Offri un caffè a Kelly Schaub

Collage artist Kelly Schaub fell in love with mixed media collage and Rockport, Texas in 2015. Prior to this, Schaub spent almost 30 years working in live theatre production and arts administration. She was Executive Director of the Tony-award winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Business Manager/Acting Controller for The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, and Production Stage Manager for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, touring the country with the weekly live radio show. Schaub was a founding board member/chair for Open Eye Figure Theatre, and founding board member for Serrand Epp/The Moving Company. As a collage artist, Schaub has exhibited and taught locally at Rockport Center for the Arts, Port Aransas Art Center, and Art Center of Corpus Christi. She is an active member of K Space Contemporary, South Texas Art League, Nexus Art Collective, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Rockport Center for the Arts. Schaub’s work is in the Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, and was featured in the recent book, Collage Care, by Laurie Kanyer, MA. Schaub was a Rockport Center for the Arts merit artist in 2019, and a merit artist at Port Aransas Art Center in 2021. She was honored with a New Normal Rockport grant from the Fine Line Group in 2020. She received Best in Show for the Art Center of Corpus Christi’s All Membership Show in 2022 and received a solo exhibit in the Kucera Gallery in 2023. She has curated several online collage exhibits, and curated and published several collage collections, with more on the way. She is deeply committed to elevating the medium of collage, and has hosted community collage events in Rockport, and started a local collage meet-up group. She was featured in Kolaj Magazine in 2019 for her work in the local community. Schaub teaches a variety of collage classes online and hosts several creative challenges and events for an international audience of collage artists through her website collage-lab.com.

Buying me a coffee will help in two ways:

1) Collage-Lab can continue to provide free and low-cost opportunities for the international collage community. I host monthly free Play Dates, the annual Treasure Trovember Mixed Media Collage Challenge, Mixed Media March Minis, and an annual Call for Collage Art each World Collage Day. I'm working on building up educational and entertaining content on my YouTube channel.

2) I started this page when I was preparing for a solo exhibit to help out with materials, framing, and all of the other expenses associated with such an honor. I've also leveraged your Buy Me a Coffee donations to create community events that educate and elevate the medium of collage, something I am passionate about. I continue to create, show, and occasionally sell artwork. Continuing to make new art is critical to my teaching. Both areas of my life feed each other and both are necessary. Your support helps me through the months with no sales or the months with extra expenses. It's a comfort to have a little bit hitting my bank account in a predictable manner, as my other income streams are not so reliable.