Erin Lobb Mason is an artist and musician working in Rhode Island. She makes ceramics, prints, and paintings, and is available for regional teaching and commissions on a case by case basis.

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Erin Lobb Mason is a Rhode Island based artist and musician working in a variety of media, including watercolor, oil paints, ceramics, and printmaking. Born and raised in Kentucky, she draws inspiration from Appalachian culture and the natural world. She attended Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio from 2007-2011 where she studied upright bass and psychology, took her first painting class, and met her partner, Will. After graduation she moved to New York City to play music and graduated from Columbia University with a masters in occupational therapy in 2015. She began working with adults with disabilities as an occupational therapist in 2015, incorporating expressive and creative therapies wherever possible, while continuing to work as a bassist and do small illustration jobs on the side. She has played with many bands including 23 String Band, Maiden Radio, and the Outhouse Troubadours, and is a founding member of the Black River Belles, Ginny’s Kitchen, 5 Mile String Band, and The Whelks (www.whelkswhelkswhelks.com).

She moved to Rhode Island in 2018, and was greatly helped by the skillsharing generosity of the ceramics and printmaking communities of AS220, The Collaborative, and Full Bucket Studios. Through work making protest posters she learned about screen printing and relief print and fell in love with the processes. With the generous sharing of knowledge from patient and talented friends, Erin began experimenting with ceramics and other types of printmaking and joined the vibrant Rhode Island communities for both. She now works as an active member of AS220 and Full Bucket Studios, and loves “nerding out,” and sharing knowledge with printmakers of all levels (and in that spirit enthusiastically welcomes process questions and collaborators). She believes strongly in the power of collaborative artmaking to heal and create a better world.

Since 2016 and through the covid 19 pandemic she worked in hospice and home health doing home therapy visits with homebound adults. After much reflection and with the support of friends and family she began focusing more seriously on art in September 2024. She currently teaches printmaking workshops throughout the region and is available for ceramics and painting commissions on a case by case basis. She is also available for scientific illustration, designing band merch (including t shirts, album art, posters), and stick and poke tattoos, and can offer references for each. Erin currently lives in Tiverton, RI with a very supportive spouse and dog, where she enjoys sipping tea in the garden and not thinking about healthcare. To that end she is currently working on a graphic novel about her experiences in healthcare, as well as a series of woodcuts about grief and insect cycles. She would welcome your support.

Exhibitions include

  • Inordinate Fondness: solo show at The Collaborative Sept 2024 

  • Upcoming: Gather RI, portrait of Grace Hopper scheduled for opening Sept 2025

  • State Of Urgency at the Cohen Gallery in September 2020, a collection of protest posters from the Black Lives Matter Movement

  • New Era Gallery on Vinalhaven, ME, 2017, 2018, 2019

  • The Collaborative, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

  • Solo show at Kendall Gallery in Ohio, based on specimens from the by ornithology and entomology collections Cleveland Natural History Museum with thanks to Courtney Brennan-2018

  • Louisville Nature Center, native fauna mural, 2007

Inquiries and purchase requests: Erinlobb89 (at) gmail (dot) com