erica harris likes to make art.
I am drawn to:
anatomical charts, arabic newspapers, azbukas, abecedarios, asian pill packets, bingo dots, birdwatching guides, burmese grammar books, beeswax, broadsides, bakery string, braille, cancelled brazilian envelopes, carrier pigeon harnesses, cornerparts, connect-the-dot books, cyrillic letterforms, colored pencil, chinese notebooks, currency, candy wrappers, cardboard, doll arms, dried orangepeel, deeds, dress patterns, edging, elementary vocabulary, egg charts, eggshells, egg boxes, first aid manuals, flowered tablecloths, flashcards, french dictionaries, food packaging, gold leaf, global war maps, gravestone rubbings, gun diagrams, georgian dictionaries, gazetteers of nations, gameboards, gumsticks, housepaint, handwritten correspondences, handpainted signs, housecoat pockets, hindi stringpackets, hunting handbooks, indian postcards, ideas of hope, joss paper, laotian rice bags, lists of numbers, life magazines from the 40's & 50's, little wonder books, letterpressed ration cards, lowercase letters, matchbooks, montgomery ward catalogs, muskox likenesses, marblegame instructions, medicine labels, measuring devices, nepalese texts, nautical charts, old shoes, observation, obsolescence, piano parts, popular mechanics issues, pictures of small animals, polish, thai, and macedonian phrasebooks, paper masks, pin-up girls, piƱata sorpresas, pinkham persimmons crates, player-piano scrolls, photographs of water and houses, palau, quiz-me games of useful knowledge, question and answer boards, retablo pieces, ritual objects, rice paper, sheet music, slovenian grain sacks, soap labels, small pictures of all animals, shrinky-dinks, sewing machines, shrine debris, serbian directions, seed diagrams, script practice sheets, sewingbox contents, typewriter keys, trim, the immigrant experience, toy cars, toy planes, tables of contents, things that fly, things in need of mending, the power of translation, toy theaters, teacup handles, titles, vintage album covers, wallpaper, what i remember, x-rays, yugoslavian lessonplans, yarn, ink, glue, and other languages...
Places
varanasi, india
varanasi, india

I’ve just returned from six weeks in Varanasi, India.
I have some answers and I have some questions.
It was my great privilege to be able to work with some of the city’s most outstanding young artists.

soapmaking in guatemala
soapmaking in guatemala

In September, I traveled to Guatemala to teach workshops on soap making…

itaparica, bahia, brazil
itaparica, bahia, brazil

this section still under construction!

residency in macedonia
residency in macedonia

i was in residence last fall at artpoint-gumno in the village of sloeshtica, macedonia. I had wonderful neighbors who taught me how to herd sheep, keep bees, make plum liquor, speak macedonian, and get around town. nostravia, sloeshtica!

cambodia
cambodia
laos
laos
myanmar
myanmar
vietnam
vietnam
the colima project-colima, el salvador
the colima project-colima, el salvador

The Colima Project is a community art exchange sponsored by San Francisco State University.