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Eric Anthony Berdis
Eric Anthony Berdis
Eric Anthony Berdis (b. Erie, Pa, now between State College and Pittsburgh) is an artist and educator whose social practice work centers relationality, care, and the lived complexities of queer experience across educational and communal spaces. Their ongoing project, " Don’t let them clip your tiny little insect wings, operates as a participatory, multimodal inquiry into vulnerability, resilience, and the fragile yet generative structures that shape how we come to know ourselves and one another. Rooted in queer pedagogies and art-based research, Berdis invites participants into collaborative acts of making, using the metaphor of the bug, fiber-craft materials, and storytelling to reflect on moments of feeling diminished or “squashed” and to reimagine those experiences as sites of growth, protection, and becoming. These intimate contributions are gathered, stitched, and reconfigured into evolving installations, where individual gestures accumulate into collective forms of care.
Berdis invites PAEA conference attendees to join him at the Penn College Makerspace (INSERT DATE TIME, ADDRESS) to partake in a bug making workshop honoring small everyday acts of resistance, and collective making together using tools part of the Penn College makerspace.
Eric has received honors from the Amos Lemon Burkhart Foundation, the Lydia McCain Artist Fellowship, and the DayGlo Color Corp Fund. He has had solo exhibitions at The Marlin and Regina Miller Art Gallery, as the Artist in Residence at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and at the University Galleries at Illinois State University. Random Access Gallery (Syracuse, NY), Project 1612 (Peoria, Illinois), Practice Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), and 934 Gallery (Columbus, OH). They have also shown work at Amos Eno Gallery (NYC), Iridian Gallery (Richmond, VA), Stay Home Gallery (Paris, TN), the Erie Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Delaware Contemporary. Eric has held residencies at Waterloo Art Center (Cleveland, OH), Bunker Projects (Pittsburgh, PA), and the Intercity Neighborhood Art House (Erie, PA). His work has been published in the Teaching Artist Podcast, the Emergency Index Annual Performance Publication, and New American Paintings.
Eric holds his BFA from Slippery Rock University, a post-baccalaureate from the Tyler School of Art, Fibers & Material Studies Program, an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an M.Ed in Early Childhood Education from PennWest Edinboro University. Eric is currently pursuing his PhD in Art Education at Penn State University
Website: ericanthonyberdis.com
Olivia Kuzio
Olivia Kuzio
Olivia is the Lead Technical Imaging Specialist in the Getty’s Digital Imaging Department, where she guides institution-wide advanced imaging initiatives to improve the capture, management, and dissemination of scientific imaging data. Her projects focus on optimizing technical imaging workflows across the institution’s numerous photography studios to enhance how Getty supports imaging for Open Science, Open Content, and computational cultural heritage efforts, with an emphasis on supporting conservation-driven investigations using spectral imaging techniques and technologies. Olivia earned a PhD in color science from Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as MS and BS degrees in chemistry from RIT and Penn State, respectively. She is a Williamsport, PA native and a proud graduate of the Williamsport Area School District.
Emily Armstrong
Emily Armstrong
Emily Armstrong is a multimedia artist with a practice of community-based event production. She seeks to facilitate local opportunities for collective creativity with time-limited interactive installations. Her most recent work is The Bunny Hole, a pop-up micro venue project, which creates a sustainable way to produce free all-ages events.
Howard Tran
Howard Tran
Howard Tran's artwork ranges from figurative sculpture to abstract two-dimensional pieces. Utilizing traditional and non-traditional materials, he creates pieces that emphasize texture and symbols and reflect his Vietnamese Chinese background.
Howard Tran received his MFA in sculpture from Boston University in 2000. He received his BFA in sculpture from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 1998. His work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Howard Tran is a Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor of Art at Lycoming College where he teaches sculpture, figure modeling and drawing.
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