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WHAT WE DO
We are a creative design studio that makes buildings, public space, places, and art. Art, architecture, sensory experiences, and public engagement are our medium.
We aim to catalyze the built environment – to elevate shelter, landscape and transportation – to self-sufficiency, supporting people and the environment. We strive to design and develop places that power themselves, cleanse themselves, transform waste, provide wildlife habitat, produce food, enhance the lives of people, and support social justice.
Although some of our projects are whimsical, the technical side of our work is founded in sound building principles, such as Passive House, and an understanding of ecology and how to achieve deep energy and water savings and regenerative principles in buildings and landscapes.
Our projects can be exploratory and range from the fantastical to the 100% practical. Biome Studio has a diverse portfolio of projects including 1) very practical energy efficiency and renewable energy projects on large multifamily affordable housing; 2) bold cutting-edge projects such as deep energy retrofits and regenerative communities; and 3) interactive, sculptural, and installation-scale art work.
OUR CLIENTS
We seek creative projects that combine art, placemaking, ecology, and transforming spaces for social and ecological good. We work with cities, building owners, developers, curators, and art institutions. We love collaborating with other artists, designers, performers, and musicians.
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OUR SERVICES
We design and construct creative projects in our design studio, workshop and on-site.
Our services range from creative design and fabrication to comprehensive project oversight and project management to achieve ambitious regenerative goals. We also facilitate design team and community workshops and offer speaking engagements.
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VISUAL ART
For a complete catalog of visual art by Heather Theresa Clark, Biome Studio’s founder, check out www.heather-clark.com
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OUR PEOPLE
Biome Studio coordinates diverse teams of artists, engineers, architects, building scientists, inventors, real estate developers, builders, and ecologists. Biome Studio was founded by visual artist Heather Theresa Clark who comes from a background immersed in art, making, and managing large-scale projects that benefit people and the environment. She interweaves her passion for art, building science, making, ecology, social justice, green development and planning to create projects that challenge present reality and attempt to make life more fulfilling.
As founder of Biome Studio, Clark’s projects range from the practical to the whimsical, with all efforts rooted in sound building principles, such as Passive House, and an understanding of ecology. Clark has overseen what was the largest deep energy retrofit in the U.S.; installed over one megawatt of solar on 2,300 affordable apartments; and created a green development and property management program for 90,000 units of affordable housing on behalf of one of the largest affordable housing developers in the US. Appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts, Clark has served as ‘Energy Efficiency Expert’ on the Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council that oversaw Massachusetts utility energy efficiency programs and she has also served on the Massachusetts Zero Energy Task Force.
Clark is a visual artist. She has transformed a burned building shell into an open-air theater with a living sculpture; co-created the Busycle, a 15 person-pedal powered bus; and shown her artwork internationally. Clark is currently a Hamiltonian Fellow in Washington DC. She was the 2017 artist-in-residence at the Woods Hole Research Center, a leading climate change think tank. She was the 2016 recipient of the Virginia Commission for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship Award.
Clark is also an environmental activist. She founded the Play-In for Climate Action, a family-oriented climate change protest held annually at the US Capitol by Moms Clean Air Force, a special project of the Environmental Defense Fund.
Clark holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, summa cum laude, in Environmental Science and Community Planning, a self-designed major.
RECENT PRESS
2018
Washington Post, In the Galleries, Mark Jenkins, 5/6/2018
feeldesain, Artist’s Sculpture On Home-Making In The Age Of Climate Change, 5/9/2018, Italy
World-Architects Japan, Artist Abstracts Domestic Space and Puts It In Tension in Kinetic Sculpture, May 2018, Japan
THE RIB, Along A Line, Heather Theresa Clark, May 2018
2017
Sculpture Magazine, Washington, DC: Heather Theresa Clark – Hillyer Art Space, Laura Roulet, June 2017
Washington Post, In historic Frederick, Md., a 1700s-era building is reborn as a ‘dreamy’ open-air arts venue, Mark Jenkins, 5/11/17
Public Art Review, Projects We Love, Sky Stage, Issue 56, Spring/Summer 2017
Washington Post, In the Galleries, Mark Jenkins, 1/19/17
World-Architects, The American Dream Unpacked, 1/24/17
Creative Boom, Maintenance: Artist Heather Theresa Clark literally unpacks the American Dream, 1/26/17
CODAMAGAZINE, Architectural Art, Sky Stage, Spring 2017
ARTSAKE, Heather Clark: Climate Change Barge Project, Mass Cultural Council, 11/28/17
The Falmouth Enterprise (Cover Story), Performance Art Over Water Will Explore Climate Change, Andrea Carter, 9/1/17
WBUR, THE ARTery, 5 Things To Do This Weekend, From Dangling Dancers To A Carnival Parade, Amelia Mason, 9/6/17
DOMUS, Per l’artista H.T. Clark, gli uomini sono tutti impotenti (di fronte alla crisi ambientale), 11/22/17
2016
Design Boom, ‘sky stage’ is a public artwork + theater built in the shell of a burned building, 10/21/16
Inhabitat, Twisting ribbons of plants transform a badly burned Maryland building into an interactive public artwork, Lucy Wang, 10/20/16
Sass Magazine (Cover Story), Women to Watch, Chrissie Moore, Winter 2016
Frederick Magazine (Cover Story), All the Community’s a Stage, Live Theater Brings Entertaining Performances and Other Benefits to Local Audiences, Gina Gallucci-White, 11/1/16
American-Architects, Building of the Week, Sky Stage, 11/7/16, USA, Switzerland
World-Architects, Sky Stage, 10/24/16, Switzerland
Dwell.com, A fire nearly destroyed this pre-Revolutionary War building in Maryland. Then this happened:, 10/25/16
Home & Design Trends Magazine, Transformative art that alters perceptions & neighbourhoods, Vol 4 No 8 2017, January 2017 edition, India
The Daily Gazette, What happens when lights stop breathing?, Sara Foss, 11/16/16, Schenectady, NY
CREATIVE BOOM, Sky Stage: Artist transforms burned building into living art and a temporary theatre, 11/3/16, UK
The Italian Community of Engineers, How to reuse former factories in degradation: the outdoor theater Sky Stage, 12/8/16, Italy
Noble ID, Sky Stage, 11/16, Thailand
KOT SIFIR, Sky Stage, 10/26/16, Turkey
Energy Fresh, Sky Stage breathed “green” living in dilapidated historic building, 10/21/16, Russia
Refresh the Triangle, ‘sky stage’ is a public artwork + theater built in the shell of a burned building, 10/21/16
The Commuter, From the Ashes Rises a Phoenix, Ann Culey, 11/11/16
USA Art News, Sky Stage, 10/28/16
Architecture Design, ‘sky stage’ is a public artwork + theater built in the shell of a burned building, 10/21/16
A Green Living, Twisting ribbons of plants transform a badly burned Maryland building into an interactive public artwork, 10/20/16
Frederick News Post, Sky Stage: Temporary art venue opens in Frederick, 9/22/16
WHAG TV, Preview of Sky Stage, an open-air theater in downtown Frederick, 9/16/16
Frederick News Post, Sky Stage grand opening: Be part of history, 9/12/16
Preservation Maryland, Project Spotlight: Sky Stage Art Installation in Frederick, 8/11/2016
Frederick News Post, Artist repurposes downtown Frederick building as Sky Stage public art, theater project, 8/7/16
Frederick News Post, Five Questions with Heather Clark, Sky Stage artist, 8/7/16
Frederick News Post, Open air theater, sculpture proposed for Frederick building that burned in 2010, 5/10/16
AWARDS
Hamiltonian Fellowship, Washington DC, 2017-2019
Invoking the Pause Grant for Climate Change Trailblazers, 2018
National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant, Sky Stage, 2017
Americans for the Arts: Year in Review Public Art Award Jurors: Alison Saar, Kevin B. Chen, and Sherri Brueggemann, 2017
Community Leadership Award for Historic Preservation from City of Frederick, MD, 2017
Virginia Commission for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship Award, 2016
Burning Man Global Arts Grant, 2016
Nora Roberts Foundation Award, 2016
Home Depot Foundation Award, 2016
Ausherman Foundation Award, 2016
Delaplaine Foundation Award, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comparative Media Studies, The 10th Annual CMS Media Spectacle, Honorable Mention/Best Documentary, 2008
Americans for the Arts: Year in Review Public Art Award Jurors: Miwon Kwon and Larry Kirkland Honor, 2007
Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Award for Landscape Art, Boston, MA, 2007
Council for the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grant, Cambridge, MA, 2007
Grant for Community-Building, Interactive Art Projects, Black Rocks Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Council for the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Grant, Cambridge, MA, 2006