Cadex Herrera

Cadex Herrera is a Hispano multi-disciplinary artist and educator who attended the College of Visual Arts and graduated with Bachelors in Communication Design and is currently an art teacher at Creative Arts Secondary School for the Saint Paul Public School District where art plays a large role in his restorative approach to art. As a teacher he has worked with various communities and has shared his knowledge with students who otherwise might not have had the chance to explore their creative endeavors due to their circumstances.

Cadex brings awareness to humanitarian, social and environmental injustices  by championing his culture, history, people of color, immigrants and marginalized peoples. His aim is to create art that elevates and empowers the viewer as well as the subjects and themes that he explores  through his creative processes.  

His aspirations as an artist is that through his art he can bring awareness and dialogue to a small fraction of the many social injustices. He believes social consciousness and art can be tools to exact positive change, as well as inspire to create and make a difference in our local as well as our global community.