Eric Holowacz is a cultural engineer, poet, and creativity shepherd originally from South Carolina, and now serving as Arts & Culture Manager for Mildura Rural City Council. He got his start at the South Carolina Arts Commission, and has been chief executive of a small town arts council, operations manager of Spoleto Festival USA, and arts manager for New Zealand’s capital city.
More recently, Eric has served as founding director of an artists’ colony in Key West, Florida, and as director of Cairns Festival in Queensland. He has also managed an alternative rock band, lived in a Trappist monastery, and hosted a weekly arts segment for a local television station.
