Meg Heeres - Visual Artist

Megan Heeres’s art practice and professional endeavors have connected into a cooperative way of working with community both inside and outside of the studio. These collaborations engage with place, people, art and plants. She participates in projects locally in Detroit and nationally, most recently at the Broad Art Lab at Michigan State University and the Herron School of Art at Indiana University.

For the 2022 Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival she created the piece

How we find the river’s edge using artist-made cotton, lily and abaca paper, thread, found plants and woven strips of the musical score of Birding by Ear by Perry Goldstein.

“With this work, I want the viewer to feel a sense of sound rooted within the quiet. Taking inspiration from the composers featured in the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, I created a piece that is about the different forms and spaces where music is encountered. As I collected plants for this work along the Detroit River in the stillness of winter, music was ever present in the water, plants, animals, machines and daily life of people.”