Drew Carman

Drew Carman is a multidisciplinary artist and award-winning landscape architect based in Austin, Texas. While pursuing an MLA in Athens, Georgia in the early 2000s, he was introduced to oil painting through the friend and mentorship of renowned painter, musician, and folklorist Art Rosenbaum. Like Art, he developed a multifaceted approach to creative work often overlapping storytelling, music, oil painting, and in Drew’s case, the design of public parks and open spaces.

Carman moved to Austin in 2014 to work as one of the statewide planners for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), where he led planning for some of Texas’ premier State Parks. He then took a role as Director of Park Planning and Design for one of the largest landscape architecture firms in the nation, RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture, where he oversaw the firm’s public practice in Texas for nearly a decade. All the while, Carman continued to expand his body of work in oil painting, sculpture, fabrication and music.

This diversity of mediums, what he refers to collectively as his “design cohort”, ensures his creative ideas have a variety of outlets to be developed, refined, destroyed, built back and finally realized.⁠

He opened Design Cohort, LLC, a creative practice that works at the intersection of art, landscape architecture, and design in 2025.