Catherine Herrera
Catherine Herrera is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, photographer, artist and writer of Native Californian, Latina and European American descent who became disabled after a needle aspiration injury during a blood draw. The resulting disability shifted Catherine’s practice to add installation & public art. In 2023, Catherine was selected an Unlock Her Potential Mentee in Documentary Filmmaking, and her documentary film/project Martins Beach has received a Puffin Foundation filmmaking grant, a Creative Corp - 18th Street Arts Center Fellow, and selections from her photography were selected for ‘Landscapes of Survivance: Contemporary Native American Photography’ from September-18- October 27, 2023 at the Art & Art History Gallery, Santa Clara University.'
Education:
I studied filmmaking through Sundance Collab, the University of Southern
California, courses in filmmaking & art, Production training through Bay Area
Video Coalition, photography through self-learning, supplemented with courses
through Centro de la Imagen while working on assignment as a photojournalist in
Mexico City.
I am a self-taught in drawing, painting and sculpture.
Teaching Experience:
- Before COVID, I had interviewed and began talks for beginning teaching the Spirit Doll workshop for a S.F. Arts organization that continues to remain close as of September 09, 2020.
- Unversity High School
- August 2019 -- Commissioned to sculpt and create a life-sized Spirit Doll and perform in public for Carmina Escobar's Feast of Beams Public Art Performance at the Santa Cruz Lighthouse with Indexical.
- Feb-April 2019 -- Triton Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit of Spirit Doll series, and artist talk.
- Jan-June 2019 -- de Saisset Museum – exhibition of photography and Spirit Doll series.
- 2023/24 -- Creative Corp Fellowship for Martins Beach in partnership with 18th Street Arts Center, Puffin Foundation Filmmaking Grant, 2023 Unlock Her Potential Mentorship.
- Sept-October 2023 -- Landscapes of Survivance: Contemporary Native American Photography, Curator Elizabeth Hawley, Art & Art History Gallery, Santa Clara University..