About

Erin Garber-Pearson is a multimedia artist with a dual focus on immersive performance and sculptural objects. Stemming from her interests in animism, the idea that all objects, places, and creatures are alive and have consciousness, she creates work that explore issues of human resilience and environmental sustainability, particularly in urban spaces.

Erin strives to bring heightened moments of play into her art practice and life. Her studio practice is a mix of objects, embodied movement, and a lot of unusual equipment. She has shown her work in galleries throughout the country, and been a guest speaker on the topic of artist ethics in entrepreneurship, and the importance of play in building resilience as an adult. 

Often called a “Renaissance Woman,” Erin is also a welder, tightwire walker, radical feminist, and lifelong student of mother earth. Her work has been featured at the Toledo Museum of Art, Woodwalk Gallery in Wisconsin, Bowling Green State University's Wolfe Center for the Arts, the Sculpture X Social Practice Conference in Toledo, OH, and in the Women CineMakers Biennial Magazine based in Berlin. She also embraces nontraditional art spaces that don't fit neatly on her CV.

Erin has spent her career teaching college art in 3 universities, and students of all ages at Birds Eye View Circus studio in Toledo, Ohio, a circus school she founded In 2012. She has mentored hundreds of students and instructors to become skilled artists and storytellers while producing and directing many full-length shows and community events. Currently she is pursuing her second Masters degree in Expressive Arts and Clinical Mental Health Counseling at  Adler Graduate School in the Twin Cities area.