ABOUT


Chelsea Heffner is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer and teacher residing in Portland, OR. Her work is an experimentation in hybridity, combining the disciplines of art, design and craft to create works that exist between fine art and commercial product.

She has studied at the Hodgeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht, Netherlands and received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI (2005) and her MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland OR (2009).

In addition to teaching in the Foundation and Painting Departments at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Heffner is working in the field of textile design, marketing and branding her work under the label plainMADE. Her work can be found in stores across the country, and online at: