Robert L. Levers Jr.  was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. He received his BFA and MFA from Yale University. 

He served in the U.S. Navy before joining the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1961, where he taught painting and drawing for over thirty years. Among those he taught were many talented artists such as Luis Jimenez and others.

His work moved through abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction before arriving at a richly colored figurative style coined " mixture of the playful and apocalyptic".

In 1992 levers passed.

Named the Leslie Waggener Professor of Fine Arts in 1987, he was also a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. His art in is the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and others.MASCARENHAS, Winston Lee

Winston Lee Mascarenhas is an Austin, Texas-based artist, amateur musician, and retired physician. "As a visual artist, an amateur musician, and a retired physician, I am captivated and in awe of the world around me," Mascarenhas has written, "whether it be the curve or line of a shadow, the rhythmic hum of the wind, the colors of nature, a simple melody, or the heartbeat of someone close." His Kinetic Rhythm etchings at Flatbed Press, published in 2017, reflect this expansive, wonder-filled view of the world.