The Missoula Art Museum needs occasional art teachers for its after school classes, Saturday and weekend programs and the Summer Art School. We are looking for art teachers who are serious about making their own art and communicating their knowledge of the creative process to others, both children and adults.  Teaching experience and art expertise are necessary. To apply please contact Renee Taaffe, Curator of Education , Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee, Missoula , MT 59802 or call 728-0447 for more information.

ABOUT MAM TEACHERS

BEV GLUECKERT received her MFA degree in printmaking from The University of Montana. She has taught with the MAM Art School for the past 16 years and with the MAM/ Flagship Arts Program since 1998. Currently, in addition to her work as a children's art teacher and studio artist she is adjunct professor with The University of Montana's Art Department. Bev is still an avid printmaker and shows her work locally and in the region. A recent exhibition was at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming.

PATRICIA THORNTON recently moved here from the San Francisco Bay area where she has worked as an exhibiting artist and art teacher for over15 years. For the past year she has taught both children's and adult art classes with the Missoula Art Museum. She is a working artist maintaining a studio at the Ceretana Art Studios in Missoula and has recently exhibited her paintings and drawings at the UC Gallery at The University of Montana.

JENNIFER RUDIO OGDEN holds a BA degree in art from the University of Colorado and an art education certification from The University of Montana. She has taught art at Victor Public School since 1995. Last summer she attended the Teacher's Institute for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

ALLI DUPUY graduated from the University of Montana with a K-12 Teaching Certification with an emphasis in Fine Arts. She has worked as a teacher and art specialist with the Missoula Community School since 2002.

MATT SIMMS studied art at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR and at The University of Montana. He spent 2005 teaching art in Auckland, New Zealand to high school students. Matt is an avid naturalist and fly fisherman as well as artist.

BOB PHINNEY has taught art at the Pratt Fine Arts institute, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, The University of Montana and the Missoula Public Schools Continuing Education Program. His landscapes can be seen at galleries around Missoula.

JEANNE DODDS is a visiting art instructor from Seattle, where she has taught at the Nature Consortium, community centers and the public schools. She has studied fine arts at Boise State University in Idaho.
and scientific illustration at the University of Washington.

BARBARA MORRISON is a teacher and artist known for her colorful doll-like sculptures. She has shown her work in galleries extensively over the past 15 years, and has taught with MAM for 11 years.

ERIN ROBERTS is a certified art teacher and has taught for the past five years at the Bonner Public School. This is her 7th summer teaching with MAM.   

KARL STEIN has a BA in art from The University of Montana and is a certified art teacher. He has taught wirth MAM since 2002. . He currently exhibits his work at the Dana Gallery in Missoula.

JOHN THOMPSON received a BA in art from the University of North Dakota and majored in printmaking. He started carving with the carousel project and designed many of the horses and dragons that furnish and embellish it. This is his 4th year teaching with MAM.