Erin Anfinson is an Associate Professor of Art at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches drawing, design, and digital art courses in the Foundations program.

Her encaustic-infused paper works and animated films are often inspired by an interest in science, conservation, natural history, and narratives of ecosystems in flux. In addition, she has been a National Park Service artist-in-residence twice, first in 2017 at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa, and again in 2018-19 at Stones River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro, TN. Both residencies profoundly impacted her studio practice, creating works that reflect on the discovery, awareness, and loss of diminishing native ecosystems.
 
Anfinson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, and film festivals, including the Gadsden Museum of Art (Gadsden, AL), The Frist Museum (Nashville, TN), and the Krakow International Green Film Festival (Krakow, Poland). She has received several awards and grants from organizations, including the International Encaustic Artist and the Tennessee Arts Commission. In addition to her creative work and research, she regularly teaches mixed media encaustic workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 

About Anfinson's Animations

About ten years ago, "I revisited my childhood fascination with animation, and it has since grown to occupy a significant part of my studio practice. My early experimentation with playful cut paper stop-motion sequences eventually evolved into the creation of short films." A 2017 artist residency informed my most recent project at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, where I learned about the diminished native tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Animation provided a platform to tell a deeper visual story about this environment and communicate the experience of moving through the space with sight, sound, and motion.

www.erinanfinson.com

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