Artist Bio
Erin Keane studied art at Miami University in Ohio where she graduated with an M . A . in Art Education . She moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville , North Carolina , and taught at Brevard Middle School for twelve years where she earned National Board Certification in Visual Arts . After meeting a bookbinder and becoming enamored with the process , Erin studied intensively under three mentors : Annie Fain Liden-Barralon , Mary Carol Koester , and Dea Sasso . In 2011 , Erin moved into a new stage of her career and became a full time exhibiting artist and instructor .
Erin is an artist in the River Arts District of Asheville , NC , and a juried member of Southern Highland Craft Guild . She is represented by 310 ART Gallery in Asheville , NC ; Southern Highland Craft Gallery in Biltmore Village of Asheville , NC ; Guild Crafts in northeast Asheville , NC ; Parkway Crafts in Blowing Rock , NC , and Number 7 Arts Gallery in Brevard , NC . Erin teaches encaustic , bookbinding , and visual journaling at River ’ s Edge Studio with Fleta Monaghan in Asheville , NC , and at John C . Campbell Folk School in Brasstown , NC . In 2015 , Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch invited Erin to be an EncaustiCamp instructor in Seattle , WA , and she ’ ll teach again with Patricia in 2016 at OPENstudio in Lexington , KY .