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 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 expanding the... 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...
Joan Tidwell	Program Support & Instructor 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... 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...
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...
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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	"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 in oils and my drawings are pastels and oil pastels. I... 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 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 returned to... read more...
Tanya Black	Instructor After years of graphic and advertising design, children's art therapy and counseling, theatrical costuming, jewelry making and metal-smithing, Tanya is happiest in her current roles as artist, teacher and mother... read more...
Taylor Liebmann	Instructor My wife and I have lived in the Roaring Fork Valley for 15 years. I have taught Adobe Photoshop for the last 10 years. My teaching experience includes classes at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Digital Arts Aspen... read more...