Lu Heintz
Lu Heintz is an artist, educator, mother and feminist collaborator based in Providence, RI. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Additional education includes studies at Penland School of Crafts (NC), Haystack Mountain School (ME), Ox-Bow School of Art (MI), and CE.CA.TI (Michoacán, Mexico). She has been awarded residencies at MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center and Arts, Letters & Numbers (NY), and has received awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, International Sculpture Center and Sustainable Arts Foundation. She balances her artistic endeavors with a commitment to feminist pedagogy and scholarship. She teaches in the Division of Experimental and Foundation Studies at RISD and is actively engaged in many community-based organizations. Social practices include collaboratively edited, independently published magazines; gardening and food preservation; mutual aid; non-institutional educational outreach such as workshops and mentoring; feminist Wikipedia editing and intersectional feminist reading groups. Her work has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including: the RISD Museum, Metal Museum, R.K. Projects, The Wedding Cake House and Strano Film Fest. She is a member of WARP, a textile-based studio collective in located in Atlantic Mills, Providence.
