Heather Steckler

Heather Steckler
b. 1997, New Jersey
Currently Living and working in Iowa City, IA

EDUCATION

Expected 2026 MA/MFA in Printmaking, University of Iowa
Expected 2026 Graduate Certificate in Book Arts, University of Iowa Center for the Book
2019 BFA in Painting and Drawing, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

EXPERIENCE

2025     Instructor of Record; Introduction to Printmaking, University of Iowa
2025     Studio Assistant; Terry Conrad
2024     Instructor of Record; Printmaking and the Politics of Protest, University of Iowa
2024     Iowa Print Group Graduate President, University of Iowa
2022-2023     Event Coordinator, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
2021-2023     Admissions Counselor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2021-2022     Board Member, The Soapbox Community Printshop and Zine Library, Philadelphia, PA
2019-2020     Private Art Tutor, Tokyo, Japan
2018     Assistant Artist, Intern, Mural Arts Philadelphia

HONORS & AWARDS

2024-2025     Virginia A. Myers Scholarship, University of Iowa
2023-2024     Iowa Arts Fellowship, University of Iowa
2024     Iowa Foil Print & Frogman’s Scholarship, University of Iowa
2022     Illuminate the Arts Grant, Philadelphia, PA
2019     The Richard Cramer Color Award in Painting, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
2015-2019     President’s Scholarship, Temple University

RESIDENCIES

2023     Studio Kura Artist Residency, Itoshima, Japan
2022     Fob Holder Residency Program, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA

WORKSHOPS

2024
Hold On/Let Go: Collage Social, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
Hold On/Let Go: Cyanotypes, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA

2023
Collage Social (monthly event), Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA

2022
Drypoint Etching with Recycled Materials, Second State Press, Philadelphia PA

2021
Social Media for Artists (Virtual), The Soapbox Community Printshop and Zine Library, Philadelphia, PA
Papermaking at Home (Virtual, The Soapbox Community Printshop and Zine Library, Philadelphia, PA

2020
Drypoint Etching with Recycled Materials (virtual), The Soapbox
Mapping the Everyday: Creative Collage Workshop, OPED Space Tokyo

LECTURES & RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

2024
Demonstration, Cyanotype Printing on Kozo and other Delicate Handmade Papers, NAHP 2024, Denver, CO
Artist Panel, Tender Sight: Recycled Image Making and Collage, Panel Discussion organized by Dustin Brinkman, MAPC 2024, Manhattan, KS
Demonstration Assistant to Al-Qawi Nanavati, Everything is Ink: Screen Printing with Organic Elements, MAPC 2024, Manhattan KS
Artist Panel, Student Lightening Talks, organized by Gaby Hurtado-Ramos and Eliza Frensley, SGCI 2024, Providence, RI

2023
Presentation, UIOWA Print Pop-up; New York Print Week, David Krut Projects, New York City, NY.
Presentation, Spotlight on Iowa; New York Print Week, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York City, NY.
Artist Lecture, Art Career Workshop Course, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA

2020
Artist Lecture, Book Structures Course, Temple University Rome

SOLO & 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024
Hold On/Let Go (2-person collaborative exhibition with Harper Folsom), Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
Self Preservation, Lasansky Atrium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

2023
Left in the Sun, Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan

2019
Taking up Space, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025  
(Upcoming) Interwoven Aspects: Innovation and Tradition in Paper Art, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

2024
Re-registered, Iowa Print Group Exhibition, Ana Mendieta Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
PULP, The Art Center at Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
LOVE PINK, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA

2023
Cyanotypes, Badprintmag online exhibition
Pulp!, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Insider Art IX, Anne Bryan Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2022
Everyone Must Leave, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
New Adjusted and Transformed, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Insider Art VIII, Works on Paper Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Fresh Pressed, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA

2020
Space 2020, Virtual Exhibition @spaceexhibition.2020

2019
Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show, Philadelphia, PA
Phase Change, Anne Bryan Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selections: Composition, Content, Form, Aramark Partners Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Bond of Knowing, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Hold On/Let Go Teaches the Value of Personal Effects”, Hannah Childers, Daily Iowan, November 3, 2024.


EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS
“Collaging Identity”, organized by Dave DiMarchi and Brett Taylor, 2025 SGCI Printmaking conference, Puerto Rico
“Lunch Club: The Leftovers Portfolio Exchange”, organized by Olivia Fredricks, Amira Pualwan, Ally Kotarsky, 2024 MAPC Conference, Manhattan, KS
“Dollar Tree”, organized by Margot Stroop and Claire White, 2024 SGCI Printmaking Conference, Providence, RI


ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
2024 Shaped Steel Plate Intaglio, Terry Conrad, Frogman’s Print Workshops
2024 Book and Box of Curiosities, Rhiannon Alpers, Frogman’s Print Workshops
2019-2020 KAI Japanese Language School, Intermediate Japanese Language Certificate
2018 Temple University Rome Campus
2017 Temple University Japan Campus
2014 Pre-College Studio Residency Program, Maryland Institute College of Art