erika nelson


PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

adjucating, advocating, and coordinating 



  • Juror:

  • NEA Our Town Grant panel 2024
  • Nebraska Arts Commission grant panel 2024
  • Mid-America Art Association Interchange grant panel 2024
  • MAAA Catalyze grant panel 2023
  • MAAA Art 360 Creative Impact Award panel 2021
  • Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts Apprentice Program juror, 2020
  • Wormfarm Institute Farm Art Dtour panel 2022
  • Charolotte Street Rocket Grant panel 2017

  • Consultant:

  • Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, Folk and Traditionals Arts program coordinator, Field Representative, Northwest and North Central Kansas. 2019 - 2023.
  • Preservation planning, Florence Deeble’s Rock Garden, Lucas KS.
  • Conservation Corps Special Project, Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston TX. March 15 2023
  • City of Salina/Salina Arts and Humanities, Artists Sharing Knowledge initiative. Facilitation and co-implementation, Focus area: Amplify - Telling Your Story and Getting the Word Out. 2012 - 2013
  • Kansas Sampler Foundation, PowerUp Movement development and launch. 2010

  • Non-profit work:

  • Artist-Built Environment Network co-founder, steering committee. 2017 - present.
  • Friends of S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden co-founder, Cultural Resources Director. 2014 - present.
  • World’s Largest Things founder, director. 2002 - present.
  • Lucas Historical Society, steering committee. 2022 - present.
  • National Focus Group, Wormfarm Institute strategic planning.
  • Humanities Kansas Strategic Planning.