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• Manuel Barkan Memorial Award - National Art Education Association (04/01/2024-04/30/2024)
• Second Place Award - Grace: Expressions Through Clay, Exhibition in conjunction with Silver City Clay Festival, Light Art Space (07/01/2023-07/31/2023)
• Third Place Award - WHAM Art Center (01/01/2023-01/31/2023)
• Third Place Prize - From the Ground Up (10/09/2021)
• First Place Prize - Ruminations Exhibition (07/31/2021)
• Aaron and Sylvia Wechter Family Excellence Fund (01/01/2021)
• Collected Work - San Angelo Museum of Fine Art (09/15/2020)
• Catherine Kistermacher Award - El Paso Art Association, Selected by Kate Green curator of EPMA (10/01/2019-10/31/2019)
• COLA career enhancement award - College of Liberal Arts (07/03/2019)

• Ph D in Art Education, The Ohio State University (2016)

• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Earth and Fire (03/01/2024). Wheeling, WV, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay National (01/01/2024). Goleta, CA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, One-Person - Partial Narratives (10/06/2023-11/03/2023). Carbondale, CO, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Origin (10/01/2023). Baltimore, MD, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Art Works in Publication - Suburban Desert (10/01/2023-10/31/2023). Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - 13th Annual Workhouse Clay International (07/01/2023). Lorton, VA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Grace: Expressions Through Clay, Exhibition in conjunction with Silver City Clay Festival (07/01/2023). Silver City, NM, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - The Human Figure in Clay, 19th Annual Ceramics Juried Open Exhibition (07/01/2023). Tujunga, CA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay Bash: A Triennial Ceramics Juried Exhibition (06/01/2023). Clinton, NJ, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Off Center (06/01/2023). Roseville, CA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Shapes of Influence (04/01/2023). Springfield, IL, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Study is What You Do with Other People, UTEP Faculty Biennial (03/01/2023). El Paso, TX, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - 44th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition (01/01/2023). Mesa, AZ, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - All Things Clay (01/01/2023). Surprise, AZ, USA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Lush 2: A Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Brian Rochefort (10/13/2022-12/10/2022). Tequesta, Florida. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Southern Miss Ceramics National, Juror George Rodriguez (10/10/2022-11/04/2022). Long Beach, Mississippi. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Visions in Clay, Juror Rachel Gotlieb Curator of Ceramic Arts, Crocker Art Museum (09/01/2022-09/23/2022). Stockton, California. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay National XVI, Juror Diane Kenney (08/19/2022-09/30/2022). Carbondale, Colorado. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Sculpture National, Juror Meaghan Gates (08/12/2022-09/24/2022). New Orleans, Louisiana. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Workhouse 12th Annual Clay International, Juror Tony Clennell (08/06/2022-10/09/2022). Lorton, Virginia. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Flora, Fauna, and Fiction, Juror Sara Catapano (08/05/2022-08/31/2022). Missoula, Montana. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Food Glorious Food (07/01/2022-07/01/2023). Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Reflections in Clay, Juror Jamie Bates Sloane (07/01/2022-07/30/2022). Silver City Clay Festival. Silver City, New Mexico. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Ceramics Biennial 2022, Juror David R. MacDonald (06/17/2022-07/31/2022). Guilford, Connecticut. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Fire and Fiber (06/03/2022-07/29/2022). Las Cruces Potter's Guild. Las Cruces, New Mexico; Deming, New Mexico. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Clay A Southern Consensus, Juror Asia Mathis (05/13/2022-06/25/2022). New Orleans, Louisiana. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Contemporary Clay 2022, Juror Fong Choo (05/13/2022-06/25/2022). Grand Junction, Colorado. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Well Grounded: Small Feats of Clay 2022, Juror Marsha Shindler (03/02/2022-03/26/2022). Lincoln, California. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Clay National XV: The Narrative Figure, Jurors Kyle and Kelly Phelps (09/21/2021-10/12/2021). Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Where the Wild Things Are, Juror David Scott Smith (09/03/2021-09/25/2021). Missoula, MT. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - From the Ground Up XXX: Juried Regional Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Joshua R. Clark (08/06/2021-10/09/2021). Las Cruces Potter Guild. Las Cruces, NM. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Ruminations: 2021 International Juried Exhibition, Juror Sanam Enami (07/02/2021-07/31/2021). Silver City, NM. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Botanical Abundance: The 17th Annual Ceramics Juried Open Exhibition, Juror CJ Jilek (06/05/2021-07/10/2021). Tujunga, CA (virtual). Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Art Works in Publication - Greener Pastures (06/01/2021-06/01/2021). San Angelo, Texas. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Art Works in Publication - Play performance (06/01/2021-06/01/2021). Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Works on Paper Juried Exhibition, Juror Aida Birritteri (02/23/2021-03/23/2021). Philadelphia, PA (virtual). Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - The 23rd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, Juror Jo Lauria (07/01/2020-09/30/2020). San Angelo, TX,. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - UTEP Faculty Exhibition (01/30/2020-04/17/2020). El Paso, TX. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Westward HO! An Exhibition of Contemporary Craft of the Southwest, Curator Curator Gail M. Brown (12/07/2019-02/01/2020). Wayne, PA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Arts International 2019 Juried Art Exhibition, Jurors Lynn McLain, Paul Henry, Ramirez, Martha Arzabala (10/05/2019-10/30/2019). El Paso Arts Association. El Paso, TX. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Assemblage, Curator Dana Carlisle Kletchka (10/01/2019-11/09/2019). OSU. Columbus, OH. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - 10th Annual Visions in Clay, Juror Sarah Milllfelt (09/05/2019-09/27/2019). San Joaquin Delta College. Stockton, CA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Workhouse Clay International, Juror Peter Beasecker (08/10/2019-10/13/2019). Lorton, VA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - From the Ground Up XXIX: Regional Juried Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Naomi Clement (08/02/2019-10/19/2019). Las Cruces, NM. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Two Cultures – Two Traditions: Ceramics Worlds Apart Meet in New Mexico (08/01/2019-09/03/2019). Las Cruces Potter's Guild. Albuquerque, NM. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - 7th Annual Cup Show (06/06/2019-08/31/2019). Lynden, WA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Exhibition, Group - Earth Devised: A National Exhibition of Functional and Non-Functional Ceramic Art, Juror Rick Nickel (05/11/2019-06/06/2019). Norfolk, VA. Heather Kaplan.
• Art - Art Works in Publication - Where There's Smoke (09/30/2021). Heather Kaplan.

• Tracing Images of Precarity: Sketching, Mourning, and a Relational Making Practice Visual Arts Research (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Education as Affective: Making Visual Journals During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 40 1 (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Spontaneous Cosmic Becomings/Cut together-apart in Conocimiento: Cosmic Generator and the El Paso Spontaneous Shrine Journal of Posthumanism (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Pórtate Bien con la Maestra: The Problem with Quality in a Borderlands STEAM Makerspace Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (2023), Heather G. Kaplan, Diane E. Golding.
• Framing Precarity Through Images of the Grievable Life of Children Studies in Art Education 62 4 (2021), Heather G. Kaplan.
• The Art of Engineering ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access (2021), Diane Golding, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Border Tuner and Teeter-Totter Wall: Two works of Participatory Public Pedagogy Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art/Intellect 10 1 (2021), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Serendipity as a Curricular Approach to Early Childhood Art Education Art Education Journal 73 6 (2020), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Questions of New Materialist Ethics Bloomsbury Academic (2020), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Border Materials, Early Childhood Art Education, and the Ontological Persistence of American Flexibility Studies in Art Education 60 2 (2019), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Alan Kaprow and Manuel Barkan: 21st century incarnations for the neoliberal era of art education The Penn State Seminar @ 50: Transdisciplinary inquiry, practice, and possibilities (2019), Heather G. Kaplan, Kristine Sunday.

• New materialist, prosthetic convergences of children, clay, and video (2023), Volume Tucson, AZ, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Where is the child?:Imagining the field(work) of contemporary early childhood research in art education post covid. (2023), Volume Tucson, AZ, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Partial Narratives (2023), Volume Virtual: Carbondale, CO, Heather G. Kaplan, Undine Brod.
• Kitemaking as questioning: Rupture and reconsideration: Global Perspectives of Early Childhood Education: Ruptures and Reimaginings (2023), Volume Cannakale, Turkey, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Marking up the myth that children should be seen and not heard (2023), Volume San Antonio, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• The case for early childhood’s (childhood studies’) inclusion in art education: Where are children in art education’s vision for equity, diversity, and inclusion? (2023), Volume San Antonio, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Pórtate Bien con la Maestra: How the Border Questions Quality, (2022), Volume Tucson, Arizona, Heather Kaplan, Diane Golding.
• Education as Affective: Making Visual Journals During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2022), Volume Athens, Georgia, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Little Polly Flinders, Artistic/Aesthetic Inquiry, and the Myth that Children Should be Seen and Not Heard (2022), Volume Vancouver, Canada, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Tracing Images of Precarity: Sketching, Mourning, and a Relational Making Practice. (2022), Volume Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, Heather G. Kaplan.
• From the Ground Up artist talks (2021), Volume Las Cruces, NM, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Yinka Shonibare (2021), Volume El Paso, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Art and Engineering in Kindergarten (2021), Volume Long Beach, CA (Virtual), Diane Golding, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Exploring image, ideas, and process with printmaker Nabil Gonzalez (2021), Volume El Paso, TX (virtual), Heather G. Kaplan, Nabil Gonzalez.
• Recent Work (2021), Volume El Paso, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• The intersection of early childhood and art: A Conversation about materials, aesthetics, and artist identities (2021), Volume Albuquerque, NM, Heather G. Kaplan, Gigi Yu, Jennifer Combe.
• Exploring Materials for Student Artistic Agency and Teacher Confidence in Art Making. (2021), Volume Fresno California (virtual), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Roberto Lugo: Critical Discussions of Hip-hop, Ceramics, and Visual Culture (2021), Volume Chicago, IL (Virtual), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Matter and Mysticism: Mika Rottenberg and El Paso Strong (2020), Volume Mc Allen, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Rethinking the Logic of the Border Wall through Artistic Technologies and Public Pedagogy (2020), Volume Mc Allen, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Storytelling as a Process and for Processing (2020), Volume University Park, PA, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Transformative Pedagogies for Early Childhood Art Education (2020), Volume Minneapolis, MN (cancelled), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Fear and Loathing in the Early Childhood Art Class: Short Attention Spans and Other Myths (2020), Volume Minneapolis MN (cancelled), Heather G. Kaplan.
• Framing Precarity: Art Education and Images of the Grievable Life of Children (2020), Volume El Paso, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Exploring Post Modern Principles (2019), Volume Galveston, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Conceptions and Complexities: Tales of Boundaries, Borders, and Belonging in Early Childhood Makerspaces (2019), Volume Las Cruces, NM, Heather G. Kaplan, Diane E. Golding.
• Precarity, Protectionism, and Working with Young Children (2019), Volume McAllen,TX, Heather G. Kaplan, Kristine Sunday.
• Simple Moldmaking for the Classroom (2019), Volume El Paso, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Heather Kaplan: Recent Ceramic Works (2019), Volume New Castle, ME, Heather G. Kaplan.
• Exploring and Engendering Curricular Cross Pollinations with Early Childhood Art (2019), Volume Boston, MA, Heather G. Kaplan, Shana Cinquemani.
• Least Adult and Making Children Visible in Research (2019), Volume Boston, MALeast Adult and Making Children Visible in Research, Heather G. Kaplan.

• Sculpture and Makerspace Practices and Problem Solving in a Jewish Elementary School