Julia Heyward

Heyward's work centers around the orchestration of music, image, and language in the forms of multimedia, performance and new media. Heyward's "No Local Stops" won a 'BESSIE' for outstanding performance of the year for 1984 presented by DTW New York Dance and Theater Award. Heyward has written, produced and performed in all of her multimedia works notably two other large scale multimedia performances entitled respectively "Mood Music" premiered May 1988 and "Miracles in Reverse" premiering in Potsdam, Germany in 1996. Heyward has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Multi-Arts and Film/Video/Multimedia Foundations,  The Greenwall Foundation, NYSCA and NYFA in support of this work. For the past six years Heyward has been totally submerged in digital and interactive technologies. The DVD-ROM version of “Miracles in Reverse" has been shown at The Daejeon Municipal Museum in Korea (curated by Lawrence Rinder), Art Interactive in Boston (curated by Kathy Brew), the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, and Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City as an installation. Heyward’s commercial work includes directing for pop television including many music videos as well as shorts for MTV and M2.