Step inside the Heath Collective during SF Art Week!
The Heath Collective, a tight knit group of artists and artisans located within Heath Ceramics’ San Francisco building, will open the doors to Windy Chien’s and Tung Chiang’s individual, private studios. Windy and Tung will give in-person guided tours of the artists’ fiber and clay studios respectively—their processes, materials, and inspirations. Available works and works-in-progress will be on view. Visitors will walk away with rare and special insight into the inner workings of two thriving artistic practices and the inspirational studio spaces that house them.
SF Art Week, which will take place from January 18–26, 2025, seeks to celebrate the rich arts landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area and foster new, and strengthen existing connections between art lovers and collectors, galleries, museums, organizations, and artists.
The Heath Collective, a tight knit group of artists and artisans located within Heath Ceramics’ San Francisco building, will open the doors to Windy Chien’s and Tung Chiang’s individual, private studios. Windy and Tung will give in-person guided tours of the artists’ fiber and clay studios respectively—their processes, materials, and inspirations. Available works and works-in-progress will be on view. Visitors will walk away with rare and special insight into the inner workings of two thriving artistic practices and the inspirational studio spaces that house them.
SF Art Week, which will take place from January 18–26, 2025, seeks to celebrate the rich arts landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area and foster new, and strengthen existing connections between art lovers and collectors, galleries, museums, organizations, and artists.
Hours during SF Art Week
Open Hours:
Wednesday, January 22 — Friday, January 24 | By appointment only
Saturday, January 25 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, January 26 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Upon arrival, please enter through the Heath Ceramics Showroom (2900 18th St.)
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Wednesday, January 22 — Friday, January 24 | By appointment only
Saturday, January 25 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, January 26 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Upon arrival, please enter through the Heath Ceramics Showroom (2900 18th St.)
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About Windy and Tung
Artist Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Following long careers at Apple and as the owner of legendary music shop Aquarius Records, she launched her studio in 2015. Select clients include the National Geographic Society, the De Young Museum, the San Francisco MOMA, Nobu Hotels, Google, and the Kering Group, and her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times, and Martha Stewart. Windy’s book about her work was published by Abrams in 2019.
Tung Chiang is the Clay Studio Director at Heath Ceramics. His superpower is distillation: taking the most essential elements of an idea and using his hands to bring it to life in clay. In a career spanning graphic design and advertising in Hong Kong, furniture design at Art Center in Pasadena, and industrial design in San Francisco, Tung’s craft has evolved from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, merging thinking, designing, and making. He also leads the Clay Studio, a small team of makers who create small-batch, one-of-a-kind, and special production pieces that expand Heath’s creative point of view.
Tung Chiang is the Clay Studio Director at Heath Ceramics. His superpower is distillation: taking the most essential elements of an idea and using his hands to bring it to life in clay. In a career spanning graphic design and advertising in Hong Kong, furniture design at Art Center in Pasadena, and industrial design in San Francisco, Tung’s craft has evolved from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, merging thinking, designing, and making. He also leads the Clay Studio, a small team of makers who create small-batch, one-of-a-kind, and special production pieces that expand Heath’s creative point of view.
