Linda Erdmann is an artist, learner and educator. From an early age she demonstrated interest and ability in drawing and painting, in learning, and helping others to learn.

As early as elementary school, Linda's teachers recognized her artistic talents and engaged her in creating classroom bulletin boards. During her high school years, Linda continued this practice of creativity by designing and painting stage settings for the Goldmasquers of Goldsboro, NC, and painting murals in local offices and homes. Linda's formal art education was at Wheaton College, Illinois, where she graduated with a BA in fine art. As a college student, her paintings were collected by residents of Wheaton and nearby towns, which reinforced her confidence in her artistic ability.

Throughout her subsequent thirty-eight year career as an educator, Linda immersed herself in teaching in the US and in Germany, teaching art at the elementary, junior high and adult levels. At different times in her career she also served as a regular classroom teacher, a special needs teacher, and an educational consultant. As a distinguished Lucretia Crocker Fellow for the MA Department of Education, Linda presented Educator Training Programs throughout Massachusetts and across the United States. Even when teaching other subjects, Linda always made art a vital part of her curriculum.

During her teaching years, Linda was as much a learner as teacher, moving on to the next challenge once she had learned to meet the current one. There was little time during this period for her own artistic expression, although she regularly created paintings to hang in her own home.

Following her retirement from teaching and a major surgery in 2005, Linda decided to follow her lifelong dream of being an artist. Just as she immersed herself in her teaching, she began in the summer of 2005 to immerse herself in art. Linda now paints full time and travels often. She finds great inspiration in her surroundings and loves to paint en plein air in New England and in Germany and Austria where she spends summers. Throughout the year, she takes regular courses and workshops in New England, California and Germany.

Linda Erdmann is a juried member of the Cape Cod Art Association, the Creative Arts Center of Chatham, MA, and the Yarmouth Art Guild. Linda's work can be found in private collections in the United States and in Europe.