Hours: Tuesday: 10 am- 5 pm ; Wednesday- Friday 10 am–4 pm
Board of Directors
If you’re interested in joining our Board of Directors or learning more about what it means to be a board member, please contact Executive Director Alyssa Cordova at acordova@glacierartmuseum.org or call (406)-755-5268 ext. 225.
Board of Directors
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Staff
Alyssa Cordova
Executive Director
Alyssa Cordova is the Executive Director of the Glacier Art Museum (formerly Hockaday Museum of Art) and has spent the last twenty years working in galleries and museums in Southern California and Montana. A third generation Montanan from Great Falls, she holds a BFA in sculpture and MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. Most recently, Alyssa was the Assistant Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa, CA, where from 2015-2019 she organized numerous large-scale original, traveling and permanent collection exhibitions, public art programs, and fundraising events. Recent projects at the Glacier Art Museum have included: Terran Last Gun: Piikani Visual Sovereignty (2024), Her Stories, Her West: New Work by Jessica Glenn and Amy Brakeman Livezey (2023), A Timeless Legacy: Artists of Glacier, Past and Present (2022), The Last Glacier: Images of a Changing Landscape; Todd Anderson Bruce Crownover and Ian Van Coller (traveling through 2024). In 2024, she was named the Museum Association of Montana’s Person of the Year Award, and in 2021 she received the Daily Inter Lake’s 40 under 40 Award, She was also a contributing arts writer for Artillery Magazine and has authored essays for art catalogues and journals. Alyssa Cordova lives in Kalispell with her husband, two children, two dogs, and six chickens.
Kathy Martin
Director of Education
Kathy Martin has been an art educator for over thirty years. She is passionate about sharing art and the role it plays in connecting people with communities, other cultures, and the natural world. A practicing artist, Kathy enjoys drawing, painting, stained glass, and cultural art forms such as the making of pysanky. She is currently the Director of Education at Glacier Art Museum where she manages and develops education programs that promote the Museum’s mission. Museum activities include teaching children’s art classes, guiding tours, bringing outreach programs to schools, coordinating the docent program, and working with other organizations to facilitate art partnerships. Kathy is a practicing artist, former classroom teacher, and has worked at Glacier Art Museum for 19 years.
Camryn Mahnken
Exhibition and Programs Manager
Camryn (Cam) was born in raised in Missouri. Before her move to Montana, Camryn earned her degree in Global Studies & Museum Studies at Missouri State University. During her summers in undergrad, she worked seasonal hospitality jobs in the National Parks Service, including at Yosemite & Olympic National Parks. She maintained internships in Exhibit Development at the Discovery Center of Springfield and Curation at the Springfield History Museum on the Square, as well as developed group exhibits for Springfield Art Museum. Throughout college, she volunteered with the Missouri Institute of Natural Science and Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium and participated in several campus and community organizations. After graduation, she made her way east to spend a season as a Parks Interpreter for the Vermont State Park Service, before ultimately pursuing the dream of living and working near Glacier National Park and relocating to Montana in 2022. In her career, she follows her passion of expanding public access to knowledge, whether it be of science, history, culture, or art. Camryn believes that art is an amazing way to connect people throughout time and space, and hopes she is able to aid in making those connections through her position at Glacier Art Museum.
Clarise Sauls
Visitor and Member Services Coordinator
Clarise Sauls is a Kalispell native who has had a lifelong love for museums and art, nurtured by her first ever job as a tour guide at the Conrad Mansion Museum. Many summers of her teenage years were spent working at the mansion as both a guide and administrator until taking a step away to focus on her own art, traveling to the East coast and beyond to Ireland for inspiration and training. Clarise is an oil painter with her focus on Iconography and religious art and has experience doing independent contracted graphic work for local businesses and clubs. She is currently in pursuit of being an art educator, passionate about developing alternative teaching environments for learning traditional crafts and methods.
Candy Stephens
Visitor Services Associate
Carmel (Candy) Stephens was born in Miles City, Montana in 1947. She graduated from Central Catholic High School, in Great Falls, Montana. She has worked at several different retail jobs over the years, and became a Realtor Broker in 1990 which she enjoyed for 21 years. After retirement she became active with a couple of different volunteer organizations, including the Kalispell Elks Lodge, where she also volunteers for Military Veterans Memorials and Glacier Art Museum. In the summer of 2022, she was asked if she would like to work part time for Glacier Art Museum, and she jumped at the opportunity. She has three children and six grandchildren.
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