Ariella Heise

CV

b. 2000, Ukiah, CA

Education

2022 Smith College, Northampton, MA

BA in Studio Art and Museum Studies

Performance

2025 The Worm of Them All, Crankie Performance, Shea Theater, Turner's Falls, MA

2025 Project Esther Vashti: A Diasporist Purim Spectacular, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY

2025 Lobster Party, Baltimore Crankie Festival, Baltimore, MA

2024 Bread and Puppet: The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, Theater for the New City, New York, NY

2024 Riot Puppet, We Wiggle Dolls at Rublad, Brooklyn, NY

2024 The Right to Shine, Puppet Show, Shea Theater, Turner's Falls, MA

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Gazing In, Roots Cafe, Brooklyn, NY

2022 This is me ripping my heart out and handing it to you, Nolan Art Lounge, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Group Exhibitions

2023 Microworks, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton MA

2023 Flat Files Program Exhibition, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton MA

2022 Group Exhibition at A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton MA

2022 Senior Exhibition at Smith College Janotta Gallery

2021 Senior Exhibition at Smith College Janotta Gallery

2021 Flat File Show, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton MA

2021 Solo Exhibition at Nolan Art Lounge

Publications

"SCMA Insider" Smith College Museum of Art Blog, written post in 2020, drawn comic in 2022

"Emulate" Smith College arts and poetry magazine, 2020

"Labrys" Smith College arts and literary magazine, 2019

Work Experience

July 2024 - Present, Administrative Assistant at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY

May 2024 Performance Apprentice at Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, VT

2022-2024 Gallery Assistant at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in Brooklyn, NY

2022 Co-curator for group exhibition "Wanna Come Over?" at A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA

2020-2022 Digital Communications Assistant for Smith College Museum of Art

2021 Studio Assistant for Anna Hepler, sculpture artist based in Greenfield, MA

2020 Curatorial Intern at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Editor of Intern Newsletter