Design Bio

Erika Knerr is an art director and designer who designed the Blue Night downloadable coloring book that accompanied the public art, site-specific commission by American artist Kiki Smith, also titled Blue Night.

Erika Knerr is currently working remotely on staff at Stiebel Eltron USA, based in West Hatfield, MA in Communications and Marketing. Knerr has worked as an art director, editor and designer for numerous magazines including Fortune, New Observations, Disney FamilyFun and Marvel magazines. She served as art director of New Observations magazine, a non-profit arts journal in New York from 1991-2001, then as the third publisher of the journal from 2011-17.  

 

Coloring Book designed to accompany the site specific artwork.

Cover Images: Kiki Smith, Constellation drawings, 2020. Double hemisphere celestial chart by Louis Vlasbloem, 1675.

First exhibited for Art Basel Miami VIP program & Illuminate Coral Gables.

Dates of exhibition: February-April, 2021

Funded by the City of Coral Gables, FL

Book Design by Erika Knerr


 


Design Resume

Education

School of Visual Arts

Tyler School of Art

Employment

Stiebel Eltron Inc

Graphic Design & Marketing

2018-2023