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Erica Jane Huntzinger was raised in the western the suburbs of Chicago. Her parents hail from Maine and Pennsylvania and they drove there yearly to see family and friends all while absorbing and exploring the landscapes and ground they missed. Her immediate family was centered in questioning, learning and growing. Her mother was a psychologist, father, a minister and she was the sister to an adventurous brother. She made her way through creative explorations from hundreds of coloring books, mud, rock and stick scapes into multi-media work through the lens of a painter.
Pursuing the humanities, she studied Art and English Literature at Illinois State University and transferred into the Painting Department at The University of Illinois in Champaign. Huntzinger studied Art and Ecology in England for 6 months at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and graduated from The University of Illinois in Champaign with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts and a Major in Painting, BFA. Searching for a balance between making and helping she discovered the therapeutic arts. She studied the connections and links between psychology and art and received her MAAT; Masters of Art in Art Therapy from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
Huntzinger sustained a painting studio and practice from Chicago to Sheboygan all while teaching and learning in several educational and art institutions. Huntzinger co-owned and exhibited Chicago(land) artists at The Gathering Place Gallery in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood. She has shown throughout the country, mainly in Chicago, where several of her paintings are permanently installed at the following public institutions: Uncommon Ground, The University of Illinois at Chicago Children’s Center, and Delilah’s Bar. In Wisconsin she has collections at Bank First National in Plymouth & Manitowoc locations, Eb Flow Coffee House, and Chicory Root Tattoo in Sheboygan.
Notable exhibitions include The Chicago Cultural Center, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a solo exhibition at the Priebe Gallery at UW Oshkosh, WI with an audio piece by her partner and frequent collaborator, Cooper Diers. Her residencies include Mosnart, located in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, North High School Artist Residency Program, Artist in Residence for the Sheboygan Area School District, and a printmaking residency at Studio 224 in Port Washington, WI. Her pieces large and small have found homes in many places around the world. Huntzinger currently lives and has a studio in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.