New works by Erin Zona.

Erin Zona is an artist-centered strategist who has been working as a facilitator and collaborator in the arts for over 20 years. Her experience spans multiple platforms, usually focused within the framework of printmaking and independent publishing. Erin is a practicing artist with special interest in research-based projects that utilize archives and special collections, especially those highlighting the influence of radically queer and lesbian contributions to the history of art.

Raised in the South, Erin spent most of her youth between Little Rock, Arkansas and Nashville, Tennessee. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009 and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2002. She has lived in various locations throughout her adult life including Chicago, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, and Bainbridge Island.

Erin is the Curator of the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA), where she works to develop, steward, and expand one of the region’s significant collections dedicated to the artist’s book. Previously, Erin served for seven years as Co-Executive Director of Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.