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Heather Stivison is an award-winning visual artist whose work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries across the United States and in juried shows in Europe and Asia. She is committed to exploring the intersection of environmental science and visual art in her immersive paintings of the ocean. Stivison is known for her interpretations of ocean science research in collaboration with a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and has recently lectured on that topic at the University of Connecticut. She currently serves as the president of South Coast Artists, Inc. She is an elected Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and serves on the Board of NAWA’s Massachusetts Chapter. Stivison is a former museum director, former president of both the New Jersey Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. She is represented at Pleiades Gallery in New York City and creates her work in Hatch Street Studios, New Bedford, MA.