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The following article was in The Wichita Eagle...it does say she graduated in 1988, but she was listed as a senior in our yearbook...there is also a tribute to her on the Woman Made Gallery website with a picture of one of her pieces. The link does not work from here, however, if you Google Erin Joslin or Woman Made Gallery (it is in Chicago) you will find their tribute. Erin passed in 2004.
ARTIST JOSLIN FOLLOWED HER PASSION TO IRELAND
BECCY TANNER, The Wichita Eagle
In school at North High School, Erin Joslin was the eccentric artist.
| Joslin, a 1988 graduate of North High School who went on to become a fiber artist in Galway, Ireland, died Aug. 23 in Galway from pancreatitis. She was 33. Funeral services were held in Ireland.
She was born Nov. 8, 1970, in Silver Spring, Md. At age 2, she moved with her family to Wichita, where she attended Emerson and College Hill elementary schools, Robinson Junior High and North High School.
"Her hair, dress, makeup was very much that of the artist," said her mother, Carolyn Anderson. "She had bright red hair - cardinal hair, unnatural hair - that she wore with blue bangs or purple. Sometimes in school, people looked askance at her."
"As soon as she could pick up a pencil, she was always drawing," Anderson said. "She was always very interested in art from the beginning. When it would come time to go on vacation, I'd ask, 'Do you want to go to Yellowstone?' She and her brother would say, 'No, we want to go to Chicago to the Art Institute or to Kansas City to the Nelson Art Gallery.' "
Upon graduating from North High School, Ms. Joslin applied to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She was accepted, graduating in 1998.
"I remember when she left Wichita, she was used to being the very best. She went to that school and was intimidated that everyone there was the best." But when Ms. Joslin discovered the use of fiber as a medium, Anderson said, she found her life's calling.
Anderson said that during her last year in Chicago, Ms. Joslin attended a summer course in Allihies on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland, and fell in love.
Besides her mother, she is survived by her father, Kim Joslin of Wichita, and brother, Ryan Joslin of Galway.
Reach Beccy Tanner at 268-6336 or btanner@wichitaeagle.com. |
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Amy Bugni (Herrmann)
I didn't stay in touch with Erin after high school, and I wish I had. We used to carpool to John Oehm's studio for painting lessons our senior year. She introduced me to the Sugar Cubes and the Smiths, for which I'll always be grateful. She was incredibly intelligent, talented, and had a huge heart.