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Heather Ujiie, born in Greenwich Village, New York City holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Visual Art from the State University of New Paltz, NY, an Art Education Degree K-12, from Brooklyn College, and an Associates Degree in Textile Surface Design, from The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. She teaches across Fine Arts, Fashion, Interior and Textile Design. She is both an artist and a designer and her textile installation work utilizes large-scale allegorical narratives that integrate analog and digital craft and technology. As a designer and an artist, her work suggests a fusion between clean elegant design, and the raw underpinnings of creative expression. She is interested in the dichotomies within the human condition, which are characterized by growth, beauty, loss and decay. Many of her pieces suggest questions pertaining to our gender identity, mortality and sexuality.