Heather Everhart is an artist and administrator with 10+ years of experience working with award-winning artists, museums, and non-profits. Everhart has been studio assistant to Minneapolis-based conceptual artist Harriet Bart since 2008. She joined the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2014 and is the Curatorial Department Assistant in Paintings, working cross-departmentally on exhibitions and initiatives that engage in a social discourse of active listening with the community and forward momentum within the field. Projects she has worked on have received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Greyhound Association/American Greyhound Council, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Everhart has a BA in Fine Art and MA in Arts Administration; her thesis examined the impact of street art and graffiti culture on contemporary arts organizations. Current areas of study include feminist artists of the Midwest, abstraction and women artists of the 20th century, contemporary Indigenous art and fashion of the Midwest and Canada, and the history and artwork of Dené First Nations. She is a contributing writer to the catalog for the landmark exhibition, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in summer 2019. In February 2020, the Weisman Art Museum will present a retrospective exhibition, Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection, for which Everhart is Curatorial Assistant and writer of the publication’s chronology covering the artist’s forty year career.