SELECTED WORK
Art, Place & Collective Imagination
Erica’s creative practice moves across visual art, public projects, and community collaboration. Her work is rooted in identity, culture, memory, and place, using art as a way to connect, reflect, and imagine new possibilities.
SELECTED RECOGNITION2017 + 2019
Haines & Friends Fund
Artist Grant
2019
Homenaje Latino
Award Recipient
2020
Signal Fire
Tinderbox Artist Residency
in collaboration w/ Rogue Climate
2020
Cofounded
Coalición Fortaleza
2024
Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership
Award Recipient
2026
seeing justice Lilla Jewel Awardee
Award Recipient
COLLECTED BEYOND OREGON
Erica's work has been collected nationally and internationally, with commissions reaching Australia, Canada, and Germany
Brown Girl’s Sketchbook & Two Paintings
Art
Painting · Illustration · Personal Storytelling · 2023
Rather than inventing an exhibition description, I’d keep this section especially simple until Erica gives you more context about this body of work.
Erica’s visual work explores identity, cultural memory, lived experience, and the stories carried through people and place.
Her practice is deeply personal, using art as a path toward reclaiming identity, expressing lived experience, and creating space for reflection, connection, and possibility.
02 — ARTIST RESIDENCY
Tinderbox Residency
Signal Fire Artist Residency · In Collaboration with Rogue Climate · 2020
Erica was awarded a Signal Fire Tinderbox Artist Residency in 2020 in collaboration with Rogue Climate.
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03 — SELECTED PROJECT
End Fossil Fuels
National Campaign· 2023
I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute as one of the artists in Art to End Fossil Fuels, a project by People vs. Fossil Fuels. This powerful initiative brings together visual designs by five artists, each of whom has personally experienced the devastating impacts of extreme weather disasters in their communities.
My design reflects the devastating reality of wildfires. In 2020, my community was ravaged by a wildfire that destroyed nearly 2,800 structures, including the neighborhoods where I grew up. Many of my relatives lost their homes. Yet, amid the destruction, our community came together, rising from the ashes to rebuild, heal, and move forward together.
04 — SELECTED PROJECT
Oregon Clean Energy
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Selected Works
FROM THE STUDIO
A selection of Erica’s visual artwork exploring identity, culture, memory, place, and lived experience.
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Madres Protegen
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De Aqui y De Alla
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El Nopal Es Mi Corona
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We Protect Each Other
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Tierra Sagradaa Art
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COMPARTIR
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CARE
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Transform
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Defend
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Care for Each Other
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After The Fire
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Art rooted in culture, community, and collective possibility
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Art rooted in culture, community, and collective possibility ✴︎
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