hI, i’m Erin
artist • speaker • writer
I need you to really hear this: you are more creative than you think you are. You haven't stopped creating for a single day of your life. The question was never whether you're creative. The question is whether you're conscious of what you're creating.
Creativity isn't a gift reserved for artists. It lives in the choices you make, the stories you tell, and the life you create. I'm a visual artist, storyteller, and researcher — a Chickasaw-Choctaw woman who has spent 25 years figuring out how imagination actually works. My talks blend scholarship, lived experience, and lots of laughs. My work helps people become whole, integrated, and fully themselves.
I don't just inform. I stir something deeper.
Ready? I'm here to help you create what needs creating — and disrupt what needs disrupting.
We are living in a world someone imagined. It might as well be the one you want.
lEt’s Work togetheR
There are a few ways we can work together. All of them involve making something — whether that's a painting, an experience, or a shift in how your team thinks.
commissioned work
A commission is one of the most personal things you can do with your stories. I work with you to translate what matters most — your history, your symbols, your people — into a painting that carries real meaning. Every piece is layered with intention and made only once. If you have a story worth keeping, let's talk about what it could look like on canvas.
experiences
Most of us spend our lives talking about ideas. These experiences ask you to embody them.
Through hands-on art making and expert facilitation, you don't just learn something new — you make something with your hands, and that's the part that sticks.
speaking
Most speakers make you think. I make you feel something — and then give you the tools to do something about it.
Equal parts artist, researcher, and storyteller, I bring scholarship, lived experience, and enough humor to make the hard stuff land. Every talk is customized, visually rich, and designed to stir something that doesn't leave when I do.
Some of My woRks
What pEople aRe sayinG
“Working with Erin over the years has made me realize that she is one of the best collaborators that I have had the privilege to know. She works with people in the best possible way—bringing out the best and brightest in them in ways that they hadn’t thought possible—or even thought of at all!”
bobby martin
“If there is ever an opportunity to work with Erin Shaw I am going to say yes, enthusiastically and without hesitation. She brings everything you would want to the collaborative table.”
meg carlile
“Erin is honest, kind, and deeply caring, and it shows in everything she does. I truly believe she has a rare gift for connecting with people and honoring their stories, and I feel lucky to have experienced that.”
zarifa housini
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