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
Veins run with Margarita Mix
Visual Artist
Interim Executive Director / Operations Director, because Master of the Universe is not available as a job title
Answers phone, "Buddy the Elf, What's your favorite color?"
“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
Visual Artist
Education Coordinator / Marketing Manager
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 Theatre Manger / Administrative 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
Lora Lee Bauer
Paints in watercolor and acrylics
Desert dry wit
Paramount Theatre Assistant
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
Cora Feist
Visual Artist
Retail Associate / Box office / Custodial staff
Practically perfect in every way
Excellent taste in locations for photo shoots
Irresistible giggle
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep… Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
—Ernest Hemingway
Pen McVay
Digital Illustrator
Retail Associate / Instructor
Happy little gremlin
Antihero
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
—Toni Morrison
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
Erin Adamson
Custodial Staff
Award-winning poet
Volleyball and track athlete
Cool as a cucumber
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
—Walt Whitman
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.
