Executive Director, Sienna Solberg
Since 2007, Sienna Solberg has dedicated her professional career empowering and supporting youth by working in various capacities through afterschool programs, therapy programs and volunteer work. She holds a BA in psychology with a minor in studio fine arts from the University of Montana. Sienna has effectively collaborated with numerous community agencies, designed and implemented fundraising and community awareness events, coordinated hundreds of afterschool programs, organized trainings and professional development, served on the Friends of Flagship advisory board, and was nominated for Missoula’s 2017 Outstanding Neighborhood Volunteer award for her leadership and fundraising efforts to install a community park playground. In her spare time, Sienna enjoys everything art, anything creative and spending time with her family.
Governing Board
- Tom Bensen, Executive Director, Arts Missoula (Chair)
- John Engen, Mayor, City of Missoula
- Mike Halligan, Executive Director, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
- Mark Thane, Superintendent, MCPS
- Stephen Kalm, Dean, UM College of Visual & Performing Arts
- John Combs, Fine Arts Supervisor, MCPS
- Sherry Devlin, Journalist
- Elise Guest, Executive Director of Teaching & Learning, MCPS
- Julie Robitaille, Executive Regional Director, MCPS
- Carolyn Maier, Executive Director, Gallagher Western Montana Charitable Foundation and Morris & Helen Silver Foundation
- Robin Checota, Checota Family Foundation
- Tom Severson, First Interstate Bank
Communications Committee
- Sherry Devlin, Freelance Journalist (Chair)
- Hatton Littman, Director of Technology and Communication, MCPS
- Mike Steinberg, Executive Director, The Roxy Theater
- Becca Nasgovitz, School Team Representative
Advancement Committee
- Tom Severson, First Interstate Bank, (Chair)
- Steven Kalm, Dean, UM College of Visual & Performing Arts
- Mike Halligan, Exec. Dir., Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
- Tom Bensen, Executive Director, Arts Missoula
- Melanie Brock, Consultant
- Kimberlee Visser
Program Committee
- Julie Robitaille, Executive Regional Director, MCPS (Co-Chair)
- John Combs, Fine Arts Director, MCPS (Co-Chair)
- Cindy Christiansen, Principal Russell Elementary
- Carla Getz, Art Specialist, MCPS Retiree
- Seena Demmons, Title 1 Specialist MCPS
- Karen Kaufmann, UM Arts/Creative Pulse
- John Driscoll, Executive Director, Missoula Symphony Association
- Matt Loehrke, Director of Education, MCT, Inc.
- Monica Thompson, Elementary Art, MCPS
- Caroline Patterson, Executive Director, Missoula Writers Collaborative
- Renee Taffee, Curator of Education, Missoula Art Museum
Data & Evaluation Committee
- Shane Robertson, UM School of Music (Chair)
- Liddi Elrod, Fine Arts, MCPS