Erik Pepple

Erik Pepple has been with the Wexner Center for the Arts since 2003 and currently serves as the interim head of marketing and communications. He oversees press, media, social media, advertising, and internal and external communications strategies. While at the Wex, Pepple has served as a lead public relations manager and spokesperson, securing hundreds of stories in press outlets around the world, including Artforum, the New York Times, Art in America, Bomb, Art Newspaper, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
 
Pepple helped establish the Wex’s social media presence and was a leading creative voice in large-scale storytelling surrounding the center’s reopening after a major renovation, the center’s 25th anniversary celebrations, and other institutional milestones. He spent two years with Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences’ marketing and communications unit where he established a communications program for Urban Arts Space and served as a marketing and PR manager and writer. Before joining the Wex, Pepple wrote for the pop culture and music commentary website Sponic Zine and coproduced/cohosted the nationally syndicated online radio show Citizen Arcane on the experimental online presentation platform Nibblebox. Once in a while he talks about VHS tapes on the web series VCR Party Live.
 
Erik has a Bachelor of Arts in American studies and a minor in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Arts in film studies from Ohio University.