Erica Lyn Schmidt graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2006 with a BFA in Illustration, where she won Best of Show in their Senior Thesis Exhibition. In the following years she had a solo art show at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, created a large exhibition mural for the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology in Alberta, and illustrated “Dinosaur Discovery” through Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. She also created the reference illustrations for the skull of a new species of Thescelosaurus dinosaur, as described by Clint A. Boyd, PhD.
In addition to creating art, she also enjoys being a mom to her badass daughter Penny (also an artist).