eHoltART is the studio name for the work done by Erin Holt (she/they).
Erin is a Minnesota based artist who has been making and teaching art in and around the Twin Cities metro area for the better part of fifteen years. They have worked both independently and alongside leading Twin Cities arts organizations to deliver programs, classes, exhibitions, trainings, and events at schools, community spaces, festivals, libraries, museums, galleries, public parks, busy street corners, emergency housing shelters and more. They are passionate about removing barriers to access the arts, introducing people to high quality materials and fine art techniques, and igniting a love of art and artistic practice in artists of all ages and ability levels. She believes art gives our lives color, art captures the ephemeral, art uplifts marginalized voices, art challenges us, and art heals.
Erin is a Minnesota based artist who has been making and teaching art in and around the Twin Cities metro area for the better part of fifteen years. They have worked both independently and alongside leading Twin Cities arts organizations to deliver programs, classes, exhibitions, trainings, and events at schools, community spaces, festivals, libraries, museums, galleries, public parks, busy street corners, emergency housing shelters and more. They are passionate about removing barriers to access the arts, introducing people to high quality materials and fine art techniques, and igniting a love of art and artistic practice in artists of all ages and ability levels. She believes art gives our lives color, art captures the ephemeral, art uplifts marginalized voices, art challenges us, and art heals.
Artist’s Statement
My work is, first and foremost, personal. Sometimes I’m drawing the surreal shopping mall I see frequently in my dreams and other times I’m lovingly carving the blind eyes on an ancient Greenland shark. I’m as likely to spend 12 straight hours creating a tiny collage with precisely placed papers as I am to be up to my elbows in mud hunting for wild clay deposits. No matter where the creative compulsion of the day takes me, I maintain an internal conversation with myself, constantly exploring the edges of of my creative impulses, sussing out the the many spindly roots of my fascinations.
I am interested in the human body: How far back can we trace its ancient evolution? How can it pose with so many points of articulation? What are the ways that celebrate and revile our bodies?
I am interested in the utility of objects: How do we develop personal connections with mundane things? How can we welcome beauty into the everyday? Can a functional object be beautiful? Is beauty a function in and of itself?
I am interested in houses and homes: How do we live and where? Who gets to live securely and safely, and who can only dream of such a luxury? How does one build a home for themselves?
I am interested in lizards. I think they’re cool.
In everything that I do, I’m always hoping to trigger a moment of introspection in those who view and interact with my work. I want them to have a chance to be curious, to experience wonder, to be transported by a sliver of color or a hint of texture. I want those who come into contact with my work to develop personal fascinations of their own, and hopefully make art of their own someday that I can enjoy in turn.
My work is, first and foremost, personal. Sometimes I’m drawing the surreal shopping mall I see frequently in my dreams and other times I’m lovingly carving the blind eyes on an ancient Greenland shark. I’m as likely to spend 12 straight hours creating a tiny collage with precisely placed papers as I am to be up to my elbows in mud hunting for wild clay deposits. No matter where the creative compulsion of the day takes me, I maintain an internal conversation with myself, constantly exploring the edges of of my creative impulses, sussing out the the many spindly roots of my fascinations.
I am interested in the human body: How far back can we trace its ancient evolution? How can it pose with so many points of articulation? What are the ways that celebrate and revile our bodies?
I am interested in the utility of objects: How do we develop personal connections with mundane things? How can we welcome beauty into the everyday? Can a functional object be beautiful? Is beauty a function in and of itself?
I am interested in houses and homes: How do we live and where? Who gets to live securely and safely, and who can only dream of such a luxury? How does one build a home for themselves?
I am interested in lizards. I think they’re cool.
In everything that I do, I’m always hoping to trigger a moment of introspection in those who view and interact with my work. I want them to have a chance to be curious, to experience wonder, to be transported by a sliver of color or a hint of texture. I want those who come into contact with my work to develop personal fascinations of their own, and hopefully make art of their own someday that I can enjoy in turn.
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Education
Training from the Kennedy Center as a part of their Partners in Education program, Washington DC 2020-2022
Coursework in the Minnesota Center for Bookarts Certificate program, Minneapolis MN 2017-now
Graduate Apprenticeship with Professor Ruthann Godollei, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
BA in Studio Arts and Anthropology from Macalester College St. Paul MN 2013
Coursework in Art and Anthropology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (February-June) 2012
Selected Exhibitions
Moving Pictures - Juried Print Exchange and Exhibition - St. Ambrose University, Davenport IA 2019
7 Deadly Sins - Juried Exhibition, NCECA Participating Show - Carleton College, Northfield MN 2019
Art of the Eye - Juried Exhibition - Kenosha Creative Space, Kenosha WI 2018
Parts of a Whole, IV - Juried Exhibition - Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2017
The Workshop - Collaborative Installation with Samantha Leopold Sullivan - Studio Payne, Minneapolis MN 2017
The Land Machinist - Collaborative Installation and Show for Sad Boys Pop Up Gallery - Hamline University, St. Paul MN 2016
Wondrous Transformations Print Exchange - Group Exhibition at SGCI conference -PNCA Commons, Portland OR 2016
The River: Memory and Metaphor on the Mississippi - Juried Exhibition - Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2016
Parts of a Whole, III - Juried Exhibition - Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2016
Animalia International Print Exchange - Group Exhibition - The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, NSW, Australia 2016
Iowa State University Postcard Print Exchange 2014 - Iowa State University, Ames IA 2014
Dirty Dozen: The 2014 Calendar - Group Exhibition - Living Proof Print Collective, Minneapolis MN 2014
Only Natural - Solo Exhibition - The Ledge Gallery, Minneapolis MN 2013
Quiet Nightmare - Juried Exhibition - The People’s Gallery, St. Paul, MN 2013
Artists of the NCC - Group Exhibition - Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN 2013
Animalia International Print Exchange - Group Exhibition 2013-2014
The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, NSW, Australia
Il Bisonte Gallery, the Oltrarno, Florence, Italy
Urbandale, Iowa Library, Iowa
Art for Shelter III - Benefit Sale and Exhibition - Burnet Gallery, Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis MN 2013
Mock-Up: Senior Capstone Show - Group Exhibition - Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
Student Show - Juried Exhibition - Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2012
4th Biennial Undergraduate Showcase - Group Exhibition - Hopkins Art Center, Hopkins MN 2011
Student Show - Juried Exhibition - Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 2010
Les Farrington Best 100 Juried Art Exhibition - Juried Exhibition - A to Z Gallery, St. Paul MN 2009
Selected Collections
MALL (Minneapolis Art Lending Library), Minneapolis MN 2019
Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia 2014, 2016
Macalester College Permanent Collection, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
Publications
Godollei, Ruthann. How to Create your own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers & Stickers: Screenprinting, Photocopy Art, Mixed Media Collage, and Other Guerilla Poster Styles. Voyageur Press, 2013.
Teaching and Related Experience
Artist Instructor, Rum River Arts Center, Anoka MN 2023-now
Artist Instructor and Demonstrating Artist, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN 2019-now
Artist Instructor, Ceramics, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN 2011- now
Community Programs Manager, Artistry MN, Bloomington MN 2020-2023
Artist Instructor, Artistry MN, Bloomington MN 2019-2023
Vice President of the Board, Friends of Highland Arts, St. Paul MN 2018-2022
Youth and Community Artist Instructor, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2015- 2021
Guest Lecturer, Plastic Plate Lithography, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2015, 2016
Departmental / Curatorial Assistant, Art & Art History Department, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
Ceramics Technician and Studio Assistant, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2010-2013
Education
Training from the Kennedy Center as a part of their Partners in Education program, Washington DC 2020-2022
Coursework in the Minnesota Center for Bookarts Certificate program, Minneapolis MN 2017-now
Graduate Apprenticeship with Professor Ruthann Godollei, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
BA in Studio Arts and Anthropology from Macalester College St. Paul MN 2013
Coursework in Art and Anthropology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (February-June) 2012
Selected Exhibitions
Moving Pictures - Juried Print Exchange and Exhibition - St. Ambrose University, Davenport IA 2019
7 Deadly Sins - Juried Exhibition, NCECA Participating Show - Carleton College, Northfield MN 2019
Art of the Eye - Juried Exhibition - Kenosha Creative Space, Kenosha WI 2018
Parts of a Whole, IV - Juried Exhibition - Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2017
The Workshop - Collaborative Installation with Samantha Leopold Sullivan - Studio Payne, Minneapolis MN 2017
The Land Machinist - Collaborative Installation and Show for Sad Boys Pop Up Gallery - Hamline University, St. Paul MN 2016
Wondrous Transformations Print Exchange - Group Exhibition at SGCI conference -PNCA Commons, Portland OR 2016
The River: Memory and Metaphor on the Mississippi - Juried Exhibition - Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2016
Parts of a Whole, III - Juried Exhibition - Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2016
Animalia International Print Exchange - Group Exhibition - The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, NSW, Australia 2016
Iowa State University Postcard Print Exchange 2014 - Iowa State University, Ames IA 2014
Dirty Dozen: The 2014 Calendar - Group Exhibition - Living Proof Print Collective, Minneapolis MN 2014
Only Natural - Solo Exhibition - The Ledge Gallery, Minneapolis MN 2013
Quiet Nightmare - Juried Exhibition - The People’s Gallery, St. Paul, MN 2013
Artists of the NCC - Group Exhibition - Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN 2013
Animalia International Print Exchange - Group Exhibition 2013-2014
The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral, NSW, Australia
Il Bisonte Gallery, the Oltrarno, Florence, Italy
Urbandale, Iowa Library, Iowa
Art for Shelter III - Benefit Sale and Exhibition - Burnet Gallery, Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis MN 2013
Mock-Up: Senior Capstone Show - Group Exhibition - Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
Student Show - Juried Exhibition - Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2012
4th Biennial Undergraduate Showcase - Group Exhibition - Hopkins Art Center, Hopkins MN 2011
Student Show - Juried Exhibition - Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 2010
Les Farrington Best 100 Juried Art Exhibition - Juried Exhibition - A to Z Gallery, St. Paul MN 2009
Selected Collections
MALL (Minneapolis Art Lending Library), Minneapolis MN 2019
Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia 2014, 2016
Macalester College Permanent Collection, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
Publications
Godollei, Ruthann. How to Create your own Gig Posters, Band T-Shirts, Album Covers & Stickers: Screenprinting, Photocopy Art, Mixed Media Collage, and Other Guerilla Poster Styles. Voyageur Press, 2013.
Teaching and Related Experience
Artist Instructor, Rum River Arts Center, Anoka MN 2023-now
Artist Instructor and Demonstrating Artist, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN 2019-now
Artist Instructor, Ceramics, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN 2011- now
Community Programs Manager, Artistry MN, Bloomington MN 2020-2023
Artist Instructor, Artistry MN, Bloomington MN 2019-2023
Vice President of the Board, Friends of Highland Arts, St. Paul MN 2018-2022
Youth and Community Artist Instructor, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN 2015- 2021
Guest Lecturer, Plastic Plate Lithography, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2015, 2016
Departmental / Curatorial Assistant, Art & Art History Department, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2013
Ceramics Technician and Studio Assistant, Macalester College, St. Paul MN 2010-2013