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Meet New Art Instructor Heidi Kartman

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A Community-Centered Craft

Heidi’s expertise spans a wide range of visual art practices, with particular emphasis on drawing, painting, calligraphy, and decorative design. Venturing beyond the confines of the traditional canvas, she has extensive experience in murals and faux wall painting, creating large-scale visual pieces that enhance both community and worship environments.

These experiences—from custom business signage to original apparel artwork—“have strengthened my ability to translate client ideas into meaningful visual expressions,” Heidi says. Her portfolio reflects a career dedicated to art as a form of service.

Spiritual & Family Life

Heidi did not grow up in a Christian home or profess faith in Christ until after marriage. She and her husband, Ken, were nominal attendees of a mainline denomination church. Yet, God was stirring within them a desire for a Bible-believing church and orchestrating an encounter with a local pastor, an encounter that changed the trajectory of their lives.

Today Heidi and Ken serve faithfully in their local church in every capacity from children’s ministry to artistic decorating. In the margins beyond work, she also enjoys gardening, hiking, studying nutrition, and spending time with family and her golden retriever, Milly.

Path to the Classroom

Demure and soft-spoken, Heidi has served as a data specialist in the Student Life Office for the past three years. However, this year she began pondering a return to more creative work. When her son, Kenny, suggested the possibility of teaching at ����ԭ��, Heidi recognized it as the Lord’s leading. “I realized that this is what God has been preparing me for over the last 30 years,” she reflects.

Humanities Chair Angela Morris says, “We are thrilled to add Heidi as a teacher for our art courses. Heidi’s passion for excellence, her love for our students, and her knowledge of art will combine to create an excellent classroom experience which will greatly benefit our university.”

This fall, Heidi’s inaugural course will be Introduction to Visual Art, an exploration of how to see and think visually and how art communicates meaning.

For more information on the Department of Humanities’ NEW art concentration, click here!