Big Medium’s 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 in their creative spaces.

Christ Church Artists are participating in EAST 2022 for the fifth consecutive year.  We have 17 artists showing their work; read more about them below.


Marcus “Delmar” Clarke | Website

The intent of my art practice is to redeem perspectives of the nature of God, utilizing light-based technologies and earth-based mediums to demonstrate this, with the intent to invite viewers into a transformative, rooted reality of relating with God.


Shaun Fox | Website

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 | Website

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.


Bekah Goodgame | Instagram

Bekah Goodgame uses watercolor and ink to illustrate scenes of connection. Her work, often silly and surprising, is born from her own spiritual journey, encounters with beauty in the mundane, and confrontation with suffering in the world.  In a style bordering on the primitive and with the most basic of subject matters, she aims to spark hope.


Bev Harstad

My main artform is performance art.  I am a clown. I have graduated from Clown School at TNT Clown college, Clown Camp at University of Wisconsin Lacrosse and other crazy zany places, but it all comes down to this: I love colors.  I live a colorful life. I love all the colors that we are granted from God above.

I also enjoy colors in my oil painting and fused glass. Colors make me happy and I hope my pieces make others happy as well. It may not be great art, but it is great fun.

This year I am displaying my family art – paintings that are of, and for, my children.  I find art as a joy and I hope it gives joy to my family and to others.


Tim Harstad

Art is an expression of the creativity of God.  I am privileged to have an opportunity to participate.


Rachel Hillebrand | Etsy Shop

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 (Etsy: IvySageArtisan)! 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. 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 | Website

Billy Hollis is a native Texan and father of four. He holds a Studio Art degree from Baylor University in various disciplines including drawing, printmaking, painting and photography. His recent charcoal drawings explore themes of Heaven and Earth. Familiar images: human figures, stars, grass, are presented to the viewer yet unfamiliar in how they are composed. Billy aims to provoke a sense of longing in the viewer; to question the relationships between the figures and their surroundings.


Cheryl Kaufman | Instagram

Cheryl has an undergraduate in art/theology and a PhD in Medieval History. Her art is inspired by material objects and images created in the Middle Ages that reflect and explore invisible, immaterial truths. The detailed renderings she creates are the result of constant interplay between the symbols used in the medieval past and her desire to make these symbols relevant in the historically contingent present. Whether using watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic, or clay, each mark becomes an integral part of the whole image or object. In the same way each human makes a significant mark in history that leads to the present we inhabit.


Eric Kaufman | Instagram

Eric Kaufman is a sculptor, writer and spiritual director living in Austin, Texas, and Cloudcroft, New Mexico. After a career as an environmental regulator with the City of Austin, Eric graduated from work and started waking up with images of sculptures in his head. After almost a decade, the images keep coming.

 In the broadest sense, Eric’s art is about creating spaces where the world of the unseen and personal, the world of thought, memory, ideas, dreams and experience, can be explored and examined in the realm of the visible and tangible—spaces for re-experience, coexperience, and discovery.  In creating these spaces, Eric finds that meaning emerges in the making.


Meena Matocha | Instagram

Meena Matocha is a visual artist exploring the space between grief and joy, the place where heaven and earth converge.  Meditation, Scripture and contemplation play large parts in her creative process.  Her current body of work combines her love of the portrait and figure with the dramatic expression of abstraction. Meena’s curiosity about how material contributes to the meaning and emotion of an art work has caused her to explore the use of charcoal, ash, and soil as prominent mediums symbolizing death, resurrection, and the connection to Christian story.  Meena was born to Indian immigrant parents in 1977 in the suburbs of Austin, Texas.  She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, focusing on painting and drawing from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. After a long break during which time she lived overseas serving with a non-profit organization, Meena returned to her native home of Central Texas where she lives with her husband and ten year old son, and now makes art full time.


Rachel Means | Website

Rachel Means is a mixed media visual artist. She received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2018.  She exhibited work in numerous places including Tampa, FL; Philadelphia, PA; and New York City, NY.  In 2019, she was invited to be the Visiting Artist at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX and, in the beginning of 2020, she participated in the Carrizozo Artist-in-Residence program in Carrizozo, New Mexico. Later that year, she released a virtual art exhibition experience – Stillness, What Lies Beneath. Recently, Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture by Aria S. Halliday was published with Rachel’s artwork on the cover. Visit www.rachelsreflections2014.com for more information about her work.


Lily Newell | Instagram

Lily is a self taught high school artist and has enjoyed art since she was a wee babe. She dabbles in the various forms and mediums of visual art and fills most aspects of her life with creativity. Lily has always pursued authenticity and beauty in her work. These pieces explore the bittersweetness of growing up as well as the odd growing pains that come from being a teenager through covid.


Steffani Powell | Website

I am a watercolor painter who focuses on people. I draw and paint as God leads and helps me.
I’m still trying to understand why.
I hope God speaks to you through my work.

I paint people because I like to study them exquisitely and know them better. I want people to know they are seen.
I hope you feel seen here as well.

Painting challenges me and calms me. It helps me pay attention, be present to a moment in time, and draw out beauty and mystery.
I hope it helps you likewise.


Camille D Sales | Instagram

My pottery invites you to enter the place we call home.  I’ve spent the last 20+ years designing homes in the Austin area.  Through hundreds of interactions, It’s been my life’s work to draw out what people want in a home and create space to surround us.  These walls also engage with nature. Blurring the line between inside and out, I’ve always been partial to more glass than walls and show this with windows and organic elements.

I pay tribute to the walls that delineate a home. Through several layers of process using images from my past work, sketches, a light table, a metal writer tip and colored slip, my work invites you to glimpse a place of possibility. Home is possibility and belonging.

Come in, linger and… welcome home.


Caleigh Taylor | Website

Caleigh Taylor is an artist living and working in Austin, TX. She also works as a high school art teacher, holding the strong belief that everyone should have time to express themselves.


Phaedra Jean Taylor | Website

Phaedra Jean Taylor was raised on the rocky shores of northern Scotland, where a love of all things old and wild seeped into her bones. She completed her BFA in sculpture at the University of North Texas.  Since then she has been exploring the disciplines of encaustic painting, and watercolor. She is interested in ideas of play, journey, memory, and belonging. Her work has been exhibited in juried, group, and solo exhibitions, and is held in private collections of various individuals around the globe.  Phaedra lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two children, where she attempts to maintain a consistent studio practice while negotiating the demands of motherhood and the joys of gardening.


Previous EAST exhibitions:

2021: see the artists who exhibited here
2020: see the online exhibit here
2019: meet the artists in the tour here
2018: artists who shared their work and photos from the event.