Anne Heide they/them/theirs

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

• Phone: 309-794-7490
• Email: anneheide@augustana.edu
• Office: Art Studios 7

Website: www.annexavierheide.com

I teach courses on weaving, sculpture, fabric design, and contemporary artistic practice.

I make artwork that considers the environmental and social impacts of contemporary clothing overconsumption as well as gender and class norms that clothing embodies. I research and use craft practices that historically repurposed and repaired worn-out clothing alongside contemporary digital weaving and garment construction techniques. These practices include quilting, rag rug weaving, hand papermaking, and mending. Through combining these contemporary and historical practices, I produce fluid alternatives to the rigid constraints of contemporary clothing consumption that center reuse and gender diversity.

Projects include exhibitions with Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Handweavers Guild of America (Convergence 2024 in Wichita, KS), Surface Design Association (Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, OH). I also facilitate public events and workshops including 2022 mending workshops in collaboration with the Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS).

I grew up on the south side of Chicago and completed my MFA in Fiber/Textiles at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS in 2024. Before starting graduate school, I lived in Iowa City, IA where I completed a graduate certificate concentrated in hand papermaking at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and worked odd jobs including being a youth bicycle educator and croissant baker.

Specializations: Art, Textile history, Contemporary art, Weaving, Queer Studies, Gender and feminist theory, Environmental studies