The Heath Collective, a tight knit group of artists and artisans located within Heath Ceramics’ San Francisco building, will open the doors to Windy Chien’s and Tung Chiang’s individual, private studios. Windy and Tung will give in-person guided tours of the artists’ fiber and ceramics studios respectively - their processes, materials, and inspirations. Available works and works-in-progress will be on view. Visitors will walk away with rare and special insight into the inner workings of two thriving artistic practices and the inspirational studio spaces that house them.

Artist Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Following long careers at Apple and as the owner of legendary music shop Aquarius Records, she launched her studio in 2015. Select clients include the National Geographic Society, the De Young Museum, the San Francisco MOMA, Nobu Hotels, Google, and the Kering Group, and her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times, and Martha Stewart. Windy’s book about her work was published by Abrams in 2019.

Tung Chiang is the Clay Studio Director at Heath Ceramics. Since 2013, he has been masterfully driving the design exploration that Heath was founded on. The Clay Studio creates small-batch, one-of-a-kind, and special production pieces that stretch Heath’s design point of view. Tung is also the magic behind the company’s annual Design Series—where he explores a specific subject in clay, culminating each year in a show of exceptional one of a kind ceramic works. Tung’s superpower is distillation—translating meaning into pure design objects. In a career spanning graphic design and advertising in Hong Kong, furniture design at Art Center in Pasadena, and industrial design in San Francisco, Tung’s craft has evolved from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, and a fusion of thinking, designing, and making.