Welcome to the digital portfolio of Erika Ogier! 

Here you will find some of the projects, lessons and experiences I've created over the last 10 years as an art educator.  

Erika Ogier is Virginia's Elementary Art Educator of the Year 2023!

Erika Ogier of Salem Church Elementary was recognized as the 2023 Virginia Elementary Art Educator of the Year by the Virginia Art Education Association. Described as dynamic and innovative, she says she teaches art because she enjoys engaging with students on a creative level, hearing about their experiences and watching them bring those experiences into their art. She has taught since 2016 for Chesterfield County Public Schools.

-Chesterfield County Monday Message December 18th 2023

Elementary Art Teacher of the Year for Chesterfield County Public Schools 2023!

The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom. (hooks 1994: 207)