Photographer/artist Heather Protz (BFA ‘89, MFA ‘91) is a Professor of Photography at the College of Southern
Nevada. Joining the department in January 2004, she has led the digital revolution in the Commercial Photography Program teaching Digital Photographic imaging I, II, III, Vision Quest and Big Digital and The Las Vegas Document. In addition to teaching, she co-directors The Image Gallery, which specializes in the visual experience of still photography, moving images and experimental imagery.

Heather comes from Ohio. Her photographic background began with silver gelatin printing. From there Xerox and Polaroid became a passion on the way to the digital frontiers of today. She believes in the strong tradition of technique. Yet great photographs speak -- they speak to the viewer, and this is what drives her to create work.

“Everyday I explore the world, my world, looking for or making an image. This exploration drives me. I’m always exploring, shooting, creating something. My interests define my work: television, popular culture, modernism, architecture -- these are places I start when defining my photographic explorations.”

Heather received a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship for 2009 and a Ohio Arts Council individual artist grant in 2001. Heather has exhibited across the country in numerous group and one person shows, Her upcoming and most recent Shows, The Foundry Art Centre, Group 4 Award Photography 2, St Charles, Missouri •2-person exhibition (AMP-Alterwitz-Mizrahi and Protz) Sahara West Library, Las Vegas, Nevada, •Springs Preserve, ORIGINS Big Springs Gallery, AMP, Las Vegas, Nevada •Marji Gallery, Inspired, Santa Fe, New Mexico •Brett Wesley Gallery, NeonPin, Las Vegas, Nevada •eXhibition Series (OXS), The Nevada Arts Council, Carson City, Nevada •2009 PIEA International Photo Contest, International Traveling Show, 3rd Place Faculty Portfolio

Heather is Represented by Marji Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada.