The East Austin Studio Tour (EAST) is a free, annual, city-wide, self‑guided art event spanning two weekends in November. EAST provides opportunities for the public to meet the artists of Austin and take in their work.
Christ Church is excited to participate in EAST for the fourth year in a row; this year we will have twelve artists showing their work in the Parish Hall and the courtyard. EAST will take place on Nov 13, 14 and Nov 20, 21 from 12:00pm – 6:00pm each day.
For information on EAST in previous years:
EAST 2020
EAST 2019
EAST 2018
Learn more about the 2021 artists below:
Shaun Fox
Shaun Fox’s general curiosity and obsession with craft continually drives him to learn new skills and try new mediums. His background of photography, digital design, and bookmaking come to bear in his woodworking as he pursues quality design and higher levels of craftsmanship.
Jan Florence Garven
Paul Klee helps me understand art a little bit by saying, “Art does not reproduce the visible-rather it makes it visible.” The mixture of various media has enabled me to make visible my understanding of life. I want to capture the ordinary and mundane as part of the larger view I am seeing. I go to my kitchen, garden or local hardware store for most of the elements of my work. These materials evoke an organic corporeality that mimics a familiarity of nature’s terrain. Texture, light and color help me explore the domain of perpetual change within my own body and the material world around me.
Bev Harstad
I paint and fuse glass for fun. I enjoy playing with colors and coming up with an idea and figuring out how to make it show up on the canvas or in the kiln. It may not be great art, but it is great fun.
Tim Harstad
As we are created in God’s image we have been endowed with the ability also to create. Joy, an all encompassing good well secured, is clearly a by-product and in many cases the main point of creations made by God and us. He delights in us and we delight in him. I think it may take a while for us to come to this way of thinking, but God is patient.
Rachel Hillebrand
A creative slashie, I enjoy creating art using different mediums. I mostly focus on drawing and painting (watercolor + acrylic, printmaking), followed by body movement (ballet & yoga), and have recently been dabbling in photography. I am inspired by nature (especially pine forests), and fascinated by the intersection of color and texture/touch, which recently led to experimenting and creating colorful and tangible artisan soap bars in my kitchen! There’s often a thin line between my states of dreaming and being awake, so I love using art as a way to process, as well as a way to feel more in-touch with my physical world. This year specifically I have been contemplating and celebrating the power and richness of the collective, instead of the individual, as well as the power of choosing to be uninhibited, as opposed to being repressed.
Billy Hollis
My recent set of drawings are meant to be ‘read together.’ I have four children and it is difficult to see them grow older. A friend once said to me, “You’ve got 18 years with your kids…that’s it.” And while I know there is time beyond that, these years under my roof are precious and delicate. These drawings of crumpled photographs taken from around my home are, for me, a contemplation on the passing of a sweet season of life. The titles of the drawings are important. They represent my voice, the words of the artist silently spoken while creating the work.
My paintings were part of group shows at Christ Church. I used my children as models to paint from. While these are thematically different from the drawings, the viewer will find similarities between the two. Veronica’s Veil and Show Me is an example of this connection.
Cheryl Kaufman
Cheryl is a medieval historian and an artist. In the Middle Ages the visible creations that we call “art” referenced spiritual truth and stories beyond earthly vision. Cheryl’s recent art is an exploration of these invisible, immaterial truths as reflected in the material world. Is there a reality beyond what is seen on the surface of things? Working with pen and ink, acrylic paint, and clay, her art is the result of an interplay between the ideas of seen/unseen in the present and in the medieval past.
Eric Kaufman
I see my art as an exploration of the order and beauty I see emerging out of the seemingly random and destructive processes of entropy at work in the world. I find hope and wonder in the smoothness and symmetry of a water-shaped stone, the beauty of decaying wood, or rusted metal. My desire for each piece of art I create is that it be for the viewer what art has been for me: a potentially transformative, or, at least contemplative place/space where we, both the viewer and the artist can bring the thoughts/desires/emotions and traumas we carry for examination, introspection, inspiration, and, possibly even transformation.
Amy McCullough
For the past few years I’ve been painting pet portraits, which has been fun and refreshing. My first pet portrait was a block print I did of my bunny Glenn, and since then I’ve painting portraits for others, working from photographs. As both an artist and a former reporter I’ve recently enjoyed exploring “graphic journalism,” a medium that combines illustration and text to tell a nonfiction story. I also love to work with ink and various printmaking methods.
Lily Joy Newell
I’m a high school student and I like to think of myself as an artist just making messes. I’ve always loved to create and now in high school, my various forms of art have become a way for me to process life. Finding beauty in unexpected places and being able to show that to others is a lot of why I do art. I also love how I can paint a piece with a certain meaning or message in mind, yet someone looking at it can perceive something different that applies to their own life: art is powerful.
Stef Powell
Identity is the theme of my work– whether the identities we try on in our search for meaning or those identities that flow out of our relationships with Christ and the people in our lives. I hope those who experience my work allow themselves, as I do, to question the wells from which we draw our lives. What are our motivations? What gives us hope in our own authentic journey when despair is beckoning? Watercolor painting is a joyful calling for me. Every stage of creating— from the photography to the planning, drawing, and actual painting—is a challenge. I think of my work as prayer and I hope for HIs glory. That is my story.
Caleigh Taylor
Creating narratives based around human emotions and life experiences I hope to take things like fear, worry, excitement and the unknown and make them easier to digest and understand. Achieving this through using a visual language based in historic symbols, lore and self made meaning I hope to bring light to the anxieties of life in a whimsical, playful and simple manner to create an opening for relief and laughter.
