Central School is happy to announce Visiting Artist Heather Hutchison will be in residency here for 10 days in June.

JUNE 3, 2022 - CITY PARK 3:00 PM - ART GATHERING IN APPRECIATION OF THE BISBEE SKY

Heather will lead a creative gathering at City Park – Bring sketch pads, art, instruments, objects, poems and any creative device or offering of and to the sky. Heather will lead a discussion and the appreciation of odes and artists!

ABOUT THE ARTIST

In 1969, when Heather was six years old, her family settled in Bisbee, where the bowl of a sky is deep and endless. Her family lived in the Copper Queen Hotel. Central School was the first school Heather attended in Bisbee. The sky is important to Heather’s work. She frequently references the atmosphere and the sky, which is constantly changing: dawn to dusk, dusk to dawn. The sky is a fundamental,universal image. The sky is overarching and links us all together. It is the most visibleexperience that all humans share. From Heather: “The cultural shift in the late 60's attracted many visionaries to Bisbee: visual artists, writers,, musicians and filmmakers converged and took refuge there. I feel fortunate to have hadinspiring relationships with many of these artists. As a very young person I had independence,and a studio space where I could mimic my older friends. It was then in Bisbee that I began myartistic practice. Bisbee’s particular quality of light and artistic community profoundly shaped my ideas about color, space, light, and artistic practice.”