Heather Peterson

Heather Scott Peterson is an artist, designer, essayist, curator, and educator, and a 2026 Rome Prize Fellow. Her work explores the idioms of matter and its various behaviors as the substances that compose the world. She received a BFA in painting and art history from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in creative writing from Brown University and holds a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. She is a Professor of Architecture and Design at the University of Redlands in Los Angeles.