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COST BY DONATION - Regular classes $22/hour (will need to supply own art materials) VENMO: @Juliet-WhitsettSummer Art Camp:Art making & Accompanying Audiobook: Wishtree is by Newbery Award winner Katherine Applegate (Commonsense Media LINK: HERE) MORE INFO ON CAMP:  HERE Ages 7-11 (recommended) Monday - Friday: 10:30-11:30am June 1st

*** NO NEED TO DOWNLOAD AUDIO BOOK- I WILL BE PLAYING IT OVER THE ZOOM CALL***I'm looking forward to hosting my first ZOOM art course with you! I have lots of process-based art play planned. The ZOOM code has officially been sent to registered participants- If you haven't received an email, please message me: juliet@giddyupartstudio.com or tex

My daughters and I learned some incredible facts about platypuses the other day because we participated in Animal Facts Club's Zine project (a partnership with The Contemporary Austin). So much talk about mammals and eggs got us excited about the Easter Bunny bringing eggs to them in just a handful of days. This inspired them to make their own Ea

A recent article in the Texan stated that Texas will be adding 45 additional species to its Threatened Species List. Yes, 45.  As an artist who has been documenting Endangered, Threatened & Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Texas, I am compelled to better understand the growing list. After reaching out to Texas Parks and Wildli

Juliet is an educator with and Undergraduate in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s Degree in Community-Based Arts Education form the University of Texas-Austin. She has designed arts and environmental education programs for public institutions such as the High Line, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Thi

Looking for a way to show your honey some love & help Endangered, Threatened & Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) this holiday season? Think Mini-Painting! This season I am creating a series of mini American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus - SGCN) paintings and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Texas SGCN! 

The Swift fox may just be the most adorable animal on Earth. Every time I show viewers images of my acrylic on panel painting of the Vulpes velox people say something, about how adorable it is.  Because it is! This is one of the reason I am painting Threatened, Endangered & Species of Greatest Conservation Need- To bring awareness to

Bats are incredible creatures... though I had to unlearn so much cultural coding to really understand that... Waaaay back when I was in high school I was lucky enough to qualify to participate in a Save the Rainforest study trip in Belize...  Even cooler- I went with my best friend.  Together we spent one week in the rainforest learn

Want to do something good for the world today? THIS is an easy one...There is some bipartisan legislation on the table that is getting support called Recovering America's Wildlife Act. It will help more species stay off of the Endangered Species List- (Pictured is the only species that I have painted that resides on that scary list. The Ocelot- Leo

A few years ago we camped & hiked as a family in the Davis Mountains... sure wish we would have caught a glimpse at the Sylvilagus robustus aka the Davis Mountain Cottontail. ABOUT DAVIS MOUNTAIN COTTONTAIL“Davis Mountain cottontails, live in mountains of the southern United States and northern Mexico. They live between the Rio Grande River in