Carissa Kalia Heinrichs is a printmaker, photographer, and interdisciplinary artist currently based out of New York.  She graduated from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts with a BFA degree in Intermedia Art. From 2015 to 2016, Carissa was assistant project director to Gallery 224’s ‘Analog Photography: Looking Back and Looking Ahead’ program series for a newly installed public darkroom in Port Washington, WI. In the summer of 2017, Carissa attended the Shiro Oni Artist Residency in Japan.  She completed an MFA in 2019 at University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a Project Assistantship and thesis exhibition at Tandem Press. Carissa has taught college courses in printmaking at Pensacola State College and the University of Virginia, as well as public workshops to a wide range of ages and experience levels. She is currently working as a letterpress printer for a rare books bindery in New York. Her work has exhibited in numerous galleries nationwide, as well as internationally in Japan and Berlin. Most recently, her projects have focused on interpersonal secret-keeping, trauma, and the landscape operating identity as an intertwined construct. Her processes primarily specialize in experimental printmaking, alternative photographic processes, fibers, and material investigations.