The Department of Art at Bradley offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in studio art and art history. The department also coordinates cultural programs, exhibitions and lectures. Facilities are located in the Heuser Art Center and the Caterpillar Global Communications Center. Heuser Art Center is a 33,000 sq. ft. facility with fully-equipped studios for ceramics, painting, printmaking and photography and sculpture..

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Full Resume

Heather Brammeier

Education:  

 
2002    M.F.A. Painting, University of Pennsylvania
2000    B.F.A. Painting, Bradley University
    
Selected Solo Exhibitions:    


2008    Fluidity, Murray State University, Murray, KY


          In Between, Around, and Beyond, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY


2007    Art Saint Louis Off-Site Exhibition at Fleishman-Hillard, Saint Louis, MO


          Unbroken, Women’s Institute and Gallery, New Harmony, IN


          Untelling, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL


2006    Changing Breath, or How Things Fall Together, Anderson College, Anderson, SC


2005    Paintings and Collages, Verde Gallery, Champaign, IL


2004    Regrowth, Glen Vista Art Gallery, Kalamazoo Nature Center, MI


2000    Tangentials, Peoria Civic Center Theater, IL


1998    Paintings and Photographs, Hartmann Center Art Gallery, Peoria, IL
    


Awards and Honors:    


2007    Prairie Center of the Arts Residency, Peoria, IL
          Byrdcliffe Artist Colony Residency, Woodstock, NY
    
Selected Group Exhibitions:  

 
ongoing    Flat Files, Pierogi 2000 Gallery, NY


              Irving Sandler Artists File Online, Artists Space, NY

 

2008    Satellite City Transmissions, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL

          Annual Members’ Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL


          Re.Action, Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park and Arts Center, Solomon, MD


          4th Annual Fine Art Auction, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL


          It’s Gouache and Gouache Only, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NY curated by Geoffrey Young


          Satellite City Transmissions, Fine Line Gallery, St. Charles, IL


2007    8th Annual 5”x7” Exhibition, Woodstock Guild, Woodstock, NY


          Exchange Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO


          Satellite City Transmissions, Studio 222, Bloomington, IL


          Abstract and Geometric, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL


          22nd Biennial Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition Exhibition, Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst                 Arts Center, Mt. Vernon, IL


          Satellite City Transmissions, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL


          New Arts Program 18th Annual Exhibition of Small Works, Kutztown, PA


          3rd Annual Fine Art Auction, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL


2006    Between Art and Vision, Big Easy Café and Coffeehouse, Peoria, IL


          Layered, Stitched, Assembled, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO


          Bradley/Marshall Faculty Exchange Show, Marshall University, WV


2005    Peoria Art Guild Members Show, Foster Arts Center, Peoria, IL


          The Unicorn Exhibition, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL


2004    Bradley University Faculty Exhibition, Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL


          Interlochen Center for the Arts Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Interlochen, MI (each summer                      1998-2004)


2003    Living Room: Issues of Taste and the Politics of Decoration, Storefront 1838, NY curated by                  Nicholas Nyland

2002    M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Power Plant, Philadelphia, PA


          Folio 2002 Exhibition, Graduate Student Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


          No More Beginnings, two-person exhibition, Graduate Student Center, University of Pennsylvania,             Philadelphia, PA


          Fox Family Exhibition, Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


          Six Degrees in Cold Storage, CAA Special Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA


2001    Reinventing the Definition of Drawing, Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


          Graduate School of Fine Arts Award Winners Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
    
Publications:

Satellite City Transmissions, Art and Society Magazine, March/April 2008
‘Unbroken’ to be presented at Women’s Institute, Posey County News, IN, June 5, 2007
Waterworks, Evansville Courier & Press, IN, June 22, 2007
Plus Five: PennDesign 2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, full-color catalog with essays by Matt Freedman and Richard Torchia
The Twenty-Second Biennial Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition full-color catalog, 2007
    
Mural Projects:   

2008    OSF St. Francis Medical Center Mural Project, Peoria, IL
 
2007    South Side Mission Mural Project, Peoria, IL