Our Team
Heather Hershberger
Heather is the Program Coordinator at Wick Monet and an independent curator. Their work is focused on the goal of making art accessible to communities, encouraging interest and engagement with local artists and artist supporting institutions.
Currently, Heather’s work is focused on community engagement at Wick Monet, co-leading a program to teach a combination of arts appreciation, writing, and professional development skills. In addition, they are the editor-in-chief of the newspaper: The Commentary by Wick Monet. The publication aims to support artists and institutions by providing commentary and promotion on local arts exhibitions to add a diverse array of artists to the Pittsburgh Artistic Cannon. They are also working on an exhibition for Associated Artists of Pittsburgh for their Fall 2025 programming.
Heather is a Pennsylvania native and honors graduate of The University of Pittsburgh. While they find their artistic niche in curation and space-making, Heather considers themselves a practitioner of drawing, painting, and collage. They also have a taste for specialty coffees, rare records, and ephemera collecting.
Neil Martin
Neil Martin is the owner and founder of Wick Monet and a current employee at Center of Life. He strongly believes that communities are at their best when resources and opportunities are provided to those in art supporting roles (curators, journalists, venues, art administrators). Wick Monet was built on this belief.
Neil is a current board member at Radiant Hall, a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh’s Leadership Development Initiative (Steering Committee Member), former advisory board member of the Black Transformative Arts Network, former advisory board member of Transformative Arts Pittsburgh, former Quality Campaign Review Committee Member at APOST, former Formation Committee member of Art’s Education Collaborative’s Art Look Map, a former Advisory Board Member at First Gen Fund.
Neil is a Pittsburgh native and a graduate of The University of Michigan and The Linsly School.
Neil identifies as a social artist and partakes in the following mediums: exhibit curation, photography, painting, film producing, improvisational theater and candle making.
Neil is also a cofounder of the Wick Monet International Film Festival and the Wick Monet Art Commentary Program.