-- Robin Saenger

The focus of Robin Saenger's art is architectural glass and metal. Robin has had a long love affair with color, light and glass. "Light and color are beautiful and powerful" says Robin. "Consider the stained glass windows of Chartres or the Chagall windows."

Robin graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Education. In her first career she was a bilingual-bicultural instructor in the Athena Program, the nation's first school devoted exclusively to academically gifted children. She started experimenting with glass during the summers and began teaching at a small stained glass studio in Corpus Christi, Texas. She opened her art glass studio in Tarpon Springs, Florida in 1983. Her devoted partner, Milo, a tri-colored Collie Shepherd, made his transition a few years ago, but lives on in the name of Robin's studio: Saenger Milo and in her ever-popular "Smilos".

Smilos are a "family" of Robin's favorite people doodles. Some Smilos are her relatives, some are people she has glimpsed on the street or in a dream. All of them insist on being immortalized. Smilos are etched on glass or printed on t-shirts, fabrics and metals. Her newest images on shirts include Monkey Face, and Flower Chick.

She is currently fabricating a line of necklaces made of agatized coral, and varieties of crystals including brown and black tourmaline, kyanite, kunzite, and others.

Her partner is Steve Corrado, a master of painted surfaces. Robin and Steve have collaborated on some recent work. They exhibited together for the first time in August 2006, at the Blue Moon Gallery in Tarpon Springs, Florida, and currently are in a show at Studio 212.

Strongly involved in her community, Robin is an elected official and serves as Vice-Mayor on the City Commission of Tarpon Springs.

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." Rumi