BeGaet Art is the work of sculptors, fabricators, and installation artists Heather and Fez beGaetz.
Meet Heather
Heather BeGaetz is an interdisciplinary artist known for creating monumental hand-crafted sculptures that invite wonder, participation, and collective imagination. Drawing from her experiences as a queer mother, collaborator, and lifelong student of the natural world, she creates richly storied beings that often become sites of spontaneous performance, play, and gathering.
Her work explores deep relationality—with birth and death, human and more-than-human communities, material systems, and the living landscapes that sustain us. Rooted in a profound connection to the cycles of the earth, her practice is informed by formative experiences of cultural isolation, encounters with mortality, and close relationships with wild places and forces of nature.
BeGaetz’s large-scale installations have been exhibited internationally at immersive art destinations, music festivals, and public spaces, including recent presentations at Morton Arboretum, Area15, Orion Amphitheater, and Electric Forest. She frequently collaborates with her husband and creative partner, Fez BeGaetz, and draws ongoing inspiration from raising their daughter, Calliope.
Alongside her sculptural work, BeGaetz has led numerous participatory community arts initiatives, including dance gatherings, choirs, improvisational theater, and collaborative sculpture projects. Central to her practice is the belief that creativity is a shared cultural responsibility and that art can help people reconnect with one another, their ancestors, future generations, and the living world they co-create together.
In 2012, Fez launched his artistic career with the creation of Lilium Gigantum, a pair of enormous climbable lily flower sculptures designed to foster human connection. Since then, he has continued to expand his practice, combining steel with aluminum, fiberglass, acrylic, wood, fabric, lighting, and interactive elements. His sculptures often balance structural rigor with playful imagination, blending organic forms, psychedelic color schemes, and immersive environments.
Fez frequently collaborates with his partner, Heather BeGaetz, whose strengths in vision, color, sculpting, and conceptual development complement his focus on engineering, fabrication, and large-scale installation design. Together, inspired by their daughter Calliope and the natural world around them, they continue to create works that invite connection, curiosity, and transformation.
For Fez, art is both a voice and a purpose added to place. Inspired by everything from sunflowers to icebergs, he believes the role of art is to interrupt routine, quiet the mind, and create space for meaningful experience. If a sculpture can awaken a feeling, a memory, or a new perspective—even for a moment—it has fulfilled its purpose.
Meet Fez
Fez BeGaetz is a multidisciplinary sculptor known for his large-scale steel sculptures, vibrant color palettes, and illuminating pieces, his work merges engineering, natural inspiration, and immersive experience. Through each piece, he seeks to create moments of wonder that draw viewers beyond the ordinary and into deeper reflection.
Raised between construction sites and a flower shop, Fez developed a unique blend of technical skill and artistic sensitivity. Working alongside his father, a general contractor, he learned the fundamentals of building, material behavior, and structural design. From his mother, a florist and lifelong maker, he inherited an appreciation for composition, color, and balance—qualities that continue to shape his artistic vision.
A lifelong curiosity about the world has carried Fez across continents and disciplines. Among his most formative experiences were ten years spent as expedition crew in the polar regions, primarily as a kayak guide and expedition leader in Antarctica. The monumental scale and beauty of Antarctic icebergs profoundly influenced his understanding of form, space, and awe—an influence that remains visible throughout his work.