Artist: Heather Mae Erickson | Location: Sylva, NC
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Artist: Heather Mae Erickson | Location: Sylva, NC
Sylva, NC
Erickson earned a BFA at UArts and her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, after which she was a summer resident at the Archie Bray and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland from 2004-2005. Afterwards, she became a resident artist at The Clay Studio, and taught at UArts, Rowan University, and Arcadia University. She has earned numerous awards, including first place for the Horizon Award presented by the Museum of Art and Design in New York and honorable mentions at the Korea Biennale International 2007 and 2009 Exhibitions. She was awarded an Independence Fellowship for a summer 2009 residency at The International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark and was the 2009-2012 Robert Turner Teaching Fellow in Ceramic Art at Alfred University. In 2012, she moved to Colorado, where she taught at many schools including CU-Boulder. She currently lives in Sylva, NC and is the new assistant professor of ceramics at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee,NC.