Heather Bentz

Heather Bentz is a contemporary artist based in Tucson, Arizona. During her career she served as assistant dean of the College of Arts and Architecture at Montana State University and College of Visual and Performing Arts at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, taught courses on process, painting and drawing, and worked for World Wildlife Fund and the National Museum for Women in the Arts in major donor development. She has been an invited speaker at Site Santa Fe, was a Ucross fellow in 2017 and received her first public art grant in 2022. Bentz has exhibited nationally and has work in private and corporate collections around the world. She received her MFA in painting from Montana State University and BFA in printmaking from Pennsylvania State University.