Awards and Exhibitions
Juried Exhibitions/Group:
Museum of the big Bend, “FotoTexas III: People, Places & Culture”
Texas Photographic Society (Juried), Alpine, TX 2024
Photographic Resource Center, "Your Work Here 2023" Boston, MA 2024
("The Bath" featured in Boston Globe)
Griffin Museum of Photography, "Members Show," Winchester, MA 2021
Griffin Museum of Photography, "Projections at the Griffin" 2021
Guilford Art Center, "Annual Juried Show," Guilford, CT 2021
Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), "Annual Juried Artists Show" 2018
Cape Cod Art Association,"All New England," (Juried) Barnstable, MA 2017
Cape Cod Art Association,"All New England," (Juried) (Honorable Mention) Barnstable MA 2016
Archway Gallery, “Annual Juried Artists Show, (Honorable Mention), Houston, TX 2016
Creative Arts Center, “Annual Juried Artists Show,” Chatham, MA 2015
Peter T Brown Gallery, “Over Time: Photography from the Advanced Photography Workshop,” Houston, TX 2014
Cape Cod Art Association,“In the Moment,” (Juried) Barnstable, MA, 2014
Flat Bed Press Gallery,“Texas Group of Photographers (TGOP) Annual Juried Show” Austin, TX, 2011
(Best Small Series)
Houston Women’s Institute, “Ike:12 Photographers,” Houston, TX 2009
Recontres International de la Photographie, Aix en Provence, France 2001
FotoFest 2000, Houston, TX, Juror, Wendy Watriss, FotoFest founder
Solo Exhibitions:
“Faces”, La Romana, Dominican Republic 1999 (and created community participation program)
“Faces,”Houston Public Library, Houston, TX 1999
“Faces II,”Tim Dowden Studio, Houston, Texas 2002
Talks:
"Creating Home: Beauty and the Sacred Everywhere"
"Photo Flaunt" Photographic Resource Center (PRC) Boston 2024
"Creating Photographs from Within," Eastham Public Library, MA
(Winter Program Series "How Creators Create") 2018
Performance:
Encore performance with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jones Hall, Houston, TX 1980
Press
"Photographer and contemplative psychotherapist Heidi Straube
views her world with a tender heart through the lens of a camera..."
Curriculum Vitae
Education and Licenses
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Texas 1989
M.Ed, Counseling Psychology, University of Houston, Texas
B.A., Human Relations and Counseling, BDIC Honors Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Photography studies with Mario Algaze, Peter T. Brown, Joel Meyerowitz, Michael Koetzle
Flute studies with Byron Hester, Albert Tipton
Flute performance with Jean-Pierre Rampal