Artist Erin Parish (b. November 6, 1966) spent high school in downtown Detroit in a 5000 sq. ft. artists’ loft with her dad, a professor of painting at Wayne State University, and her step-mom, an art teacher in the public school system. Both painters, they gave Erin her first studio at age 12. Parish went to Bennington College, majoring in art, and then on to graduate school at Queens College. She has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, and Art News.