Originally from Oregon, Robert received his master’s degree from the University of Colorado – Boulder and his Ph.D. at Oregon State. He accepted a position as a biology professor at the University of Michigan and spent the next 25 years there. He wanted to live amongst the mountains and desert, so the couple retired to Utah.

Ten-year-old Isaiah Roberts’s mom asked a friend last April if she would drive them to ArtBreak because she didn’t have a car. She had heard about the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC) annual event with hands-on art activities and thousands of pieces of student art filling the Shreveport Convention Center each April.