Join us for Ignite this week featuring Erica Larsen-Dockray!
Erica Larsen-Dockray is an Animation and Media Artist, Educator, Entrepreneur, Playworker, and Activist. She is owner/operator of her studio, ‘eek art’, devoted to her art practice which includes hybrid installations consisting of varying elements of painting, moving image, dance, theater, interactivity, and experimental projection. Her work has been shown domestically and internationally in cultural institutions such as the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, The Great Plains Art Museum, Future Studio Gallery, The New Children’s Museum and at the Art Festival Kesenian, Indonesia.
Erica is currently a lecturer at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at UNL and continues to serve on the advisory board dating back to 2017. She has over 25 years experience as animation and media arts educator in a wide array of locations and ages including 9 years on Skid Row. As a special faculty at her alma mater, CalArts, her class “The Animated Woman” was featured in over 1,000 national and international news outlets including the LA and New York Times.
She is the founding director of the Calibraska Arts Initiative launched in 2013. Every summer since, she has returned to her home state of Nebraska, often bringing a variety of professional artists with her to teach unique art and media offerings. It currently tours six different cities and includes an internship program, educator training, free virtual workshops with her partners at Nickelodeon Animation Studio and more. She is a trained playworker and co-founded SCV Adventure Play Foundation focused on self directed play space and education. Erica is a strong advocate for environmental justice and spent over a decade representing her previous community against the Chiquita Canyon Landfill expansion turned disaster. She recently re-located from Los Angeles to Lincoln, Nebraska and is reconceptualizing her creative life and exploring exciting new collaborations.
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