Meet Our Team
This team values honesty, integrity and respect. We are committed to ending systemic oppression. We work to leverage the power of the arts to improve lives and the community.
Kelsey Ritchie
Co-Executive Director
Master of the Universe
Veins run with Margarita Mix
Visual Artist
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
–E. B. White
Jenna Viehauser
Education Director / Marketing Manager
Visual Artist
Rocks unusual lipstick colors
The Bee’s Knees
Makes life a little more spooky and we’re here for it
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
–Rumi
Amy Wightkin
Paramount Events Director / Executive Assistant
Multi-instrumentalist
Glasses model
Invents her own DQ Blizzard flavors
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
—Maya Angelou
Terri Bergstrom
Program Assistant
Jewelry Artist
Wonder Woman
Pumpkin Spice Terri
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.”
—Emily Dickinson
Katie Stromlund
Retail Manager
Visual Artist
Brings a smile to everyone’s face
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
— A.A. Milne
Pen McVay
Retail Associate / Instructor
Digital Illustrator
Happy little gremlin
Antihero
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
—Toni Morrison
Lora Lee Bauer
Paramount Theatre Assistant
Paints in watercolor and acrylics
Desert dry wit
First job ever / last job ever: clean the Paramount
Thinks she is Miley Cyrus
“Explain to me how you having a problem with me is my problem.”
—Dan Pearce
Sarah Sullivan
Clay Cavern Studio Assistant
Aspiring coloring book designer
Yes, she’s related to John
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
—Joseph Campbell
LaTia Childers
Co-Exeuctive Director
Where process meets purpose
The reason meetings end on time
Dancer
“Confidently advance in the direction of your dreams... to live the life which you imagined.”
–Henry David Thoreau
Tricia Adamson
Charitable Gambling Manager
Art spectator
Loves saying ‘yes’ to what life presents!
“… deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don’t get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.”
—Brian Andreas
Gary Gabrielson
Charitable Gambling Assistant
The fixer
Cool as a cucumber
“Well done is better than well said.”
—Benjamin Franklin
Phallyni Korng-Gorham
Tech Crew / House Manager
Office located somewhere in the cornfield
Frequently found talking to ghosts
Nocturnal by nature
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
— Lao Tzu
Kate Naatz
Charitable Gambling Assistant
More to come!
Austin Area Arts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.