Rebecca Wustrau, Executive Director

Rebecca received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University and pursued a minor in Math and Art.  She has been working at a local high tech company for several years and has had a successful engineering and management career for over a decade.  But now as a mother of three, Rebecca is reuniting with her lifelong passion of art, focusing on educating children and pursuing a career that will give back to the community.  Throughout her scholastic years, Rebecca developed her artistic talents.  Even as she chose to pursue a career based on her strengths in math and science, Rebecca continued with her art as a means to explore her creative thinking and sharpen her ability to focus and solve problems.  It is this foundation in art that Rebecca attributes many of her personal and career successes.  The key to engineering is problem solving.  Most high tech careers are chaotic at best and require employees to manage ambiguity, maintain diversity, envision the possibilities and achieve goals by solving problems.  Through her engineering management career and her artistic endeavors, Rebecca became more aware of the dramatic need for more creativity-based education for our children to expand their thinking, build their confidence and strengthen their ability to solve problems.  Unfortunately, many of the school systems are moving further away from education in the arts.  KidzArtŪ has given Rebecca the career she believes in.  It has enabled her to combine her technical background and past experiences with her love of teaching and ability to foster creativity.

Albert Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."  KidzArtŪ is the perfect guide for creative thinking and opening up those imaginations.

 

Meet Our Certified Instructors
Kathy Armus, Certified Instructor
 Kathy Armus graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis on art education and Texas teacher certification. She has taught in the Del Valle and Austin public schools, as well as private schools in the Houston area. For the past 17 years she has enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom.  During this time she has taught art to both adults and children in her home and has continued creating and selling her own watercolor paintings. 

Kathy has also been involved for many years with Art Volunteers in the Classroom in the Round Rock ISD, teaching art history and appreciation to students as a volunteer.

She is a Certified Kidzart Instructor and enjoys working with children and sharing her love of art.