erica h. saladino

Erica is a coffee drinker, bookbinder, quilter & creature maker in Providence, Rhode Island. By day she is the conservation technician in a rare books library making boxes for strange objects ranging from cuneiform clay tablets to artists’ books. Sometimes she gets to vacuum mold off of 16th century bibles & turn the pages of the Audubon elephant folios. At night Erica sews in a little studio in her apartment where she’s lived for 5 years & has therefore gathered an alarming amount of stuff. Although lately she has been focusing on her art quilts, Erica also sews many things out of vinyl such as bags, purses & wrist cuffs and occasionally makes strange creatures with too many arms & extra heads. There are not nearly enough hours in the day to make everything she dreams up, but luckily she doesn’t sleep very much.

Erica sews on a 50’s avocado green Singer, a 60’s Necchi Lydia & a 70's Pfaff. She collects typewriters, tiny precision rulers, fabric, books, feathers, 50's dishes & 70's board games. Erica steals screenprinted posters, kills houseplants & is terrible about returning emails.