Heather Corbitt has served as President and Secretary of the Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society as well as on the Board of Directors for the Community Arts Council of the Saanich Peninsula (ArtSea), launching the First Nations Invitational Art Shows and serving in supporting positions for the Sidney Fine Art Show. She currently serves as Secretary for the Sidney Museum and Archives as well as volunteering on the Collections Management Committee.
Her arts participation includes the following: Saanich Peninsula Arts & Crafts Society Judged Art Shows 2000 - 2024 Jurors’ Choice Awards; Sidney Fine Art Shows: Juried Participant Juror’s Choice Awards; Sooke Fine Art Shows Juried Participant; Fun with Fibre, Cloth and Wood Shows Participant 2014-present Port Townsend Wearable Art Show: Juried Participant 2017; West Coast Quilt and Fibre Art 2011 - Juried Participant; CNIB Eye Appeal Art Event 2009 & 2011 - Invited Artist American Iris Society 2011 National Convention - Boutique invited Artist; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria - Art Attire 2011 - Juried Participant; Quilters’ Guild of Victoria 25th Anniversary Journal - Juried Artist; Victoria Quilters’ Guild Judged Show Entry - “Best Wearable”; American Sewing Expo NOVI Juried Show 2005; Quilting Arts Magazine, Honourable Mention - “Thinking out of the Box” Wall Hanging; Pacific International Quilt Festival X & XIII Santa Clara California Juried Wearable Art Show & Sale - Juried Artist; Canadian Quilter’s Association 2005 National Juried Show - Juried Artist EXCLUSIVELY YOURS Fashion Shows & Sales (2003-2004) the University Club of Victoria; Sulky of America Wearable Art Challenge Traveling Trunk Show - “Sulky & Silk” Jacket.
Heather continues to create her individual art and support the Arts Community in her community.
My fabric art is an extension of my personality and allows me expression and creativity. Incorporating movement and texture is a natural extension of that for me. I love the feel and versatility of silk and prefer to work mostly with it. Painting silk habotai and cotton provides me with my own interpretation of shapes and colours. Using dupioni and hand dyed silk allows my work to come to life along with sheer overlays, embellishment and free hand machine quilting.
