Saundra Alexis Heath is a creativity coach, award-winning business and marketing strategist. She is the co-founder and Director of Heath Gallery in New York and President of the Heath Group.
Heath Gallery is a mixed-use contemporary art space located on the parlor floor of a Central Harlem brownstone in Harlem’s historic Mount Morris Park district. The gallery originally opened in 2002 in response to the lack of opportunity for Black artists, including Heath’s husband and gallery co-founder, painter, Thomas E. Heath. Since 2002, Heath Gallery has exhibited over 600 artists in solo, group, and pop-up exhibitions.
Observing some artists thrived and others barely survived during the 2020 pandemic, Heath began offering artists virtual check-ins, and developing business resources for artists. Recent projects include the development of a free PDF guide to help artists identify different places to show their work and a workshop, Show and Sell Your Art™. Recent public art projects include the BLM Harlem Mural and The Renaissance Pavilion sponsored by Uber Eats.
Saundra holds a Master of Science in Organizational leadership, and has held executive marketing communication positions that have produced award-winning campaign strategies and breakthrough results for P&G, Avon, Royal Caribbean, The U.S. Postal Service, The U.S. Army, General Motors, Amtrak and Quaker Oats.
She’s been published in Fine Arts of America and The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives: 50+ Inspiring Exercises from Creativity Coaches Worldwide edited by Eric Maisel.
What does Black History Mean to you this year?
It’s particularly important to identify, share and celebrate, past and present, personal, national, global and all Black people’s contributions and accomplishments. We cannot allow ourselves to forget the consistent corporate effort at the highest levels to deny, marginalize, turn over, take credit for and co-opt the beautiful, breath-taking, brilliance that is who Black people are and takes nothing away from anyone else.
What is the first creative thing you are going to do post pandemic?
Gather a safe (just in case) amount of creative people together to share art, celebrate, and give thanks for having each other. I also want to give thanks to God for having survived, and being able to do now what we haven’t been able to do and in memory of those who transitioned and left us assignments to complete and continue.
To Learn More about Saundra Visit:
Website: Heath Gallery
Instagram: @saundra_alexis_heath