photo credit: Mercedes Jelinek
Ms. Erika Adams, MFA, TMP, BA
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- Associate Professor, Print Media, Studio Arts
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Supervised program: Studio Arts (MFA)
Research areas: Print media, installation, multiples, textuality, collective creations, paper, lithography, artist books, drawing, sculpture, place, landscape, entomology, plant biology, ecology, citizen science, everydayness, poetry, typographic design
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Education
MFA University of New Mexico, 2004
TMP Tamarind Institute, 2001
BA University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994
Biography
Looking to ideas of interdependence, natural systems and language, my studio practice draws connections between phenomena, experience and meaning. I'm inspired by insect swarms, flocks of birds, water systems, poetry and everyday interactions. By collecting, cataloging, arranging and rearranging information I investigate meanings that are woven within the visual material.
Prior to joining the faculty at Concordia University, Adams taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as well as Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Adams has been an artist-in-residence at the Hall Farm Center for the Arts (Vermont), Frans Masereel Centre (Belgium), the Vermont Studio Center (U.S.), Penland School for Crafts (U.S.), Djerassi (U.S.), AIR Serenbe (U.S.), Atelier Imago (NB) and NSCAD (N.S.). Adams recently published Pickles I have known, Volume II: Tales of Fermentation, a fine-press project. Her research has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Mama Variations (glitter), silkscreen, 2023
photo by Guy L'Heureux
Template III, monotype, 2023
photo by Erika Adams
detail from Interstitial
photo by Erika Adams