Carissa Kalia Heinrichs is a collaborative printer and interdisciplinary artist based in Tampa, Florida. She received her MFA in 2019 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a Project Assistantship and exhibition at Tandem Press, and her BFA from Arizona State University. She has participated in artist residencies with Gallery 224 Studios in Wisconsin (USA), Shiro Oni Artist Residency (Japan), Alfonso Crujera’s electroetching residency workshop in Gran Canaria (Spain), and Tides Institute and Museum of Art’s StudioWorks in Maine (USA). Carissa has taught college courses in printmaking at Pensacola State College and the University of Virginia, as well as public workshops at a wide range of venues, including Kress Contemporary in Ybor City, Tampa. She is currently a Research Associate: Production Printer at Graphicstudio in University of South Florida’s College of Design, Art, & Performance in the Institute for Research in Art. Her work has exhibited in galleries nationwide and internationally. Most recently, her personal practice has focused on collective story-sharing, with personhood, trauma, and land operating identity as an enmeshed and malleable construct. Much of her work imitates modes of disappearance, whether in understanding of place, the unknowns of one another, or the material transference.