Professional Training and Experience

Academic Training

Rochester Institute of Technology           Master of Fine Arts                             2003

Minnesota State University Moorhead     Bachelor of Fine Arts                          2000

Professional Experience

University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, Professor, Department of Art and Design     2004-present                                                    

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY                                                   2003-04

School of Art:  Adjuncty Faculty                                     

School of Art:  Summer Printmaking Institute Workshop Faculty

Print Club of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Master Printer

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY                                                   2001-02

School of Art:    Master Printer and Graduate/Research Assistant to

Professor Keith Howard, Printmaking

Selected Solo Exhibitions

The Only Way We’re Going to Get Through This is Together: Prints by Erin Holscher         2020

Almazan, Rosewood Arts Center Gallery, Kettering, OH

The Only Way We’re Going to Get Through This is Together:  Paintings and Prints             2019

by Erin Holscher Almazan, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO

Hold Tight, Execute Project Space, Dallas, TX

The Only Way We’re Going to Get Through This is Together:  Paintings and Prints by        2018

Erin Holscher Almazan, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN

Erin Holscher Almazan, Volunteer State Community College Gallery, Gallatin, TN              2016

Erin Holscher Almazan:  Searching, Indiana University East Gallery, Richmond, IN                  2014    

Erin Holscher, Coker College, Hartsville, SC

Erin Holscher, School of the Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium                                                   2004

Selected Two and Three-Person Exhibitions

Forthcoming:  Gallery in Bloom, with Anna Lee and Steph Leininger, Rourke Art                 2025

Museum, Moorhead, MN

Erin Holscher Almazan and Julie Jones:  Reciprocity, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH              2016

In Vivo:  Erin Holscher Almazan, Francis Schanberger and Diane Stemper, Dayton            2012

Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH, Curator:  Bridgette Bogle

Carrie Longley and Erin Holscher Almazan, St. Francis University, Fort Wayne, IN 

The Naturalists:  Work by Francis Schanberger, Erin Holscher Almazan and                      2011                                      Diane Stemper, Ohio Arts League Gallery, Columbus, OH

Amy Lucille McLaren, Erin Holscher Almazan and Chris Kanyusik, Windsor Whip Works    2010

Gallery, Windsor, NY

Enveloped, But Wide Open:  New Drawings and Prints by Erin Holscher Almazan             2008

and Amy Lucille McLaren, The Green Gate Gallery, Honeyoe Falls, NY

Erin Holscher Almazan and Cedar Marie, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN          2007

Passages of Change, Contemporary Printmaking Exhibit, 1570 Gallery, 1570 East Avenue,   2004

Rochester, NY

Selected Recent Group Juried/Peer-Reviewed Exhibitions

Voices of Print, Voices of Power, MAPC Themed Portfolio Exhibition, Mid-America                   2022    

Print Council Conference, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Layers of Ink, St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, MO

Congruence, www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com, juried by guest curator Bridgette Mayer        2020

Which Direction Do We Go West? MAPC Themed Portfolio Exhibition, Mid-America          2018

Print Council Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

Art From the Heartland 2018, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN

It’s Time, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

That’s What She Said, Afa Gallery, 8th Annual International Conference on Contemporary

Cast Iron Art, Scranton, PA

A Woman’s Voice Through Art, Erie Art Gallery, Erie, PA

Identity Spectrum, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA      

Clearly Human III, St. Louis Artist’s Guild, St. Louis, MO

Oso Bay Biennial XX: Realism Redo Painting Exhibition, Islander Art Gallery, Corpus                     

Christi, TX

Negotiations, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ

Press, Dayton Society of Artists, Dayton, OH       

Labor:  Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, Pearl Conard Art Gallery, The Ohio     

State University, Mansfield

Portrait 2018, CICA (Czong Institute for Contemporary Art) Museum, Gyeonggi-do,

South Korea                                          

The Portrait and Self-Portrait, Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery (on-line gallery)                         2017

Gritty in Pink, Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, Pompano Beach, FL

Printmaking NOW, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR

Demographically Speaking, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY

The Artist as Maker, Feeler, Thinker, Cade Art Gallery, Anne Arundel Community              2016

College, Arnold, MD, Juror:  Jack Rasmussen

The Thingness of the Print, MAPC Themed Portfolio Exhibition, Mid-America Print Council

Conference, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN and University of

Louisville, KY

Artist by Artist, Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH                                    

Works on Paper 2016, Rosewood Art Gallery, Kettering, OH, Juror:  Susan Li O’Connor

In Line, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA

7th Annual Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Juror:  Edgar Jerins

 Selected Recent Group Invited Exhibitions

Forthcoming: Make/Believe, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, curated by Marcella                  2025

Hackbardt

Mirror, Mirror, Allen County Museum, Lima, OH                                                             2024

Mirror, Mirror, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH                                          2023

Mirror, Mirror, University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA

Mirror, Mirror, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, OH, curated by Christine                    2022

Shearer 

Pause and Progress:  Artistic Processes Amidst a Pandemic, 2021

Radial Gallery, Dayton, OH    

Duo Trio: Contemporary Diptychs and Triptychs, The Decorative Arts Center,                  2020

Lancaster, OH, curated by Christine Fowler Shearer

That’s What She Said, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA,                2019

curated by Xalli Zuniga and Katie Hovencamp

Duo Trio: Contemporary Diptychs and Triptychs by 14 Ohio Artists, Riffe Gallery,            

Columbus, OH, curated by Christine Fowler Shearer

Inaugural Exhibition, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH                                                            2016

Flux:  Keith Howard and His Legacy, Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology,

Rochester, NY

 Art Fairs

Art Santa Fe, Contemporary Arts Fair, Santa Fe, NM                                                          2019

Prints displayed as part of Execute Project Space, Dallas, TX

Artist Presentations

College of Wooster, Wooster, OH                                                                                   2023

Exhibiting Artist Panel Discussion

Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN                                                                2018
              

Visiting Artist and Solo Exhibitor

Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, TN                                                            2016

Visiting Artist and Solo Exhibitor

Indiana University East, Richmond, IN                                                                            2014                                        Visiting Artist Presentation

Dayton Visual Art Center, Dayton, OH                                                                           2012

Exhibiting Artist Presentation                  

Workshops

Project Jericho, Springfield, OH, hosted by University of Dayton                                       2024

Workshop Instructor, Linoleum Cut

Project Zonta, in connection with Springfield Art Museum, Springfield OH                       2023

Workshop Instructor, Linoleum Cut

Studio 14 Gallery & Fine Arts Center, Tipp City, OH                                                        2017

Workshop Instructor, Oil Portraits

Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, OH

Workshop Instructor, Color Monotype

Studio 14 Gallery & Fine Arts Center, Tipp City, OH                                                        2016    

Workshop Instructor, Pastel Portraits

Dayton Printmakers Cooperative, Dayton, OH                                                                2014

Workshop Instructor, Solar Plate Printmaking

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH                                                                                   2013

Workshop Instructor, Alternative Printmaking Processes

 Traveling Portfolio Exhibitions

EVAC (Experiencing Veterans and Artists Collaboration) Project Exhibition                2017-present

Curator:  Joseph Van Kerkhove

East/West:  A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, National portfolios featuring   2011-13

50 printmakers east and 50 west of the Mississippi River. Curator:  Brian Kelley                      

Southern Graphics Council Traveling Exhibition                                                               2009-12

Recent Curatorial Projects

“Voices of Print, Voices of Power”, MAPC Themed Portfolio, Mid-America Print                2022

Council Conference, Kent State University, Kent, OH. Co-curated with

Emily Sullivan Smith.

“Which Direction Do We Go West”, MAPC ThemedPortfolio, Mid-America Print                2018

Council Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Co-curated with Emily Sullivan Smith.

“The Thingness of the Print”, MAPC Themed Portfolio, Mid-America Print                         2016

Council Conference, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN and

University of Louisville, KY. Co-curated with Emily Sullivan Smith.

Carrie Lingscheit Prints, Inlet Gallery, Department of Art and Design

Artist by Artist, Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH, Co-curated with Seth Wade.

Collections

Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL

Print Archives, Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium

Print Archives, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

Wallace Library Purchase Prize Collection, Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology

University of Colorado

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Nicholls State University

Indiana University Southeast

Tiffin University

Artist Residencies

Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, OH, in conjunction with Mirror, Mirror exhibition.      2023

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Artists’ Print! event.                               2022

Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, Printmaking residency                                  2005

Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, Printmaking residency                                  2003

Select Recent Professional Honors & Awards

Best in Show, Press, Dayton Society of Artists                                                                   2018

Best in Show, Works on Paper 2016, Rosewood Art Gallery, Kettering, OH                         2016

Third Prize, Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, East Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI              2014

Award of Merit, Works on Paper 2013, Rosewood Art Center Gallery, Kettering, OH           2013

Grand Prize, Firmly Rooted, MS Rezny Studio and Gallery, Lexington, KY                          2012