Heather Muise is a Canadian artist living and working in Greenville North Carolina. She earned a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor, Canada and an MFA concentrating in printmaking at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She taught printmaking in the United Arab Emirates for seven years and seeks to use art as a way to foster communication and collaboration between cultures. She now teaches printmaking at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Her creative work takes many physical forms: print, sculpture, and fiber.  It often includes a heavy dose of black humor, irony, imaginary religious symbolism or is viewed through a pseudo-scientific lens.

The role transformation and change plays in the universe whether it is purely accidental as in the case of mutation driven by environmental responses, caused by mistranslation of information, or driven by a more imaginative and alchemical impulse, compels her work.

The work draws from many sources: dreams, fables, alchemical texts and woodcuts, Russian prison tattoos, tarot cards,  and other arcane symbols. She uses esoteric, codified and symbolic imagery that conjures up the ideas of magic, divination and possibilities that may or may not exist in our world, as a way to suggest to the viewer, rather than to narrate.