The two works selected for the 10th Annual National Juried Photo Show, Nov. 2-24 at the Texas Artists Museum, www.art-tams.com, in Port Arthur, were created as part of Coffman-Guerra's 2003 senior show entitled "Tree." Inspired by Billie Holiday's signature song, "Strange Fruit," a haunting piece written by Lewis Allen in the 1930s about lynching, this body of color photographs explores the origins of personal racial attitudes. She credits Assistant Professor Clare Cornell for challenging her to push her art in more complicated ways. "A lot of what we believe as grownups we were taught as children," Coffman-Guerra explains. "The images are related to the idea of molding children's ideas and belief systems." The two pieces chosen for the Texas show are called "Made from Organically Grown Products" and "Never Store Knives in a Drawer."

Today Coffman-Guerra is a freelance Web developer and artist. Since graduating she has had art work accepted into the senior honors exhibition at the Center for Visual Art, www.mscd.edu/news/cva, been invited to participate in an invitational show at Core New Art Space in Denver and been exhibited at CSU's Curfmann Gallery. She eventually hopes to return to school to earn a master of fine arts degree.