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Erika de Young teaches Art History Survey I and II, as well as
Design I on the Bryan Campus. She is a recent graduate from the University
of Texas at Austin, where she earned an M.A. in Art History, specializing
in the artworks of the Italian Renaissance.
Erika moved to Texas in 2002 after completing her Undergraduate
work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she earned
a B.F.A. in Sculpture and a B.A. in French. During those formative
years, she learned the techniques of foundry, stone carving,
forging and welding, completing numerous works in bronze, cast
iron, aluminum, alabaster and limestone.
Erika has partaken in intensive studio courses, including linoleum-printmaking,
photography, oil painting, figure drawing, jewelry and ceramics.
While at UWM, she attended two art based study abroad programs, “Sketchbook
tour of Italy” in 1999, and “Pre-Columbian art of
Peru” in 2002. She has since returned to Italy to support
her thesis research on the sculptures of Vincenzo de’ Rossi,
housed at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. At that time, she
also studied at Parola, an Italian language school, and took
private lessons from fresco master Luigi Fallai at Botega del
Buon Fresco, Florence.
From 1987-1994, Erika resided in Europe with her family, attending German
and French schools. Family travels included trips to the Mont-Saint-Michel,
Canterbury, Chartres, Lascaux, Nîmes, Nuremberg, Holland and Barcelona.
Later, independent research brought her back to the major art museums
of France and England. Her international experience has sensitized her
to the subtleties of a wide range of languages and cultures.
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