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About Us
My mother, Vicki Schramm, and I both grew up in Whittier. My mom still lives there (I live in Arizona
now, but visit regularly). She is a teacher at Fairgrove Academy, a parent choice school for the visual
and performing arts and technology, a long-time member of the Whittier YMCA Camp Arbolado Camping Services Committee
and a past member of the Whittier Art Association board. She has always been
extremely interested in supporting the arts in Whittier.
First and foremost, my mom is an artist. She was recently in a show at the Whittier Art Gallery. The
experience, coupled with recently scaling back her work schedule, generated her
enthusiasm for supporting the arts in the community.
I have been a computer programmer for the last seven years
and I have built many websites
(Resume).
I got married in 2004 and had a baby boy in September 2006. Since then, I left my job as a programmer at
Arizona State University and decided to stay closer to home with our son, Torin.
I had always told my mom that I would build her a website
for her artwork. When we started talking about her website, she mentioned that some
of her friends were thinking about websites for their artwork too. Eventually, we
decided that a community site that housed a number of smaller artist's sites would
be technically more efficient, a bigger magnet for search engines and traffic, and
offer a one-stop-shop for local art lovers. After looking at other, larger community
sites for artists, we hammered out the details and built it. We wanted our site to be small
enough that it is easy to find what you are looking for, yet have enough artists,
working in different media to make it interesting. We also wanted to make it easy
for artists that are uncomfortable with a computer and we wanted the site to be
very professional and clean. Above all, we wanted our artists to be proud to
share their web address with the people they meet!
Needless to say, we put our heads together and hatched WhittierArtists.com!
Thanks for visiting WhittierArtists.com!
Cheers, Robin Schroeder
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