About

Rachel Hermes is an emerging artist originally from Wichita, KS. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphases in Painting and Printmaking at Kansas State University in December 2019. While at K-State, she was granted several juried scholarships and awards, including the Mary Lucille Dunn Art Scholarship and the Weary Family Scholarship. In 2019, she was awarded a Fellowship to attend a painting workshop, Advanced Painting: Delving into Practice with Rubens Ghenov, at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO. She has exhibited regionally in solo and group exhibitions, including the juried Printmaking National Exhibition held at Mark Arts in Wichita, KS. Her work has been published in the 2017 and 2019 editions of Touchstone Magazine as well as two 2019 editions of Live Ideas, a peer-reviewed undergraduate journal. Additionally, her work was featured in Issue 30 of The HAND magazine, published in November 2020. In 2018, Rachel was awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for her contributions to “Transforming Printmaking Through Chemical Innovation,” a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artworks Grant.