About mE

Erin Shaw  is a visual artist, storyteller, and researcher. She is an international speaker on creativity and imagination, indigenous identity, and art. Her talks blend scholarship, lived experience, lots of laughs and visual narrative. Her work helps people harness their creativity as a powerful tool for integration and connection.

Shaw is a painter of borderlands, the spaces between worlds. As a visual storyteller, the child of an Oklahoma farm, Shaw tills the rich soil of dichotomy through her masterful uses of color, iconography, and story. As a Chickasaw-Choctaw artist, she creates in a state of tension, suspended between two worlds where both solemnity and humor pervade her art. She finds that truths are revealed in unanticipated ways, and trickster often appears throughout her work.

 For 20 years she has immersed herself in rigorous research about the power of stories and how to live into more meaningful and healthy personal and collective narratives.  Shaw is particularly passionate about people becoming whole, integrated humans knowing that when this takes place their personal, work and collective life is bettered.

 The artist earned her BFA in studio art from Baylor University and her MFA from the University of Oklahoma. She has over 25 years of educational experience is an international speaker, researcher and writer.