Erika started teaching preschool classes at Actor’s Playhouse on Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, FL in 2008. While she was there she was given the amazing chance to perform Robin Seidman and Spencer G. Stephens’ original musical Paint! all about Marc Chagall’s background and how he became an internationally important artist.
An acclaimed artist and impressionist, Marc Chagall was born in a poor town in Russia in 1887. The first of nine children to a poor but devoutly religious Jewish family, Chagall displayed his artistic promise early with strong disapproval, particularly from his father. With his religious background forbidding the use of human faces on bodies, Marc developed a style of painting that fused together bright colors, animals and religious symbols in his art creating a fantastic dreamlike world. His canvases are displayed in major galleries all over the world including the Marc Chagall Gallery in Nice, France. Chagall’s magnificent art is also featured in the famed stained glass dome in the Paris Opera House, the windows in the Hadassah Hospital in Israel, and in the United Nations Building.
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