Staff

Laura Stubbins

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Laura Stubbins joined Art From the Streets as Executive Director in 2026. Stubbins is an accomplished nonprofit executive with expertise in organizational leadership, revenue development, strategic partnerships, program management, marketing, communications, and events. Prior to joining Art From the Streets, she spent more than a decade with the Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, serving in leadership roles including Managing Director and Interim Executive Director. Her experience also includes consulting with nonprofit organizations on strategic growth, revenue development, communications, and organizational effectiveness. Stubbins holds a Master of Fine Arts in Bilingual Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Communications from St. Edward’s University, and has completed doctoral studies in transformational leadership at Concordia University.

Adelle Tippetts

Outreach Program Coordinator

Born in Austin and a proud Longhorn, Adelle Tippetts first came to Art From The Streets as a volunteer, joined as an intern in 2025, and became Outreach Program Coordinator in 2026. Leadership had long hoped to extend AFTS's Open Studio to shelters and navigation centers across Austin, and Adelle worked alongside them to launch Outreach. An artist herself, she is passionate about creating neutral community spaces, accessible to all, where everyone feels safe and valued no matter their housing situation. Like dancing in a crowded room, art is easier to make when others are creating around you.

Adelle holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Certificate in Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship from The University of Texas at Austin, which fuels her passion for building sustainable programs that offer consistent community spaces and resources. Her background includes research, teaching, and nonprofit advocacy with The Borgen Project. In her free time, she loves making collage, visiting museums, and seeing live music around Austin. She is excited to see how she can further AFTS's mission, expand its impact, and reach more people who are unhoused, through art.

Arianna Baptiste

Outreach Facilitator

Arianna earned her BA in Studio Art from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in 2020, and later her MA in Art Education from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on community-based programs. She has worked with many audiences; as a gallery assistant at the Blanton Museum of Art, an education intern with Landmarks public art program at UT, volunteering with BiG, a program working with adults with disabilities; as well as serving overseas at the Moria refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece back in 2018. She combined her love of service and the arts volunteering in the Art House at the Community First! Village in 2022 and working with Art From The Streets through AmeriCorps this past year, building curriculum for the Studio and Outreach Program.

She is currently working with the Trinity Center through another service year with AmeriCorps, hoping to learn more about the nonprofit sector and the resources available to our unhoused neighbors. Arianna enjoys going to coffee shops, joining free classes and reading at various library branches, doing neurographic art, or chilling at home with her chihuahua Shiba.

She is happy to be back assisting with the Outreach Program so she can serve the unhoused through multiple outlets, and have more time to create!