Heather Personett is a figurative artist based in New York City. She received her BFA in Animation and Illustration from SUNY Fredonia before pursuing an MFA degree in Sculpture at the New York Academy of Art in 2014. She was selected as a recipient of the ABCStone Carrara Stone Carving Residency in Italy where she was introduced to stone carving and served as an assistant to artist Barbara Segal. Afterward she made a career as a portrait sculptor at Studio EIS in Brooklyn, NY. Her knowledge of figurative sculpture and moldmaking has led her to work freelance for many artists and projects across NYC. She currently heads the sculpture program at Grand Central Atelier, as well as teaching figurative sculpture classes at SUNY FIT and Structural Anatomy at NYAA.