Kyle Hobratschk, Founder & Executive Director

January 15, 2023

Kyle Hobratschk is a painter, furniture maker and intaglio printmaker. His engagement with Corsicana began in 2012, when he purchased and began preserving the decommissioned 1890s Odd Fellows Lodge to establish studio space and a wood shop under the name 100 West. Kyle developed the international residency at 100 West in 2015 with support from a small collective of artists and writers, and opened its nonprofit, the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency in 2018, which has expanded from the 100 West building into a collection of historic sites and collaborative programming.

In his Corsicana studio Kyle pursues printmaking and drafting practices in combination with woodwork across the street on 100W’s ground floor. In 2020 he opened Anteroom, a window-front exhibition space in front of his studio to disseminate residents’ work and fine craftsmanship.

Lou Michaels, Residency Coordinator

January 15, 2023

Lou Michaels’ eclectic background has brought her to the perfect point of balance in her life and in her work. After graduating with a theater degree at a small college in Illinois, Lou paid her dues waiting tables until her acting breakthrough in Dallas in theater, film and television. She was President of Women in Film/Dallas and taught movement at KD Conservatory. All of this led her to a career in Broadcast News talent coaching nationally and internationally plus coaching Corporate Executives on engaging delivery and demeanor. She retired from Talent Dynamics in 2022 and began her most fulfilling work to date - as Residency Coordinator and bookstore manager at Corsicana Residency Storefront. La dolce vita!

Trey Burns, Video Documentarian

January 15, 2023

Trey Burns is a lens-based artist, writer, and co-director of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park based in Dallas, TX. His writing and photography has recently been published in the Nasher Magazine, Southwest Contemporary, and Burnaway. In general, the work looks in a self conscious documentary-style towards complex landscapes that are gnarled or interlaced. Recent projects favor site-response, and often create multimedia architecture for collaboration and collectivity. Burns is currently serving as a Lecturer in New Media at the University of North Texas.

Eve Hill-Agnus, Communications Manager

December 31, 2022

Andy Anzollitto, Type Designer

December 30, 2022

Andy Anzollitto is a designer specializing in graphic design, type design, lettering, brand identity and strategy, packaging, and book design. His favorite projects are research-driven designs made in partnership with thoughtful people working to make something special. Recent, notable work includes the typefaces Montecatini Pro and TXC Pearl, and the design and development of the book, Vintage Graphic Design, published by Allworth Press.

Andy grew up in the Texas Hill Country, earned a BFA from Baylor University, and has over 10 years of experience in commercial graphic design with a focus on branding and typography. After running his own Texas-based design studio, Andy moved to New York City to work at Louise Fili Ltd as a senior designer for six years. Now Andy is a co-founder and partner of the type foundry, Tipofili.

As part of his design practice, Andy has guest lectured, critiqued, and taught workshops at universities across the United States such as NYU, Penn State, University of Texas, Baylor University, and School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has also been a mentor in the Alphabettes Mentorship Program.

Alysia Nicole Harris, Book Club

February 05, 2021

Alysia Nicole Harris is a poet, linguist, and teaching-artist. She received her PhD in linguistics from Yale University and her MFA in poetry from NYU. Alysia has spent over a decade performing nationally and internationally, including at the UN, the US Embassies in Jordan and Ukraine, and The National Theatre. Her performances have garnered over 5 million views on YouTube.

Since 2016, Alysia has worked with an array of nonprofit organizations in program development and mission-based consulting. In addition to serving as CAWR's director of public programs, she also serves as arts & soul editor for Scalawag Magazine and theology editor at EcoTheo Review. She is currently working on her next book.

Ryne Eaton, Storefront Associate

January 28, 2021

Victoria Wright, Storefront Associate

January 14, 2021