About Heather
Heather Williams is an artist and web wrangler. When she is not herding cats at her day job as a web manager, she enjoys painting, drawing, photographing, and making jewelry. Heather's art is inspired by observation of nature and society, resulting in a wide range of subject matter in her work. Heather's visual and written musings can be found throughout this site.
Education
Heather earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 1998 with a concentration in Drawing and Painting. After several years she returned to school in 2001 and graduated with an Associates degree in Applied Sciences with a concentration in Multimedia and Web Design from The Art Institute of Phoenix in 2002.
Working 9 - 5 (or is is it more like 5 - 9 in DC?)
While at AIPX, Heather interned with an eLearning company, SmartForce (acquired by SkillSoft), before graduating with honors.
After graduating from AIPX she spent the summer of 2002 as a Program Specialist for WiredWoods in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The program is taught in a summer camp setting for under-represented middle school aged children who elect to take the class as part of their activities. The goal is to inspire the kids to be creators, and not just consumers, of technology through digital photography, Web development and animation projects.
In the fall of 2002 Heather moved to the Washington DC area. As a Web project manager for the Military Officers Association of America she helped launch a major system upgrade and redesign for the Association's Web site.
In 2006 Heather joined Ocean Conservancy as their Web Content Manager. As the only Web staff she juggled design, production, planning, and development every day on the job.
In 2008 Heather moved on to The Pew Charitable Trusts as the Senior Web Associate for the Environment Group. Overseeing the Web presence for 20 environmental programs and campaigns, Heather hopes to bring her analytical and wrangling skills to the Trusts' latest endeavour. Part of her work will be to help build a divisonal Web site for the Environment Group.
Volunteerism
Since her arrival in Washington DC Heather has participated in activism and further youth volunteer activities. Representing WiredWoods in March of 2003 she taught a Digital Photography workshop at the Girls Get Connected technology conference sponsored by TechBoston. In 2004 she taught a workshop for an emerging youth arts initiative Panorama Community Arts and taught a Painting Collage class to students at Cesar Chavez high school in Washington DC. For the last two years Heather has participated in the annual Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup. Spend a day picking up trash along waterways and participate in the largest all volunteer marine debris cleanup in the world!
Art shows and such
In 2007 Heather participated in Artomatic and recently joined a womens art collective called One Big Table in February of 2008. One Big Table currently consists of me, Victoria Cunningham, Grace Harmon, and Alexandra Silverthorne. Me make jewelry, ceramics, photography, paint...darn we're just plain crafty! Look for more stuff to come from us in the future.
If you would like to discuss volunteer or exhibit opportunities with Heather, or have any other questions or comments, you may contact her directly.