Up and Coming Artist: Erica Wehri

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Erica Wehri resides in the country outside the small town of

Edgerton Ohio where she has a small in home studio an 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 is currently expanding on her ECE Education Degree as a Senior at the University of Toledo where she is working towards her BA in Art Education. Erica has chosen art education to purse her interests of a variety of art media. This is largely due to her inability to focus on one thing at a time :) However, her current obsession is pottery. Three of her most recent projects are in the kiln. Those projects are a one hand coiled built bowl, a slab built coffee mug, and one extruder coil built pitcher.

Erica's influences range from local artists to the masters. Local potters that influence Erica are Kathrine Gaff and Derek Schwartz, both from the Community Learning Center in Kendallville Indiana 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.

Course completed at UT are Foundations of 2D Art, Foundations of 3D Art, Foundations of Drawing 2, Flash Web Animation, Beginning Adobe Illustrator, Podcasting, Vodcasting, and Blogging, Website maintenance, and Dreamweaver Web page development.