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EMAIL:  herns001@umn.edu
b. 1981 (El Paso, TX)


EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts in Photography (May 2012) -- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Master of Art Education (August 2009) – Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Master of Arts in Philosophy (December 2006) –Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Thesis Title: "Photography as Readymade Art"

Bachelor of Arts (December 2003) – Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010    - New Texas Talent XVI (juried), Craighead Green Gallery, July-September 2010, Dallas, TX
2010    - North of the 45th (juried), DeVos Art Museum, June-July 2010, Marquette, MI
2010    - Food, Money, Garbage, Death: An Art and Lecture Series, June 2010, Minneapolis, MN
2010    - 4th Annual Summer Juried Show (juried), Atwood Memorial Center, May-September
2010, St. Cloud, MN
2010    - Foot in the Door, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February-June 2010, Minneapolis, MN
2010   
- While in Class (juried), Woman Made Gallery,  January-February 2010, Chicago, IL
2009    - Here and Now, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, October 2009, Minneapolis, MN
2009    - Unlivable Body, solo show, MAE thesis exhibition, TTU Junction Center Gallery, July 2009,  Junction, TX
2009    - Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Gallery 1, May 2009, Lubbock, TX
2008    - Cantanker, Issue 6 exhibition (juried), Big Medium Gallery, September 2008, Austin, TX
2008    - Reflections, solo show, J&B coffee house, March 2008, Lubbock, TX
2008    - For the Love of the Page, Texas Tech University library, February 2008, Lubbock, TX
2007    - Transitions, solo show, RENDr Gallery, December 2007, Lubbock, TX


UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor of Record -- Introduction to Black and White Photography, Summer 2010 (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)
Teaching Assistant -- Introduction to Black and White Photography, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)
Instructor of Record -- Rethinking Art Education, Spring 2009 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
Teaching Assistant -- Rethinking Art Education, Fall 2008 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
Teaching Assistant -- Art History Survey I, Spring 2008 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
Teaching Assistant --Art Appreciation, Fall 2007 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
Instructor of Record -- Ethics, Spring-Fall 2006 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
Teaching Assistant -- Ethics, Fall 2005 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)
Teaching Assistant -- World Religions, Spring 2005 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX)

INTERNATIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

English Language Teacher, (Jeju, Korea, January-June 2007)


PRESENTATIONS/TALKS/WORKSHOPS

Artist Talk -- Unlivable Body project, Women and the Arts class in the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) department – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (October 2009)

Artist Talk -- Unlivable Body project and book presentation, Rethinking Art Education, Visual Studies department

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
(Spring-Fall semesters 2008)

Workshop -- digital photography, Rethinking Art Education, Visual Studies department –
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
(Spring-Fall 2008)


Workshop -- ceramics - hand-building and wheel, Rethinking Art Education, Visual Studies department –
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
(Spring-Fall 2008)

Workshop -- developed “How to write a philosophy paper,” for undergraduate students, Philosophy department --
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX  (Fall 2006)


PUBLICATIONS

2009 -- Harbinger journal of arts, Fall 2009 edition, Lubbock, TX
2008 -- Cantanker magazine, September 2008, Issue 6, Austin, TX


AWARDS

Graduate Conference Travel Award, University of Minnesosta, Minneapolis, MN, 2010
Graduate Professional Development Award, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2010
Helen Devitt Jones Academic Scholarship,  Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 2007

Presidential Academic Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1999






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