What’s driving Erin Riley, on artblog radio

By libby and roberta

February 13, 2012   ·   0 Comments

Homeless, with a loom that she carries wherever she goes, artist Erin Riley is not living on the street. Instead, she has figured out her own way of surviving, moving from one artists’ colony to the next (the MacDowell Colony, the Bemis Center, the Vermont Studio Center, etc.), as she weaves her contemporary narratives on life and its dangers. A Fleisher Challenge winner for 2011-12, who’s part of a Fiber Philadelphia show in March 2012 at Space 1026, she provides a window into some of her personal life, her thoughts and her methods.

Here’s the full podcast interview:

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And here’s the YouTube slide version of this podcast:

This episode is edited by Peter Crimmins. The music is by Eric Biondo. The slide show is edited by artblog Intern Alison McMenamin. Thanks to the Knight Foundation for helping us get the ball rolling on this project. Thanks also to J-Lab‘s Enterprise Reporting Fund and William Penn Foundation for additional support and to our partner WHYY NewsWorks for their ongoing support and for sharing artblog radio episodes on the arts & culture page of their community news site NewsWorks.org. You can subscribe to artblog radio on iTunes.

Tags: artblog radio, erin riley, fiber philadelphia, space 1026