Artist Talk with Erin Haldane
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Haldane is Alaska native, Tsimshian and was born in and spent most of her childhood in Anchorage, Alaska. She moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2000 and received her BFA from Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2014. Haldane has moved around extensively throughout her adult life, frequently visiting her birth place of Alaska, living in Washington state, Brooklyn, New York, and Portland, Oregon, before returning to her forever home of New Mexico in 2021. Meanwhile, she has maintained a rigorous studio practice and her work has been shown both internationally and locally. She is now set to graduate from the Institute of American Indian Arts with a Masters in Studio Arts in 2027.
The work she is presenting is a mix of painting, collage, and print-making, most of which she’s created over the last year as a graduate student. She’s inspired by her family heritage, love of the natural and spiritual worlds, domestic spaces, mythology, symbolism and archetypes, and seeks to express the subtle magic of the everyday within each of her pieces. Haldane is mostly self-taught in Formline, the Indigenous art style of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and has been studying it for several years, incorporating it into her studio practice as a way to honor her family and maintain her culture. As a Tsimshian in O’ga P’ogeh, a tribal member of a far-reaching diaspora, Haldane seeks to find belonging in process, a sense of home in domesticity, answers to forgotten wisdoms in symbolism, and connection to community through storytelling.
Haldane hopes to continue to make art the center of her life while sharing her knowledge, experience, and skills with others, as a teacher, community member, and artist.
erinhaldane.com
Insta: @erinhaldane1
The work she is presenting is a mix of painting, collage, and print-making, most of which she’s created over the last year as a graduate student. She’s inspired by her family heritage, love of the natural and spiritual worlds, domestic spaces, mythology, symbolism and archetypes, and seeks to express the subtle magic of the everyday within each of her pieces. Haldane is mostly self-taught in Formline, the Indigenous art style of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and has been studying it for several years, incorporating it into her studio practice as a way to honor her family and maintain her culture. As a Tsimshian in O’ga P’ogeh, a tribal member of a far-reaching diaspora, Haldane seeks to find belonging in process, a sense of home in domesticity, answers to forgotten wisdoms in symbolism, and connection to community through storytelling.
Haldane hopes to continue to make art the center of her life while sharing her knowledge, experience, and skills with others, as a teacher, community member, and artist.
erinhaldane.com
Insta: @erinhaldane1
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