In 1977, Heebner graduated with a M.F.A from UC Santa Barbara where she was a student of the late William Dole.  She has distinguished herself as both an abstract painter and book artist with pieces held in the collection of the Getty Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Harvard University among others. Heebner was recently given a solo exhibition at UCLA’s Fowler Museum.

Her work was recently shown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s exhibition, Made in Santa Barbara.  It included a photograph from her Khmer Faces series, a project inspired by Heebner’s travels to the temples of Angkor, Cambodia.  Heebner sketched the faces and then transeferred her photographs of stone faces onto the handmade paper by scanning them and printing them on a laser printer. She describes them “as extensions of drawings in graphite and as elements of collage — ribboning through a painted surface that evokes water or movement or patterns left by the sedimentation process that causes sandstone to form.”

Central to Heebner’s oeuvre is the artist’s interest in the spiritual qualities of the natural world.  Integrating concepts of archaeology, history, and nature, Heebner's inquisitive work is drawn from her travels throughout the world. Heebner says, “Travel increases my sense of humanity, makes me take risks, reveals and undermines my prejudices, and stretches my conceptions about art.”