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CAROLE ROBBERSON
The Art Pad is the creative project of artist and teacher, Carole Schatz Robberson. Carole studied art at Grinnell College in Iowa and The University of Wisconsin in Madison. Jobs in graphic design, medical illustration, darkroom photography, and gallery sales provided valuable work experience after college, but it was through motherhood that Carole found the fun side of art and the rewards of teaching. After a few years of on-the-job training in public schools, Carole taught after-school art classes at J's Art Studio and 4 years of K-1 art at Solomon Schechter Academy in Dallas. Before moving with her family to Austin in January of 2005, Carole established the art program for 1st -8th grade students at Torah Day School of Dallas and taught art classes in her home, The Art House.
ISMAEL CAVAZOS
With an update to Alexander Cozens' "The Cozens Method" entitled The Cavazos Method, the artist has fashioned a new pair of glasses through which to see the art world. This has given way to whole new approaches to painting and carving! In painting, picking up where Jackson Pollock left off, Ismael has created the Universal Painting Project, finding images in drip paintings of his own as well as those of Pollock. In sculpture, Ismael finds himself the first artist in the world to carve peanuts as an artform, which has given rise to the mythological character Old Man in the Peanut. Between selling drawings on peanuts at Lucky Lizard and teaching Art In A Nutshell at the Art Pad, one can catch up with the artist at one of his exciting Scribble Sessions mostly in Austin but also in Houston. The artist has lived in Austin since 1994 and has a B.F.A. from the University of Texas.
Click here for Ismael's web site.
The Cavazos Method
Universal Painting Project
Scribble Sessions
EMILY BOLT
Emily Bolt is a recent graduate of the University of Texas, Austin where she studied art, creative writing, and philosophy. Emily was an art instructor at the Dougherty Arts Center for three years before joining The Art Pad staff in 2009 as Summer Camp Director and instructor. Emily believes strongly in the therapeutic healing powers of the creative process and the confidence and self-awareness we develop through art. Acting on her convictions, Emily facilitated murals with at-risk youth at several Austin middle schools through Communities in Schools and then went on to work as a therapeutic child care specialist at the Helping Hand Home for Children. In her studio, she puts no limits on the medium she will work with, creating mostly surreal paintings and drawings.
BRIDGET QUINN
Quinn is an Austin based mixed media artist. Before moving to Austin she received a BFA in Integrated Studio Arts from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She has taught children and adults in a variety of media, including drawing, pottery, cartooning, and outdoor art and video. She enjoys learning about how others use art as an act of communication. She also works at the Beverly Sheffield Education Center (a satellite location of the Austin Nature and Science Center) where she is designing and fabricating a new exhibit. Bringing art into everyday life and unexpected places is an ongoing goal with her work.
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KRIS DUNHAM
Ever since she was a little girl Kris Dunham new her life needed to involve art. Whether drawing a well-portioned diagram or doodling on her homework, she loved art and thought it only made sense that she follow her passion. She went to college at Rochester Institute of Technology for graphic design and illustration. After graduating she felt like a piece of her art future was missing. While still in love with art, she felt she loved it ALL and therefore couldn’t find a focus. Thankfully, she found out that she could stay at RIT and get her masters in teaching. Teaching became her muse and focus. Now Kris specializes in digital art and teaches at Gullett Elementary. She is excited to be a part of Austin’s art-loving community.
EMILY LEAMAN
Emily Leaman is an art teacher with a passion for clay. She grew up on the east coast, where she went to school and got degrees in both Art and Art Education. She has been living in Austin for the past two years. In addition to working with clay, Emily also enjoys painting and making jewelry. She is currently teaching at The Capital School.
HEIDI SCHLENK
Heidi Schlenk is a practicing artist with interests in photography, painting, collage and textile work. She earned a BA in Photojournalism from UT/Austin and currently works as a freelance photographer as well as an art teacher at Flatbed Press, The Art School at Laguna Gloria, and other Austin locales.
KATHARINE TURNER MAYS
Using a complicated sequence of glazes to create luminous paintings, Katharine employs the same techniques used by Rembrandt and other Old Masters from this period. Kate is passionate about passing on this not so well known art form and has been doing so here in Austin for the past eight years, at various Studios and Art Schools. Having studied under the great Dr. David Cranswick in London, he told her to paint like this for five years and then she’d be ready to pass it on- and that’s what she did. She currently exhibits pieces for the Bishop of Austin, at The Pastoral Centre Sacred Art Gallery.
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