Faculty & Staff

Caren Heft

Senior Lecturer & Director of Edna Carlsten Gallery

NFAC 259
715-346-4797
cheft@uwsp.edu

Education

B.F.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M.F.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

About

Caren Heft is the Director of the Edna Carlsten Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Prior to that, she was the Associate Curator of the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. Heft makes letterpress books and has work in the following collections: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; New York Public Library; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California; The Boston Museum of Fine Art, Massachusetts; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; La Bibliotecca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Good Street Baptist Church, Dallas, among others.

At the Wustum Museum, in additional to her curatorial duties, Heft was responsible for the Victory in Peace Project, in which inner city children produced letterpress books. Those books are in university collections across the country (from Berkeley to Brown University).

Visit Caren's website Arcadian Press.