Heather
Ujiie

Heather Ujiie grew up in downtown N.Y.C.’s Greenwich Village, with a family of artists and educators, and her creativity comes from a lively bohemian childhood. She currently lives in Bucks County, PA and serves as Interdisciplinary Assistant professor, teaching across disciplines in art & design at Moore College of Art & Design. She is both an artist and a designer, and her professional design experience includes designing for dance, theatre, and textiles in New York City.  Her current focus is on creating large-scale innovative digital inkjet printed textile installations. Her work has been exhibited in The Hunterdon Museum of Art, The Racine Art Museum, and at the prestigious Wind Challenge Award Exhibition at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial Museum. She also currently shows her surface textile work at Flavor paper in New York, a high-end unique wall-covering company for modern interiors. Her work has also been included in exhibitions in the Cleveland Museum of Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and The Philadelphia International Airport. Heather Ujiie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Visual Art from the State University of New Paltz, NY, an Art-Education K-12 Degree from Brooklyn College, and an Associates Degree in Textile Surface Design, from The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has over 15 years of experience as a textile designer, designing printed textiles for the high-end home furnishing market including Schumacher, Polo/Ralph Lauren, Stroheim & Romann, Kravet and Waverly in New York City. Her commercial printed textile designs have had numerous clients including Flavor Paper, and The White House private residences for President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, Washington D.C.