Briget Heidmous has been a museum and gallery professional since 2012, with curatorial contributions to more than 45 exhibitions and contributed writing on grants, including that awarded from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Heidmous offers enrichment programming for all ages. In her career, she has mentored more than 50 college-age students through work-study and internship programs in curatorial strategy, art handling, gallery management, museum registration, exhibition design, program development, and grant writing.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
LEAD + COORDINATING CURATOR
That Sort of Thing. All the Time.
That Sort of Thing. All the Time. is an exhibition of findings from the Special Collections at Colorado College.
LIGHTNING SPEAK + A VERY LONG LINE
Lightning Speak by Raven Chacon featured multiple sound and video installations, field recordings and associated images, documentary footage of multiple performances, and community-centric performances of “Drum Grid”.
Project continuation at National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.
HABIT + RITUAL
Habit + Ritual explores the interwoven presence of habit and ritual in the conception and utilization of highly designed objects.
INTELLECTU(ALE) ADVENTURE: CRAFT BREWING + DESIGN
IntellectuALE Adventure: Craft Brewing + Design. Craft beer labels walk a minute line between packaging and fine art. Each label strives to encompass the ethos of a brewery and individual beer through contemporary design and exquisite visuals.
STAGED: CONSTRUCTED REALITIES, ALTERED WORLDS
Staged explores the ways in which photographers — like filmmakers or authors — create new worlds, construct different realities, or narrate alternative histories.
CHROMATICA
CHROMATICA examines color relationships and perception through contemporary glass. The exhibition features 18 sculptural works by contemporary glass artists Tom Kreager, George Dielman, Evan Seeling, and Jeremy Hansen.
CONTRIBUTING + INSTRUCTIONAL CURATOR
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center,
Colorado College
2017
Lightning Speak by Raven Chacon
A Very Long Line by Postcommodity
InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts Program,
Colorado College
2017
Amplify + Multiply: Recent Printed Activist Ephemera
Beyond Mammy, Jezebel + Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women
After Before
Billy Joel Conference Exhibition, Instructional Curator
2016
Incarceration Nation
Habit + Ritual
Corollary Acts
Resourced
IntellectuALE Adventure
Staged: Constructed Realities, Altered Worlds
Atomic Landscapes
Hydro-Logic
2015
American Falls by Phil Solomon
Rediscovering The Prairie
LO-FAB
CHROMATICA
Reorientations: Defining + Defying 19th Century French Images of the Arab World
Extending The Line, IDEA
Extending The Line, Coburn Gallery
Juggling Butterflies by Emma Powell
2014
Rembrandt: Beyond The Brush
Sin + Salvation Reconsidered: Frances Carlson + Lisa Easton
Transmission/Frequency: Tesla and His Legacy
Mandala of Enlightenment
Rhythm Nations: Transnational Hip-Hop In The Gallery, In The Street, and On The Stage
Devotional Cultures
‘Hōl
2013
Tension + Transformation
Systems + Subversions
Any thing that is strang
Voices From Japan: Perspective on Disaster and Hope
Robert Adams: A Place Apart
Basim Magdy: Hot to Build an Invisible Monument
American Qur’an: Works by Sandown Birk
Galleries of Contemporary Art,
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
2012
Rain Machine by Eric Tillinghaust
BRIGET HAS WORKED WITH
ARTISTS
Dove Bradshaw
Erin Elder
Raven Chacon
Aaron Cohick
Haru Gi
Susan Hefuna
Basim Magdy
Dwayne Manuel
Senga Nengudi
Nina Elder
Matthew Ostrowski
Phil Solomon
Graham Wakefield
PERFORMERS
Dawn Avery
Idris Goodwin
Maz Jobrani
Miranda July
Omar Offendum
Postcommodity
INSTITUTIONS
Culture House, DC
Denver Art Museum
Drawing Center, The
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, The
Mass Design Group