Lineage Artist Bios

Erica Hoelscher

Erica Hoelscher is an apparel designer, sewist, and theatrical designer whose work explores clothing, memory, and personal history. Alongside a long career designing costumes and scenery for the stage, she creates garment-based artworks and installations that examine family history and the stories embedded in clothing.

Over the course of her career she has completed more than 130 theatrical designs for productions in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and at Lehigh University. Her work has recently been exhibited in Here & Now: 100 Years of LUAG, 100 Local Artists at the Lehigh University Art Gallery (2025) and in Lineage, a collaborative exhibition with Kristin Hoelscher-Schacker and Andrea Hoelscher previously presented at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center in Jasper, Indiana (2023).

Hoelscher teaches costume and fashion design, costume history, theatre history, and stage makeup at Lehigh University. She holds an MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University.

Andrea Hoelscher

Andrea Hoelscher is a photographic artist whose work spans analog processes, hand-altered imagery, vintage cameras, and contemporary digital techniques. For over three decades she has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, and universities, and her work has been recognized with multiple awards, grants, and fellowships. Through staged and constructed imagery, she explores narrative, memory, and the ways photographs shape imagined histories. Most recently, she collaborated with her artist sisters on Lineage, a traveling exhibition examining family history and generational connection. Hoelscher teaches photography at the University of Southern Indiana.

Kristin Hoelscher-Schacker

Kristin Hoelscher-Schacker is a fiber and mixed-media artist whose work explores preservation, revelation, and the relationships between material, process, and memory. Combining reclaimed textiles with new materials, she incorporates slow processes of natural dyeing and stitching with digital imagery to create tactile works that evoke personal and collective narratives. Through layered materials and hand processes, her work investigates how natural systems, domestic practices, and human histories intersect.

Her work has been exhibited in regional and national exhibitions, including projects with the Textile Center in Minneapolis and the Surface Design Association. She is the recipient of a Jerome Fiber Artist Grant and has participated in local and international residencies.

Most recently, she collaborated with her sisters, artists Erica Hoelscher and Andrea Hoelscher, on Lineage, an exhibition exploring family history and generational connection presented at the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center in Jasper, Indiana.

Hoelscher-Schacker lives and works in Minnesota.