​Heather Hilton Carving

Heather Hilton was born in Albany, New York in 1945. She received her MFA in sculpture in 1970 from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1971 she came to Atlanta to teach sculpture at Spelman College. After 12 years of teaching, she left to focus on her sculpture.

 

Heather has received a number of awards for her sculpture including purchase awards at The LaGrange National Show in Georgia, the Del Mar College National Drawing and Sculpture Show in Texas, and at the Fine Arts Museum of the South Juried Exhibition in Alabama. She also received The Warner Communications Award given by the National Sculpture Society. Heather's sculpture has been in many juried national, regional, and state art exhibitions as well as numerous Atlanta shows, and is in collections around the country.