Please join us to welcome Megan Heeres and her beautiful, ethereal, handmade paper artworks during Birmingham’s first ever Art Walk! Megan will be in the shop demonstrating the alchemy of paper making on Thursday, October 13 from 5-8pm. Come over to learn more about her work, and see both the process and the results. A selection of Megan’s finished papermaking work will be on display and available for purchase. We’ll have refreshments and special promotions in store.
The Birmingham Art Walk is a city-wide strolling event, showcasing artists hosted in shops around town.
Participating businesses include St. Croix Shop, Viga USA, Urban Wick Candle Bar, Fab'rik, Gazelle Sports, Rotate Boutique, Lux Travel Girl, DiMaggio Exquisite Jewelry & Fine Art, Hastens, West Elm, Anthropologie and Daxton Hotel.
Megan Heeres's current practice is rooted in paper-making where her passion for experimentation, fascination with entropy and chance, and her love of science all meet. She works with unwanted plant species and the trash found where these plants reside to create art objects, installations, collaborations, and experiential workshops. Megan's art and professional endeavors have connected into a cooperative way of working with community both inside and outside of the studio.
Megan participates in projects locally and nationally, most recently at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco and the Broad Art Lab at Michigan State University in East Lansing. She continually presents her work in numerous forms in group exhibitions, as a panelist and speaker at conferences, artist residencies and workshops all over the states and abroad. Megan is represented by Simone De Sousa Gallery in Detroit. She graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with a Master's of Fine Art in 2009 and from the Residential College at the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's of Art in 2002.
