Who’s Erica, You Ask?
She’s the one over there 👉🏻 with the pink hair (sometimes). But if who we are is defined by what we do, here’s what I’m generally up to these days:
Graduate School
Earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in the Communication Design program, within the School of Art & Design, at Texas State University in beautiful San Marcos.
Graduate Thesis Research:
Operation Diversify
Scholarly and Applied Research to develop my thesis topic: Operation Diversify: The Power & Potential of Democratizing Design — Adapting HCD Methods for At-risk Small Producers in the Texas Hillcountry to Help Them Diversify Their Farming & Ranching Businesses
Lazy S Ranch
Helpin’ ma paw manage our 150-year-old cattle ranch in Menard County, Texas settled by my great-great-greats. It’s 1800 acres of pure magic, and where our family raises dorper sheep, boer goats, and black angus cows.
A Few of My Favorite Things
I won’t shut up about my two dogs (Bowie, a huge 100lb Chocolate Lab & Queenie, a tiny 8lb wirehair dachshund), travel, traveling to scuba dive, traveling to eat & see art, kitchen experiments, painting & drawing, camping, hiking, BBQ, coffee, listening to music in tiny dives, skulls n bones, and all the glittery stuff.
Dreaming about my last dive trip to Thailand where I had some neat encounters with a banded sea krait and a curious puffer fish!