Herman references the culture of consumption in the imagery she utilizes and the presentation concepts she has employed to display objects ranging from ink-jet printed cookies to her series of embossments on hand-made chewing gum. She has exhibited her work broadly, and in 2001, her "Limited Edition Cookies" were included in the exhibition entitled Digital: Printmaking Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Herman's work has entered such collections as The Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. á la carte, Herman's 1999 solo exhibition at Adam Baumgold Gallery, was described in The New Yorker as "appetizing silliness."

Herman currently teaches printmaking and new media at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine (where she also directs the Self-Design major). She earned a B.A. in English Literature and Art History from Smith College, and an M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she co-founded Slop Brand Art, a curatorial collaborative that seeks to bridge the divide between fine art and mainstream culture by offering viewers an exciting selection of the freshest artwork available at a wide range of prices. Slop attempts this through traveling franchise tours accompanied by exhibition catalogs that resemble supermarket-style circulars. These catalogs have been disseminated to and beyond habitual art audiences through newspapers in three American cities, and are available through www.slopart.com.

Presented by the Department of Art and Visual Culture

Studio visits with students will take place from 4-6 PM