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Creative Research Laboratory is a site for contemporary art and design, providing a year-round schedule of exhibitions and community programming by students and faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Located at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. in Austin, Texas, Creative Research Laboratory fosters collaboration among students, faculty, visiting artists, alumni, and the broader community to provide innovative educational experiences.






Jade Walker, Director

Home grown in Florida, Jade Walker graduated with a BFA from the University of Florida. Prior to entering graduate school, Walker held the position of venue coordinator at the Baughman Center, a division of the UF Performing Arts Center. She received her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin in the area of sculpture. Since then she has served as an instructor and an administrator in The Art School at the Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria.

Her work has been shown in Taiwan, where she also completed an artist residency and developed and implemented an arts outreach program between children in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Austin, Texas.

Recent exhibitions of her work include a show at the Conduit Gallery in Dallas, TX and Gallery 621 in Tallahassee, FL. She also completed a stay at Webb School in Knoxville, TN as the Artist in Residence in February, 2006 and will be a resident artist at Elsewhere Art Collaborative (www.elsewhereelsewhere.org) in the summer of 2007.

She currently holds the position of Director of the Creative Research Laboratory as well as Lecturer for the College of Fine Arts.

Marc Silva, Preparator

Before becoming the preparator for Creative Research Laboratory, Marc Silva served as gallery manager for The ArtSpace, ACA Gallery, and Gallery Lombardi in Austin. He is also a painter and has exhibited his work in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas.

Advisory Committee for Exhibitions and Programs

Christopher Adejumo
Troy Brauntuch
Sarah Canright
Lee Chesney
Janet Kastner
Bill Lundberg
John Stoney
Chris Taylor

Teaching Assistant, Spring 2008

Alex Freeman

Interns, Spring 2008

Daniel Aranda
Stacy Kirages
Michelle Leedy
Ricardo Martinez
Kendra O'Leary
Lia Politi
Tamara Romaguera
Megan Stroech
Sophie Turcotte