Heather Oelklaus is the printmaking and darkroom supervisor in the Art Department at Colorado College. Experimentation with alternative processes is a key element in her photographic art. Heather focuses on the importance of balancing contemporary concepts and iconic imagery with early photographic techniques such as photopolymer plate, Daguerreotype, wet plate collodion, lumen prints, pinhole photography, chemigrams, instant film, various cameraless photography, and traditional silver printing.