Idaherma Williams was born in New York City and moved to Philadelphia PA as a child. She won a Board of Education four-year Art Scholarship to the University of the Arts, earned her BFA degree, and later attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Master of Fine Arts Degree. Idaherma always enjoyed the relief process; her early work used linoleum block, and later woodblock printing. She combines images of city and country life using these elements in her work.

Idaherma's work is of the beauty in the mundane things of life. She seeks to find the jewels hidden within. Recently, she has begun the digital archival pigment prints and has exhibited them worldwide. She prints her woodblock prints by hand using a Japanese baren and her pigment prints using an archival Epson 1800 printer. She exhibits throughout the United States and abroad. Her one-artist Show in London, UK, 2005, was the Twelve Labors of Hercules woodblock prints at the Lennox Gallery, UK. Sponsored by the Lucis Trust. Other series of work have won prizes and exhibitions. In 2004 she won the National Association of Women Artists Medal of Honor in Graphics. She received the First Jawk Prize in KIWA, Kyoto International Woodblock Association, Japan, in 2003. She is currently President of the American Color Print Society, is on the Board of the Society of American Graphic Artists, member of Audubon Artists Inc., The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Sketch Club.

Idaherma's woodblock prints may be found in the booklet 'The trials of Hercules' UK, published by the Lucis Press. Also in Quotable Woman, Courage books, Philadelphia and London, p. 59. Her digital prints were included in the 6th and 7th Lessendra World Art Print Annual, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria

Awards, International and Individual Shows, and Public Collections
The Ziegler Prize 96th Annual Plastic Club Members Medal Show Philadelphia PA 2008
Aida Whedon Memorial Award for Printmaking. Nat'l Assoc. of Women Artists 118th Annual Hoboken NJ 2007
Printmaking Prize, Art of the Flower, Philadelphia Sketch Club Philadelphia PA 2007
The May Audubon Post Award, Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Philadelphia PA 2005
Silver Medal of Honor Audubon Artists, 62nd Annual Juried Exhibition,Salamagundi club NYC 2004
N.A.W.A.Medal of Honor and Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award for Printmaking. 115th Annual Exhibition of National Association of Women Artists. 88 Greenwich Street NYC 2004
1st Kiwa Prize, Kyoto International Woodblock Association Kyoto Japan 2003
1st Prize for Printmaking 21st Annual Ellarslie Open, Trenton City Museum NJ 2003
The SAGA Award in honor of Antonio Frasconi, Society of American Graphic Artists, 69th National Members exhibition, at Art Students League, NYC 2002
The Stella Drabkin Memorial Second Prize American Color Print Society, American College Bryn Mawr PA 2001
Individual Shows Location State Year
OLD PRINT SHOP, 1st floor Gallery, 150 Lexington Ave., New York City October 2007
The Complete Hercules Woodblock Prints. The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Camac St. Philadelphia PA 2007
The Complete Hercules Woodblock Prints. The Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton NJ 2007
The Gallery on Lafayette Trenton NJ 2004
Café Gallery New Jersey State Museum Trenton NJ 2002
1860 House, 'The Complete Page One Series of Woodblock Prints' Skillman NJ 2000
TAWA Invitational, Trenton Artists Workshop Assoc. Ellarslie,The City Museum of Trenton NJ 1999
International Shows Location State Year
7th Lessendra World Art Print Annual Sophia Bulgaria 2008
Kiwa, Kyoto Woodblock Print Assoc. Kyoto Japan 2003, 2006, 2007
6th Lessendra World Art Print Annual Sophia Bulgaria 2007
Society of American Graphic Artists in Prague CK 2006
Philadelphia Watercolor Society 105th International Works on Paper. Ursinus College Collegeville PA 2005
In the tracks of Hercules Lennox Gallery London UK 2005

Public Collections
Philadelphia Central Free Library, the Print Collection Philadelphia PA
The Lucis Trust London UK
Newark Public Library, Special Collections Division Newark NJ
Kyoto International Woodprint Association Kyoto Japan 2003, 1998
Franklin Township Council Chambers Somerset NJ
Kendall at Hanover, 80 Lyme Rd. Hanover NH
The Fellowship Print Collection of the Penna. Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Princeton University, Graphics Arts Library Princeton New Jersey
Rider University Lawrenceville New Jersey
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (National Association of Women Artists collection) New Brunswick New Jersey
The Print Consortium Kansas City Kansas