United States, 1975
Heather McNabb was raised in Nome, Alaska. After moving to and living in Fairbanks for a few years, she decided she had enough of -45 degree winters and angry moose, so down south she went. She’s currently living in Grand Junction, Colorado and is working toward her B.F.A in Studio Arts with her emphasis in sculpture at Colorado Mesa University. She quickly discovered that metal casting was a passion for her. The heat, the flowing metal, the fire drew her in like a moth to a flame. Every opportunity for involvement with metal pouring, she was there and eventually became part of the crew running the cupola. With her casting team, Heather attended the 2025 SLOSS Furnaces National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices. While there, she and her team participated in the Student Cupola contest, where they competed against 10 other universities from the mid-west and eastern states. They succeeded in winning first place in both the production and flow tests.
While attending the university, Heather ventures into the Rocky Mountains in the summer to study stone carving at the Marble, Colorado marble symposium. She has exhibited her work in student art shows, most recently her Senior Exhibition art show “Humanity Creating Reality”. She has had artwork on the cover of the CMU Literary Review magazine, and earned a spot in the Grand Junction, Colorado annual Art on the Corner program. Her larger-than-life sculpture of a feather quill pen will be on public display for a year (2025-26).