ERICA WEHRI
Erica Wehri resides in the country outside of a rural town in Ohio where she has a small in-home studio and is currently renovating an exterior building to become her new creative space. Erica can also be found at local collaborative artist spaces in Edon Ohio and Kendallville Indiana exploring clay works such as thrown pottery and hand built pottery.
Erica Wehri is a Multi-Age Education - Art graduate of the University of Toledo and an artist that is currently working with clay as a medium and considers herself a novice ceramist as she continues to learn the language of clay. Erica has chosen art education to pursue her interests in a variety of art media. While at UT, Erica advanced her pottery skills under Alex Ferrante, who was a visiting professor.
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Erica's influences range from local artists to the masters. Local potters that influence Erica are Deb Walterhouse, from the Community Learning Center (CLC) in Kendallville Indiana, Kathrine Gaff, of Oklahoma Contemporary (formerly from the CLC), and David Loughborough of Mudsock Glass in Edon Ohio. Some of the masters that have had influence on Erica's work are Dali, Warhol, and O'Keeffe to name a few. An artist that Erica has recently discovered is Barbara Padron Hernandez. A cuban artist. Her work can be found here: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/barbara-padron-hernandez-3283?campaign_id=202&keyword=barbara%20padron%20hernandez&matchtype=e&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjbyYBhCdARIsAArC6LJgP4GaPcq2pumWtWFC5KbnztpSi98igzbhVStU4hIn5kIPtBfr-xsaAsZPEALw_wcB&page=2.
Courses completed at UT are Introduction to Ceramics, Introduction to Photography, Introduction to Printmaking, Advanced Printmaking: Reliefs and Monotypes, Foundations of Digital Media, Foundations of 2D Art, Foundations of 3D Art, Foundations of Drawing I & II, History of Western Art I & II, History of Modern Art, Ethnographic Art, Flash Web Animation, Beginning Adobe Illustrator, Podcasting, Vodcasting, and Blogging, Website maintenance, and Dreamweaver Web page development.