Heidemarie Holmes-Heiss believes that every child is a natural artist. Her workshops enhance creativity and visual expression. She combines traditional visual art with experimental approaches that are stimulated by right brain and multi-intelligence activities. These include movement, storytelling, sounds, rhythm, and the visual arts with explorations of materials and techniques in drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital art. Her child-oriented instructions emphasize process.

Heidemarie works with small and large groups of children and adults focusing on individual expression, mural presentations or exhibitions in the community. She uses the VT Standards and the VT Framework in her school teaching and summer camp curriculum. Her topics include "Tree Stories," "Greenhouse Effects," "Extinct Animals," or fairy tale adaptations. Her strong interests in nature and human relationships celebrate this connection. "Art making is non-threatening, non-criticizing; you don't have to compare right to wrong. Art making is the most empowering activity you can do for yourself," is Heidemarie's quote in an article by David Smith entitled "Bringing together Children, their Parents...and Art." Since 1998, Heidemarie mentored children's artwork on line with VT ARTT (Art Responding Through Technology at www.VTartt.org ). Heidemarie presently works as a visual art teacher in the elementary schools of East Montpelier and Calais.