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Greta Ehrig

Dance, Drama, Drawing, Fiction, Literary, Multidisciplinary, Multidisciplinary Art, Music / Sound, Painting, Performance, Poetry, Prose, Visual / Media

As a Multi-Disciplinary Teaching Artist, I delight in the connections between things. Not only in how poetry melts into music, music into movement, and movement into images. But also in the interrelatedness of all beings – with each other and with the earth.

About the Artist

Greta Ehrig is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary artist with a passion for teaching piano, songwriting, creative writing, and mixed-media arts.

Greta Ehrig website "The Two Pink House on Swinks Mill Road" televised Greta Ehrig website "The Two Pink Houses on Swinks Mill Road" print Greta Ehrig website "Music of the Spheres" guitar & voice ("live")

Featured Work

Photos

I created this literary / mixed-media piece at the invitation of Maryland artist Marty Ittner, alongside other artists from around the country and abroad. Each artist was asked to choose a color plate within Ittner's vintage mushroom field guide -- for adding to, subtracting from, or otherwise altering. On the left side of this spread is a single piece of flash fiction, hand-written between the book's own description of the Russula mushroom. The story is "illustrated" by related images on the adjacent page.
Oil on Canvas, 40 x 30 inches. Image copyright, 1994. All rights reserved.
Penobscot Narrows Bridge

Videos

  • CREATE Arts Center documentary video

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    Videography and editing by Greta Ehrig, in collaboration with Lauren Schlenger, Sarah Straub, and staff at Docs in Progress, Silver Spring, MD. The video profiles CREATE Arts Center, a nonprofit visual arts organization that has been bringing the arts to Montgomery County, MD, for 25 years through arts classes, camps, parties, and art therapy programs.
    Medium: Digital Video
    Year: 2014
    Details: 4:16

  • Public Poetry Reading (2019)

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    April 18, 2019. Takoma Park, MD, Community Center Auditorium. Greta Ehrig is featured at minute mark 35:50.
    Medium: Public Poetry Reading
    Year: 2019
    Details: begins at minute mark 35:50

  • Public Poetry Reading (2015)

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    January 15, 2015. Takoma Park Community Center auditorium, Takoma Park, MD. The Greta Ehrig segment begins with an introduction by Takoma Park Poet Laureate Merrill Leffler at minute mark 41:57.
    Year: 2015
    Details: Begin at minute mark 41:57.

  • Television Interview and Performance

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    A "BackStage Takoma" televised interview promoting my Women Folk project, a showcase of award-winning singer-songwriters from the mid-Atlantic region.
    Year: 2015
    Details: Run-time: 11:09 minutes. Song at 3:49 minute mark.

Music/Audio

  • "Solstice"

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    An original song is conceived as one long run-on sentence. The title word "solstice" comes from the Latin "sol" (sun) and "sistere" (to stand still) -- because at the summer and winter solstices, from the Earth's vantage point, the sun appears to stand still before swinging back into the opposite hemisphere.
    Medium: "live" piano and voice
    Year: copyright, 2017
    Details: 4:07

Booking

As a performer, Greta Ehrig is available for literary readings, songwriter showcases, and multidisciplinary collaborations. As a teaching artist, she offers individual lessons, (preK through college) classroom visits, and group workshops -- in piano, songwriting, creative writing, mixed-media art, and the intersection of spirituality and creativity. With decades of training and experience as a counselor, advocate, facilitator, and teacher, she loves supporting and inspiring students of all abilities and all ages (from infant through senior citizen).

Greta Ehrig has worked with many public and private schools, colleges, universities, community centers, libraries, art centers, camps, women's programs, spiritual communities, and healthcare settings. She is the founding director of Greta Ehrig Arts and is happy to provide references upon request.