Green A Studios

Christyn Overstake and Robin Baker as Green A Studios in 2014. They create works that elucidate the human actions causing the current mass extinction crisis as well as the actions being taken to mitigate industrial civilization’s effect on planetary biodiversity.

Christyn Overstake is an artist living and working in the United States. She is an open environmentalist and environmental activist, informed by her educational background and research into sustainability, environmental studies, and ecology. Her background as a certified welder/fabricator in manufacturing informs her material and process decisions, as well as her conceptual and philosophical frameworks. She works primarily in metal foundry and fabrication processes, producing an evolving series of experimental, conceptual objects. She received her BFA in sculpture from Northern Arizona University, and her MFA in sculpture from Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States.

Robin Baker is an artist and educator working in central Oklahoma. Baker's personal work explores the lack of connection between industrial society and the rest of the planet. Through the juxtaposition of human and natural forms using industrial and natural materials, He strives to reveal this disconnection and add to the conversation about the destruction necessary to sustain the industrial way of life. Baker received his BA in Photojournalism from the University of Kentucky and his MFA in Sculpture form Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In addition to photography and sculpture Baker also works printmaking and ceramics. Baker has shown, given talks, and taught workshops throughout the United States, and is currently Teaching Assistant Professor of Art at Oklahoma State University.