Having fun in the office on April Fools.

Name: Wesley

Job:Sales

Experience: Engineering and Manufacturing Management, Technical Sales

Favorite Canvas Press Order: Black and White of my son, Logan

Funniest on-the-job Story: Shortly after leaving Freescale, I went to have lunch with an old friend at Whole Foods. After discussing my new opportunity with Canvas Press, suddenly Kristin and I were being paraded through the Whole Foods offices downtown, and we were introduced to some folks working on the office décor. My first sales call happened before I actually started working the new job!

Favorite Color:Bright Yellow!

Dream Vacation: Fishing and camping deep in the Alaskan wilderness. With a guide.

Pets: Gus, adorable dog and faithful friend to Logan and Skye. Siamese cats Toby and Phoebe.

Music: Shinedown and 30 Seconds to Mars

Reads: Favorite book is Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. More recently Outliers by Malcom Gladwell was fascinating.

Last Movie Watched: Gran Torino – funny and a bit sad, but definitely worth watching

Guilty Pleasure: Sharing a bottle of wine and cooking a big meal!

On a Saturday I can be found: Playing tennis, running, and then undoing it all with a plate of wings at Plucker’s!

2009 Resolution: Try a new career outside of Freescale! And lose 20 pounds. Doing great on the first resolution – going backwards on the latter…

Name: Cassie

Job: Online Marketing

Experience: M.A. Advertising The University of Texas at Austin

Favorite Canvas Press Order: The 50+ piece order we did for UT, of course. Hook ‘Em

Funniest on-the-job Story: I vote Caroline’s story.

Favorite Color: Olive Green

Dream Vacation: Dubai & Japan as well as the Victoria Albert Museum in England. My minor is the history of fashion so any costume museum will do.

Pets: My boxer Mabel Rose

Music: Elton John

Reads: Click, The Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth

Last Movie You Watched: The Reader – Kate Winslet is AMAZING. The moral implications presented in the film are hard to get out of your head. I am still thinking about it.

Guilty Pleasure: All things B Spears, celeb gossip sites, romance novels

On a Saturday, I can be found: landscaping my backyard

2009 Resolution: To see how long I could go without buying clothes. I lasted 2.5 months until I needed sweaters for an Angel Fire, NM ski trip.

Canvas Press recently completed a 53 piece order for The McCombs School of Business MBA Program Office at The University of Texas at Austin. The prints ranged in size from 16″x12″ to 63″x48″ and revolved around 6 themes.

• On-Campus Architecture  Austin-based photographer Blake Justice chose Gallery Wrapped – Colored Border canvases to display his staircase, door and hardware images. He achieved a matted look for his prints by leaving extra white space on the front of the prints. The black border on the canvas sides complemented the thin black outline framing each of his photos.

• Iconic Austin Landmarks  6^th Street, Austin City Limits, the downtown skyline, the Katz’s Deli Cadillac, the Lone Star bus at the Broken Spoke, and Fran of Fran’s Hamburgers are a few subjects displayed in this series. It seems there is never a shortage of quirky subjects on the streets of this capital city.
  

  

• Prominent Alumni  Cheetos Brand Manager Marisa Jarrat and Whole Foods National Marketing Director Heather Kennedy are two alumni whose name, position, company and graduation date are featured on the alumni wall in the main reception area.
• Faculty   “CEOs don’t make, sell, or service anything. Their primary job is to create a culture in which all of those things are done well.”     – Management professor James W. Fredrickson
  

  

• Texas Wildlife  Landscapes across Texas and, yes, lots of cacti. Ouch!
• Students’ School-related International Travel  Students travel to the Great Wall, Chile, Delhi, the Kremlin and Athens through McCombs School classes.

A local courier delivered this large order to the home of the longhorns and installation was done with the aid of a professional framer. Security hangers were used for several of these prints. These hangers are useful for heavily trafficked spaces such as schools and hotels. Security hangers are available upon request.

While I personally bleed burnt orange, as a company we do not discriminate amongst institutions of higher learning and would love to help your school fill its empty walls.

Name: Caroline

Job: Operations – I handle the day-to-day business, customer service, image formatting & printing, sometimes even a little shipping.        

Experience: I have a degree in photography from St. Edwards University. I’ve worked as an assistant for several wedding & portrait photographers in Austin. Now I own my own photography business.

Favorite Canvas Press Order: There is a woman who travels the world with her husband. They always take a cute photo together in front of something iconic where they are. She then has them printed in black and white with red text saying the place and year. She’s ordered at least 10 canvases so far in varying sizes. I can only imagine how neat they all look together and I can’t wait for the next order to see where they have been!

Funniest on-the-job Story: I was the last one out and closing the shop by myself. I went to shut the loading dock door which is suspended about 20 feed in the air. I reached for the rope but it was not there. I looked up and it was neatly wrappe din a loop on the latch – also 20 feet in the air. I’m 5’3″….. looking at even our tallest ladder makes me uneasy. After moments of wondering what on earth I was going to do I called Renee – to chastise her for her superwoman strength – she had flung the door and rope so high. After a good laugh she told me to use one of the long stretcher bars to knock the rope down. Fortunately it worked!!!

Favorite Color: Green

Dream Vacation: Around the world trip/cruise – I’d like to see every continent, of course photographing it all.

Pets: An orange tabby cat, Rudy

Music: I am a huge Bon Jovi fan. I almost died when we got an order for 55 canvases of the band.

Reads: Why couldn’t I answer this a few months ago when I was reading something intellectual like Garcia-Marquez? Now I’m into James Patterson, one of the Women’s Murder Club books.

Last Movie You Watched: W. I finally got around to seeing it and really enjoyed it. Not too negative, not too positive – pretty good job Olive Stone.

Guilty Pleasure: Crime dramas – I could spend a whole day watching Law & Order, NCIS, Bones, etc.

On a Saturday, I can be found: vegging out

2009 Resolution: The clichés – lose weight, get in shape, get organized

Name: Travis

Job: Stretcher Extraordinaire

Experience: Commissioned portraitist and muralist, freelance artist

Favorite Canvas Press Order: Any personal shot, landscapes from around the world, not the stock images of sunsets or what-have-you

Funniest on-the-job Story: We were busy, maybe with the 50 piece Bon Jovi order when the most obtrusive and deafening alarm went off. It sounded like a giant cricket had found a megaphone and was standing right next to my ear. When we made sure we weren’t in any danger, we continued on Bon Jovi for about an hour all the while being berated by the vicious cricket.

Favorite Color: Ultramarine blue

Dream Vacation: I want to become nomadic and explore the entire globe.

Pets: The most adorable Bichon named Finley.

Music: My Morning Jacket & Modest Mouse

Reads: Just finished a Hyruki Morakami novel and started The Gift by Lewis Hyde.

Last Movie You Watched: Religulous

Guilty Pleasure: Mocha, hot or cold, double, single, day or night

On a Saturday, I can be found: In my makeshift studio also known as my bedroom.

2009 Resolution: Go with the flow and if it’s not flowing the way I want it to, changing the flow.

Canvas Press CEOs Doak and Jenny Walker are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Autumn Lael Walker. Autumn arrived after much anticipation at 2:01pm on March 3, 2009 weighing 8lbs. 7ozs. She already has her dad singing The Temptations 1965 hit “My Girl”. We wonder how long it will take her to learn to stretch a canvas. Hmm…..