-- 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.

Robin Saenger is listed in the Public Artists Registry in Florida and New Mexico as well as the Corning Museum in New York. In her creative mind there are unlimited design ideas and her portfolio can show you just a small fraction of the possibilities.

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.

A few years ago, she designed and produced a clothing line and plans are in the works for a brand new art clothing line using many of her original images from the Smilo series.
Strongly involved in her community, Robin Saenger is also an elected official and serves on the City Commission of Tarpon Springs Florida where she is working closely with the creation of a new public art ordinance. She has completed several public art projects in the past and is now on a committee to choose a piece of public art for the newest PSTA facility.

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