Heather McCaw is a painter currently working in Navarre, Florida. She has a degree in English literature from the Ohio State University and a master’s degree from the American University of Beirut, where she studied themes of gender, exile, and identity in contemporary Arab literature. She also studied art at the Columbus College of Art and Design and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. As a painter, McCaw explores visual complexity, paradox, and narrative through still-life arrangements. Most of the objects she paints hold deep personal meaning and, in that sense, she is seeking to create a personal iconography through her work. Her paintings were most recently exhibited at Dacia Gallery in New York City and artDC Gallery in Hyattsville, Maryland. In August 2011, she will be a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Having lived and worked for years in Washington, DC, a city uniquely situated at the intersection between the local and the global, McCaw is passionate about multidisciplinary art that engages society, politics, and history on many levels.