She also took a job running the ceramics studio at the Jamestown Settlement where she began to study and recreate pottery from the archaeological collections at the historic site.
[4] Erickson also completed two residencies; one at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, VA, and the other at Starworks in Star and Seagrove, NC.
Fragments of British, European, Asian, and Native American pottery unearthed in the early colonial excavations embody a remarkable global convergence of cultures in clay.
My practice in the rediscovery of lost ceramic techniques and the contexts of this history define my approach as a contemporary artist.
I use the depth of history through the art of making to draw parallels through time such as the 18th century Staffordshire pottery industry and global design giant Nike, Wedgewood's abolitionist ceramics and 21st child slavery, the colonial discovery and obsession with fossils as prescient to our perilous addiction to fossil fuels.