Teachers & Teaching Opportunities

The Wyly is always interested in new teachers with innovative programs or workshops that they would like to teach in our facilities. Please contact us today with questions or ideas! art@wylyarts.org.


Deborah Jones	Program Director, Founder Deb founded the Wyly Community Art Center in 1996 at which time she became Executive Director of the organization. In 2008 Deb became Program Director of the Wyly to focus on designing and... read more...
Elizabeth Welles	Visiting Artist and Instructor Elizabeth Welles loves the art of storytelling in any form and playing with the Word, be it on the stage or the page. An accomplished wordsmith, she edited and compiled the book, Women... read more...
Gabriel Conroy	Instructor Gabriel Conroy was born in Colorado and schooled at Central Saint Martens in London, The London College of Fashion, The Art institute in Colorado, and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. ... read more...
Gabriel Liston	Visiting Artist and Instructor Gabriel Liston makes pictures of children taking the world apart from the inside out. He doesn't have to make any of it up, not really at least. Born in Texas in 1973, he was raised in... read more...
Jacquetta Green	Jacquetta Green is an artist/illustrator and middle school art educator for 9 years at Basalt Middle School, Basalt Colorado. Before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1978, she received her Masters in Education Oklahoma Central University and... read more...
Joan Tidwell	Program Support Joan is a former flight attendant who loves floral design, fishing, snowboarding, and gardening. She has worked at the Aspen Branch for 15 years. Joan has taught classes in design at the Aspen Branch and... read more...
Keellia Thurber	Instructor Keellia Thurber is a recent import to the Roaring Fork Valley. She brings with her a diverse background including community outreach and organization, Naturopathic Medicine, teaching and mentoring youth, writing... read more...
Laurie Doctor	Instructor Laurie has recently moved from her home in the southwest to a nature reserve outside Louisville, Kentucky. She continues to teach and perform at Naropa University, and to paint and teach across the United States... read more...
Lisa Kohlhepp	Instructor Inspired by music, movement,and the ever changing cycles of nature, Lisa Kohlhepp expresses her passions through ceramic art and the teaching process. Her energy, enthusiasm and patience... read more...
Liz Frazier	Instructor Originally from Washington, D.C., Liz Frazier moved to Aspen in 1991 and began teaching drawing, monotypes and painting at CMC and the Red Brick. She attended the Washington Studio School, Corcoran School of Art... read more...
Lois Alvarez	Lois has a Masters in Art Education from Queens College in New York. She was awarded Colorado Teacher of the Year in 2000 and has been an art teacher for 25 years. Lois has taught in New York and has now taught for the past 10 years as an... read more...
Mary Morrison	Visiting Artist and Instructor Mary Morrison’s paintings have been widely collected since she began exhibiting in 1989. Her pieces have been purchased by the State of Colorado through the Art in Public Places Program, as... read more...
Meridy Volz	Visiting Artist and Instructor "I love color. My work is best described as gestural, expressionist with an impressionist palette. I use the figure in all my work to express passion and sensuality. My paintings are rendered... read more...
Sandy Hargrave	Instructor Sandy Hargrave, also known as the cake decorator to the “rich and famous”, has owned and operated Classic Cakes of Aspen, Inc, in Aspen, CO along with her partner, Nan Cutler for over 18 years (they have over 35... read more...
Sarah Peterson	Visiting Artist and Instructor Sarah (a.k.a. Tootie Forbes) grew up in Aspen, in the days of dirt streets and no movie stars. She attended C.U. for 2 years and then graduated from the Boulder Valley School of Nursing. She... read more...
Tanya Black	Instructor After years of graphic and advertising design, children's art therapy and counseling, theatrical costuming, jewelry making and metalsmithing, Tanya is happiest in her current roles as artist, teacher and mother... read more...
Taylor Liebmann	Instructor Taylor has lived in the Roaring Fork Valley with h is wife for 15 years. He has taught Adobe Photoshop for the last 10 years. Taylor’s teaching experience includes teaching classes at Anderson Ranch Arts Center,... read more...
Vidabeth Bensen	Vidabeth Bensen calls North Carolina home after living and working overseas for 27 years. Her original screen prints have been exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. She is a former high school art teacher and has taught classes... read more...