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Abigail Heuss serves as Interim Head of the Department of Art & Design and Professor of Art | Jewelry & Metalsmithing at VSU. Before coming to VSU, she served as adjunct faculty at Pitt County Community College in Greenville NC, and Boise State University in Boise ID.  She holds an M.F.A. from East Carolina University and a B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Between her degrees Abigail worked as a jeweler, and completed a year long residency at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Worcester MA. She has taught workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Gatlinburg TN, Snow Farm Craft Program in Williamsburg MA, and the Worcester Center for Crafts.  

Abigail’s work has been shown in over 100 solo, juried, and group exhibitions around the country, including the traveling Alchemy show hosted by the Enamelist Society, If Memory Serves, a solo exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in GA, Craft/Work at Beauty and Brawn Gallery in Chicago, and The Art of Remembering, a solo show at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center in Rocky Mount NC.  Her work has also been published in several books and magazines, both nationally and abroad. 

Invitational Workshops

2025               
Workshop Instructor: Painting with Glass, and Introduction to Enameling
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC
2024               
Workshop Instructor: Narratives in Metal (co-taught with Ashley Gilreath)
John C.Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC
Instructor: Lecacy Week Metals Workshop
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
2023               
Instructor: Lecacy Week Metals Workshop
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN

Exhibitions

2025   

• Contemporary Studio Jewelry in Georgia, GA Southern Center for Art and Theatre University Gallery, Statesboro GA

2024   

• Handcrafted Maria V Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount NC (Honorable Mention)
• Educatorsas Artists: College Faculty Art Exhibition Albany Museum of Art, Albany GA

2023   

• Works of Metal (2 person show) Vereen Gallery, Colquitt County Arts Center, Moultrie GA
• Shared Past, Divergent Futures Emerge Gallery, Greenville NC
• Arrivals 2023- Ebendorf & the Usual Suspects Form & Concept Gallery, Santa Fe NM
• Big Softies Brockway Center for Arts and Technology, Brockway PA
• Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
• Educatorsas Artists: College Faculty Art Exhibition Albany Museum of Art, Albany GA