Originally from Oklahoma City, Heidi Hardin received her MFA in Painting in 1979 and her BA in Biology and Visual Arts in 1976, both from the UCSD. For 40 years she has exhibited her paintings nationally in galleries and museums and has taught arts at all levels. Her artwork was represented by Newspace, LA from the early 1980s until 2006 when the gallery closed and its archives—along with Ms. Hardin's exhibits—became a part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.. She now directs and represents her own artwork and that of other SF fine artists at Think Round Fine Arts (TRFA), located at 2140 Bush Street, Suite 1, SF, CA. TRFA is a not-for-profit gallery that represents artists with a focus on the Earth and its families. Heidi has taught community children for 20 years about the Superfund Cleanup and Reuse of Hunters Point Shipyard (HPS) in SF schools through her innovative art and science curriculum, The Children’s Mural Program (CMP). In 2010, Ms. Hardin and Think Round were awarded one of the nine public art commissions for HPS through the SF Redevelopment Agency HPS Public Art Program. In 2010-11, more than 60 local CMP students participated in the creation of this commission, titled STREAM of CONSCIOUSNESS, a 1’ x 120’ handmade ceramic & mosaic tile mural. All of Ms. Hardin’s work as a community-based artist & as a practicing fine artist are now held in trust in the vision, mission & objectives of Think Round, Inc., (TRI) a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that she formed in 2004. TRI offices relocated in 2012 to expanded facilities including exhibition, studio & teaching spaces with a modest art & science library. In 2018, TRI became a Cooperation Circle of United Religions Initiative. (URI). Currently, Heidi Hardin is: completing her birth vision, The Human Family Tree/A Walk Through Paradise...seven installations & working to build The Center for the Human Family to house it. For more info, visit: www.thinkround.org.