Boundary Annual Conference         Open Studio, Sponsored by Common Boundary Magazine         Washington, DC / Crystal City, VA  1996 - Palliative Medicine Conference - Mayo Clinic - Orlando, FL  1993 - 1995 - MFA Field Faculty Member for Norwich University. Norwich, Vermont  1982 - 1998 - Artist-in-Resident, Throughout SC -       worked with students to create site-specific large-scale mixed media constructions.      (listing upon request)   1980-1982- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, University of South Carolina   1978-1980- Art Instructor, Special Constituencies Program, SC Arts Commission. (Statewide)        Art for Teens, Art in the Prisons, and Art for Elders.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT (back to top)

2004  Collections Committee, Columbia Museum of Art (two year term) 2002 - present         Columbia Design League (Six year term)          McKissick Museum Board (Three year term) 1995 - present - Ongoing support for Planned Parenthood 2001 Columbia Choral Society 2000 Juror, TaxsmART Competition, South Carolina Tax Commission 1996 Juror, York County Annual Student Exhibition, Rock Hill, SC         Museum Exhibition Committee, Columbia Museum of Art 1995 Juror, Atalaya Arts Festival, Myrtle Beach, SC         Advisory Board, Southeastern Art and Craft Exposition, Columbia Museum of Art         Board of Directors, Friends of Art Education for District One, Columbia, SC 1994 Juror, Piedmont Craftsmen, Winston-Salem, NC         Juror, Annual Exhibition of Art Instructors of District 1, Columbia, SC 1992 Board of Directors, The Artisans Center of SC, Walterboro, SC 1991 Juror, Visual Artist Grants, SC Arts Commission, Columbia, SC 1990 Vice-President, Guild of South Carolina Artists, Columbia, SC

 

AWARDS AND HONORS    (back to top)

2004       South Carolina Educational Television's Arts Educational Web site Featured Artist - Sculpture 2001      Ten Women Making a Difference in the Midlands - Midlands Woman  Magazine May/June 2001 2000      Produced Healing Icons® - an educational and promotional video.           Creative Links: Working with At-Risk Youth (HIV-AIDS Population),           Funded by the National Endowment of the Arts & the South Carolina             State Museum. Selected by the NEA as one of the 20 top grants of the year. 1998      Special Projects Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission 1996      Special Projects Grant, Very Special Arts National - Washington, DC 1995     Special Projects Grant, SC Arts Commission 1994     Special Projects Grant, SC Arts Commission 1992      Individual Small Grant, Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties      Special Projects Grant, SC Arts Commission 1991      Individual Small Grant, Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties      Exhibiting Member of the Piedmont Craftsmen 1990     Individual Small Grant, Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties     Special Projects Grant, SC Arts Commission 1989      ZSK Factory Consultation, Krefeld, Germany 1981     Craft Fellowship, SC Arts Commission

 

Selected Exhibitions (Listings below)  (back to top)

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions (back to top)    (move down to Invitational &  juried exhibition)

2002      Night Visions, Carol Saunders Gallery, Columbia, SC 2001       Healing Icons, "Fish or Cut Bait" Gallery, Edisto Island, SC       Contemporary Icons, Spartanburg Museum of Art, Spartanburg, SC 2000      Night Visions, Jung Educational Center, Houston, Texas       Night Visions, Francis Marion College, Florence, SC 1996        Creating Ritual, Kershaw Fine Arts Center, Camden, SC       Necessary Losses, Carol Saunders Gallery, Columbia, SC       Healing Icons, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1994      Pathway Icons, Spirit Square Gallery, Charlotte, NC 1993      Pathway Icons, Carol Saunders Gallery, Columbia, SC      Pathway Icons, Gallery 500, Elkins Park, PA 1992      Pathway Icons, Danville Museum of Art, Danville, VA

 

 

SELECTED INVITATIONAL & JURIED (back to top)       (move down)
	2008     Spring for Art.  McKissick Museum, USC.  Columbia, SC 2007     Back in the Sandbox: 7 artists at play, Cats on a Leash. Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC 2006     Chapter 2: What's Love got to Do With It?  Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC 2005      What's Love Got To Do With It?  Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC 2004      Society of American Mosaics, Irving Arts Center, Irving Texas      Intuitions. Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC      Cats on a Leash. Carol Saunders Gallery. Columbia, SC      InspirARTe - Acercaminto Hispano de Carolina del Sur, Columbia, SC 2003      Sacred Art. The Art Garage, Columbia, SC 2002      Women in Black. Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC 1999      Mexican Inspirations: The Influence of Travel. University of South Carolina Lancaster, SC      Craft: Selections from the State Art Collection, NationsBank Plaza, Columbia, SC 1998      Imprints and Implications, Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC 1997      Creativity, Imagination and Healing, Common Boundary Conference, Washington, DC 1996      Making/Sharing/Seeing: Art That Teaches and Heals, Winthrop Univ., Winthrop, SC 1995      Winchester Craft Show, Winchester, NY      Piedmont Crafts, Winston-Salem, NC      The Designer Craft Show, Richmond, VA      The Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC      ACC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

 

SELECTED INVITATIONAL & JURIED  (back to top)      (move down)

1994                           Images of Faith, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC      Small Works, Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southampton, NY      The Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC      The Designer Craft Show, Richmond, VA 1993      Small Works, Gallery 500, Elkins Park, PA      Pathway Icons, River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN      The Philadelphia Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA 1992      Capital I -Convergence 1992- Washington, DC             (juror-Michael Monroe - awarded 3rd prize) 1991     Fiberart International, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts     Contemporary Images, Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, KY     Out of the Tropics, International Gallery, San Diego, CA     The ZSK Project, The Society of Contemporary Art Pittsburgh, PA     Spotlight '91-ACC Southeast Crafts, Mississippi Museum of  Art, Jackson, MS 1990     Holiday Exhibition, Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, IL     Stitched Images, Gallery 500, Elkins Park, PA 1989     Seven Artists, Deutschen Textilmuseums Krefeld, Krefeld,  Germany     International Gallery, San Diego, CA     The Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC

 

SELECTED INVITATIONAL & JURIED continued (back to top)

1987    DeKalb Council for the Arts Invitational, Atlanta, GA 1986     SC Arts Commission Annual Exhibition, 1981, 1983, 1984, Columbia, SC     Allegorical Images: Great American Gallery, Atlanta, GA     The Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC   1984     USA/ Portrait of the South, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy 1983     Fibers/Paper/Drawing Invitational, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL    *Breaking with Tradition, Centennial Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada       (selected for traveling exhibition until 1985)     *Fabric/Nexus, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Arrowmont, TN 1982     Needle Expressions, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN,       (selected for traveling exhibition through 1983     Statements of Art, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR     6th National Textile, Weber State College, Ogden, UT 1981     Access to the Arts, J Pendergast Gallery, Jamestown, NY     Annual Exhibition, The Galleria, Spokane, WA     Paper Object, Virginia Arts Center, Virginia Beach, VA- Award, traveled until 1983     Fibers/Fabric, Springfield Art Gallery, Springfield, IL     Paper and Clay, E.H. Little Gallery, Memphis, TN

  

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (back to top)  (move down)

Home Box Office, Atlanta, GA Convex Co., LTD, Hong Kong Coca Cola USA Bogner GmbH, Munich, Germany Georgia Textile Manufacturing, Atlanta GA Madeira Threads LTD- USA and UK Textilforum Magazine, Hannover, Germany  Waelkens, Oostrozebeke, Belguim Arthur Anderson & Co. Atlanta, GA NCNB Corporation, Columbia, SC Sin Woo GMT, Seoul, South Korea Marriott Corporation, Orlando, FL South Carolina State Art Collection Ganek and Wright, Atlanta, GA Southern Bell, Miami, FL Cousins Management, Atlanta, GA SC National Bank, Columbia, SC Micheletti & Co., Milan, Italy Landmarks Group, Atlanta, GA Palmetto Conservation Foundation, Columbia, SC

Palmetto Conservation Foundation Three mosaic mixed media panels

         

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS   (back to top)

Southeastern Freight Lines, Corporate Office Juki Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan Koo Consulting Group, White Plains, NY Columbia College, Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC First Union Bank, Atlanta, GA Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA Bell Communications, Philadelphia, PA South Carolina State Museum Providence Hospital, Columbia, SC Lizard’s Thicket, Columbia, SC *The White House Holiday Collection, Washington, DC Palmetto Health South Carolina Cancer Center, (Richland and Baptist Campus) Columbia, SC ZSK Stickmaschinen, Krefeld, Germany and Concord, NH   **Numerous private collections in Philadelphia PA, Washington, DC, Houston, TX, Atlanta, GA and throughout the Southeast.

Lizard's Thicket Restaurant, Columbia, SC

 

COMMISSIONED WORKS  (back to top)     (move down)
	Ongoing - Annual Award, World Affairs Council, Columbia, SC      2008 recipients - Bob Coble & Dr. Andrew Sorensen      2007 recipient - Mr Ed Sellers      2006 recipient - Ms. Sabine Lang      2005 recipient - Mr. Palmer "Satch" Krantz      2004 recipient - Senator Fritz Hollings      2003 recipient - Jaspar Salmond      2002 recipient - Governor John West      2001 recipient - South Carolina Port Authority      2000 recipient - Phillip Lader      1999 recipient - Fred Monk      1998 recipient - Governor Robert E. McNair      1997 recipient - Sister Mary Jacobs      1996 recipient - Ambassador Richard L. Walker      1995 recipient - Brigadier General Charles F. Bolden, Jr.      1994 recipient - Governor Carol Campbell 2003   St. Stephen’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Reliquary of Faith, Lexington, SC 2002    Healing Shrine - 8th Floor Oncology, PR Baptist Hospital, Columbia, SC    From the Earth - mosaic panels. Palmetto Conservation Foundation 2000    Reliquary of Healing - South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC         In honor of World AIDS Day, December 1    Steel Palmettos, City of Columbia and the Cultural Council, Columbia, SC                     Circles of Healing, South Carolina Cancer Center, Columbia, SC

 

 

 

COMMISSIONED WORK continued  (back to top)

1999     South Carolina Cancer Center, Columbia, SC           Circles of Healing           Healing Shrine           Reliquary to Survivorship 1998    South Carolina Cancer Center, Columbia, SC           Circle of Healing: Autumn Cycle           Circle of Healing - Bone Marrow Transplant Unit    The White House Holiday Ornament  Project 1993    The White House Sacred Objects and Adornments    Curated by Michael Monroe former director of the    Smithsonian’s Renwick Museum 1992    ZSK, Krefeld, Germany    Computer Generated Embroidery Design on hand painted    background to be produced as a promotional gift.

Reliquary of Healing          South Carolina Cancer Center

 

THE ARTIST IN PRINT  (back to top)   (move down)
Crafting Personal Shrines by Carol Owen to order www.larkbooks.com/book/CategoryBookDisplay.asp?BookKey=312975

 

 

THE ARTIST IN PRINT   (back to top)    (move down)

Books           Elizabeth Anderson MFA and Kate Smith-Hanssen, Ph.D.        Fire in the Womb: Mothers and Creativity.  Xlibris, 2003.  To order - www.xlibris.com *Fiberarts Design Book VI, Lark Publications, 1995 *Fiberarts Design Book IV, Lark Publications, 1991 PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS   * denotes image of artwork contained in article May/June 2001 * Katie McElveen, 10 Women Making a Difference in the Midlands.             Midlands Woman Magazine December 12, 2000 * Diane di Costanza, Altering Consciousness:             A South Carolina artist works with cancer patients- Healing Icons®.              www.beliefnet.com/story/58/story_5801_3.html January 18, 2000  Kathryn Winiarski, The Art of Healing. The State Newspaper Dec. 1998  Marshall Swanson, Heidi Darr-Hope: Greeting Cards from the Edge, Carolinian October 1996 * Mary Gilkerson, "Necessary Losses", South Carolina Arts September 7, 1996  Claudia Smith Brinson, "Civil Conversations:            Art process becomes means of talking with diseases", The State Newspaper 1994 *  Tom Stanley, "Commentary- New Craft/New Art", Craft of the Carolinas (Catalog) Sept. 1994 *"ZSK USA"-Full page color image, Stitches Magazine  Nov/Dec 1993 * Jane Kessler, "American Craft in South Carolina"          Fiberarts Magazine Aug / Sept. 1993 * "Glass/Mixed Media Gallery", American Craft Magazine

              


 

THE ARTIST IN PRINT     (back to top) * denotes images contained in article

April, May, June 2008 * Shayna Katzman, Heidi Darr-Hope.  Undefined: Book 2          www.beundefined.com 1993  * Tom Patterson, "A Small Part of a Big Picture Without Edges"          Kentucky- South Carolina Exchange, Lexington Printers, catalog April/May 1993 * "People and Places", American Craft Magazine     November 8, 1992 * Jim Washington, "Retablos, Keyholes and Political Statements"          Danville Register May 1992 * Bradford R. Collins, "Mixed Company: The Case for Old-Fashioned          High Art", Collections Magazine Spring 1992 * Cover Image, "Arts Commission Triennial", SC State Museum: Images Aug, 1990 *"Traveling into a Beautiful World", Madeira News, (British) April 1990 (cover Image)  "A Marriage of Art and Industry", Stitches Magazine Nov. 1989 *"ZSK Artists Workshop", PI Journal, Pub-inter Corp. (Japanese) Dec, 1989 *Beatrijs Sterk, "Art and Industry", Deutsches Textilforum, (German) 1989  *Fiberarts Design Book II, Lark Publications Sept/Oct 1986 "Out of the Blue: Aerial Images", Fiberarts Magazine 1984  Richard Fisher and Gerardo Guerrieri, USA Volti Del Sud, Fratelli Palombi- Roma Sept. 3, 1982 *Barbara Curtain, "Paper Becomes Art in the Right Hands", Gazette-Times            (Corvallis, Oregon)

PUBLICATIONS (back to top)

Darr-Hope, Heidi.  My Turn: Thoughts on the Day of the Dead      FreeTimes. October 24 - 30, 2007 Darr-Hope, Heidi. Felicia Smith. Art and Healing. Crosswalk.     October 2001 Darr-Hope, Heidi. Sue P. Heiney, Laura Zaidman, Ed.      Sometimes Words Are Not Enough. 2000.      ISBN 1-889863-02-5 Darr-Hope, Heidi. Sue P. Heiney, Carole D. Howell.       Breast Cancer: The Supportive Survivors. Reflections.       Fourth Quarter 1999 Darr-Hope Heidi, Sue P. Heiney.       Healing Icons® Art Support Program for Patients       with Cancer. Cancer Practice. American Cancer Society.      July/August 1999 Darr-Hope, Heidi. For Those Who Have Passed Over:      A Ribbon of Prayer.      The SC Circular: The Friends of Jung Newsletter      September 1999