Four Austin creatives answer students questions on how to make your work, pay your bills, and thrive in today’s creative economy. Join us for the UT Core First Year program's Professional Development Panel.
Panelists
Sara Vanderbeek
Jane Hervey
Tammie Rubin
Jules Buck Jones
Moderated by Core Faculty, Christine Garvey
Christine Garvey is an artist, educator, and entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas. She received her MFA from Concordia University Montreal, and BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her paintings and installations have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions with Galerie Circulaire (Montreal), Sur La Montagne Galerie (Berlin), Jules Maidoff Gallery (Florence), HERE Art Center (New York) and upcoming exhibitions at Terminal 136 (San Antonio, Texas) and Visual Art Exchange (Raleigh, NC).
Garvey is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2016 Fulbright Research Grant from the Italian Commission, Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship, and most recently, a City of Austin Community Initiatives Grant. Garvey is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice and a First Year Program Area Head at the University of Texas in the College of Fine Art.
Jane Claire Hervey is a multidisciplinary artist and writer, originally from Rio Hondo, Texas. Currently living and working in Austin, Texas, her work is informed by history, wildlife, politics of space, romance and being a bad woman. In addition to her creative practice as a musician and writer, Jane is also the founder of #bossbabesATX (a support organization for women and non-binary creatives, entrepreneurs and community organizers) and her own communications and experience design firm, group work.
Jules Buck Jones earned his BFA degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and his MFA in Painting at UT Austin. Influenced by ecological and biological concerns, Jones creates imagery of bizarre, fantastic happenings in nature, using the past, present and future as backdrops, mythology, fact, and fiction as fodder, and the animal kingdom as the vehicle.
He is a founding member of the collective, non-profit, MASS Gallery and the art / science collective Animal Facts Club. Jones has been accepted and invited to art residencies in Maine, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, the Florida Everglades and Barcelona. Jones currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos. He recently received the Makers Muse Award from New Mexico’s Kindle Project and in 2018 completed a large commission for the new Line Hotel in downtown Austin. He is represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and David Shelton Gallery in Houston, Texas.
Tammie Rubin was born in Chicago, Illinois; but lives and works in Austin, Texas, where she is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Ceramics at St. Edward’s University. In her artistic practice, Rubin is a sculptor who transforms familiar and trivial objects into mythic relics: surreal, dark, playful and sensual. Her works are intensely colored, technically complex, and intricately ornamented sculptural assemblages of everyday objects.
Rubin completed her MFA in Ceramics at the University of Washington, and she received a BFA in Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was awarded a grant from Artist Trust, Grants for Artist Projects (GAP), and an Artist Project Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. She has exhibited nationally; selected solo exhibitions include de stijl Gallery, Austin, TX, Charak Gallery at Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, the Sarah M. Hurt Gallery at the Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN; among others.
Sara Vanderbeek is an Austin-based artist, independent art consultant, estate manager and curator. Her artwork has been included in several solo and group shows nationally. She served as co–curator and budget manager of a 7.2M public art program for University Health System in San Antonio with Allison Hays Lane, in which over 1500 pieces of art, made by over 350 artists, were acquired for two new hospitals.
Vanderbeek currently represents the private collection of Justin Ishmael and Jessica Olsen, former CEO and COO of MONDO gallery in Austin. She was also a founding member of ICOSA, a 20-member artist-run non-profit gallery in Austin, Texas; where she helped develop the gallery infrastructure from style guide to by-laws and project management. Vanderbeek’s latest venture, alongside her husband, artist Eric Manche, is DORF, an alternative and experimental exhibition space located in their South Austin studio.