Jennifer HerethJennifer Hereth has had over 50 exhibitions during her career in galleries and museums across the hemisphere. She had taught drawing and painting for 40 years first at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she also co-ran their Mexic Program in San Miguel de Allende and co-directed Oxbow Summer School of Art, in Saugatuck, Michigan and then became a Professor of Art at The College of DuPage in Glen Ellen, IL. She retired in 2019. Jennifer Hereth was a Visiting Lecturer in Art as Meditation for the University of Creation and Spirituality, Oakland, Ca. and at McCormick Seminary and Lutheran School of Theology at The University of Chicago, 2014, 2015. A Visiting Lecturer at The International Folk Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2014. The recipient of many grants including The Kellogg Foundation Grant for International Studies, Global Initiative Grant, Kiev, Ukraine 2017, Illinois Consortium for International Studies, teacher exchange to Xian University, China, 2014, Niagara Foundation Grant to Turkey, 2013, Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Adele Wheeler Woman of Distinction Award, 2013. Jennifer is also the mother of two wonderful men, Winslow and Gus Liebert-Hereth. Jennifer wishes to thank her father, Robert Hereth, who without his encouragement and editing skills this essay would not have been written. And she wishes to acknowledge her mother, Barbara, the first and most important artist in her life. Read More Read Less