Photograph of Drew Carman wearing a white cap with a rainbow logo, a black t-shirt, and an apron in front of a colorful mural of a woman with long hair sitting among traditional and cultural items.

meet the founder & principal

Drew Carman is a multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning landscape architect living in Austin, Texas. While pursuing an MLA in Athens, Georgia in the early 2000s, he was introduced to oil painting through the friend and mentorship of renowned painter, musician, and folklorist Art Rosenbaum. Like Art, he developed a multifaceted approach to creative work often overlapping storytelling, music, oil painting, and in Drew’s case, the design of public parks and open spaces.

Carman moved to Austin, Texas in 2014 to work as one of the lead statewide planners for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), where he worked on designs of some of Texas’ premier State Parks. He then took a role as Director of Park Planning and Design for one of the largest landscape architecture firms in the nation, RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture, where he oversaw the firms public practice in Texas for almost a decade. All the while, Carman continued to expand his body of work in fabrication, oil painting, sculpture and music.

This diversity of mediums, what he refers to collectively as his "design cohort" ensures his creative ideas have a variety of outlets to be developed, refined, destroyed, built back and finally realized.⁠

Tiny Talks

February 18th, 2025 (Volume 6)

“Drew Carman shares his journey from a childhood filled with outdoor adventures, inspired by his father, to becoming a landscape architect focused on integrating the history and natural allure of sites into his designs. Working for Texas Parks and Wildlife and private developments, he emphasizes maintaining a connection to a place's past, like ensuring new parks respect historical uses and native ecologies, ultimately enriching community engagement with natural spaces through thoughtful, story-driven design.”