Strategist Community Leader Artist Mother Working Creative

Strategist Community Leader Artist Mother Working Creative

Reb Carlson bridges two worlds most organizations keep separate: the rigorous, data-driven world of brand strategy — and the living, human world of culture and creative practice.

With 15+ years leading marketing and cultural strategy for global brands like United Airlines, Marriott, HUGO BOSS, Dunkin', and Johnson & Johnson, Reb has built the kind of expertise that moves numbers: double-digit lifts in brand sentiment, engagement, and acquisition, and campaigns recognized by Cannes Lions, CLIO, SABRE, and Digiday. As VP of Consumer Experience & Content Strategy at Razorfish (Publicis Groupe), she has led multidisciplinary teams across social, CRM, influencer, and digital experience at scale.

But Reb's edge isn't just her corporate track record. She is also a practicing visual artist, curator, and nonprofit arts leader — currently serving as President of The Gallery ATX, a woman-powered organization expanding access, visibility, and economic opportunity for artists in Austin. Her work in the arts isn't a side passion. It's the lens that makes her strategy sharper: she understands how creative work is made, what gives it meaning, and what it takes to sustain it.

That dual fluency — in performance and platforms, in culture and craft — is what she brings to the organizations she works with. Reb is available for consulting, fractional leadership, and speaking engagements with brands, platforms, and cultural institutions building something worth paying attention to.

The Gallery ATX

A woman-powered,  Austin-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing a platform for emerging artists from underrepresented communities.  Founded in 2015, we are devoted to exhibiting original and profound works of art through creative collaborations and unique partnerships to reach the broader Austin community.

President / Executive Board 

Working Creative

Working Creative explores art, creativity, and culture through the lens of labor, systems, and value. It’s a space for artists, designers, and creative thinkers navigating what it means to make work—and a living—in an era of platforms, automation, and industrialized creativity. Equal parts reflection, critique, and encouragement for people building creative lives inside (and sometimes against) modern systems.

Writer 
Artist

Creative Practice

Reb Carlson is multidisciplinary artist exploring the juxtaposition between nature and industry, how it mirrors feminine and masculine traits, and the relationship between artificial versus organic growth. Leveraging the classic genre of landscape art, Carlson uses traditional painting techniques with unique perspectives and mixed materials to challenge the relationship between the preciousness of fine art with the familiarity of the modern, developed world.