UP Focus Exhibition: Linda King Ferguson & Lindsey Heiden Reception
The UP Focus is an ongoing exhibition series that highlights professional artists who are from, living in, or heavily
influenced by the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
While Linda King Ferguson trained as a textile surface designer, she maintains a
practice as a painter with studios in Au Train, MI, and Nashville, TN. She earned a MA
from Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and
studied at Penland School of Crafts and Academia Di Belle Arti in Perugia, Italy.
Ferguson’s recent solo exhibitions include Channel to Channel and Lipscomb
University. Ferguson was awarded residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and Morris
Graves Foundation.
Lindsey Heiden is an artist and educator residing in Dollar Bay, MI. She earned a BFA
from Western Illinois University in 2007 and an MFA from University of Arkansas in
2018. Currently, Heiden teaches at Finlandia University and Michigan Technological
University. She has shown work nationally and internationally and has been a resident
artist at various studios, including the Archie Bray Foundation, in Helena, MT. When
she is not in the studio, she is in the garden or the woods.