Erica Christmas

Teaching Artist

Erica Christmas is a multidisciplinary artist, herbalist, zine maker, and musician. She received her BFA in Fine Art Photographic Sciences with a minor in Art History from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Erica has done substitute teaching, creative writing mentoring, and enrichment teaching around New Orleans. Her teaching journey started in 2006 as a Head Start TA in high school. Erica’s work is deeply personal, weaving storytelling, spirit, poetry, and portraiture. She’s taken photographs for the New York Times and was an exhibitor at the 2019 Printed Matter Art Book Fair (Los Angeles). Erica has also curated artists and shown work at the Front Gallery, where she was a former member. Erica loves gardening, making clothes & merch, writing, and being by bodies of water.