Erin writes about art, artists, nature, land use, counterculture, communes, alternative education and her encounters with the physical and ethereal world. Her essays, curatorial texts, and artist profiles have been published by University of Minnesota, University of Houston, a variety of magazines and small presses. She is the author of two books, “The Rites of Land” and “Trails Across the Bighorns.”
Becoming More Cottonwood
a creative essay and three illustrations
published by Southwest Contemporary
volume 6 / Rooted: Poetics of Place Fall 2022
Seeing New Mountains
an exhibition essay for Lee Saloutos
presented by Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, NV, August 2022
Trails Across the Bighorns
an exploration of northern Wyoming
self-published, 2020
Void with a View: a visit with Paul O’Connor
a catalog essay for Paul O’Connor Sculpture 2017-2019
published by Auro Mesa Press, Taos, 2020
How to See the Unseen
a catalog essay for Mokha Laget: Spatial Luminescence
published by Apache Plume Press, Santa Fe, 2019
The Rites of Land
an exploration of Mendocino County, California
self-published, 2018
Sharing Places, Building Dreams: How One Commune Led to Another (and Another)
a catalog essay for Radical: 50 Years of Libre Intentional Artist Community
published by Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 2018
Golden Moments: A Visit with Artist Alexis Elton
an artist profile for Edible, Santa Fe, February 2016
Atomic Surplus
curatorial catalog essay for the exhibition catalog
published by Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, 2013
Architecture on Film: Drop City
programme notes for The Architecture Foundation, London, July 2013
Power: Gridlocked
essay contributed to Machine Wilderness: 18th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Sbarge, Suzanne and Andrea Polli, eds.
published by Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2012
How to Build a Commune: Drop City’s Influence on the Southwestern Commune Movement
essay contributed to West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977, Auther, Elissa and Adam Lerner, eds.
published by University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2011
Fort-Building or the Path to Radical Change
curatorial catalog essay for Worlds Outside This One
published by 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, 2011
How to Start with Nothing
essay contributed to Phonebook3, co-written with Nina Elder and Nancy Zastudil, Dwyer, Bryce, ed.
published by InCubate, Chicago, 2011
What's a Campfire?
catalog contribution to Proposals for a Socialist Colony, Skydive Office of Cultural Affairs, ed.
published by Skydive, Houston, 2010
The Teacher Was the Sixties
essay contributed to Proximity Magazine: Education as Art, Chicago, vol. 8, Winter 2010
PLAND: Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation
essay co-written with Nina Elder and Nancy Zastudil
contributed to Proximity Magazine: Catalog of Strategies, Chicago, vol. 7, Spring 2010
Red Legacy:
a collection of notes on the possible intersections between commune building, land use, and art practice
sole writer of online blog, 2009-2010
All Eyes on Houston
essay contributed to On the Banks of the Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston, Hooper, Rachel and Nancy Zastudil, eds.
published by University of Houston Press, 2009
973 Possibilities and How to Make Sense of It?
curatorial catalog essay for The Institute for Social Research: 90 Days on Communal Living
published by Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, 2008
The San Francisco World's Fair of 2007
curatorial contribution to exhibition catalog, edited Bradley, Will, et al.
published by California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2007