SMAC Board Members

President, Programing Chair

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Tenille is a creative arts therapist, psychoanalyst, and professional counselor in private practice in Branson. She is also a working visual artist with a concentration in mixed media, sculpture and stop-motion animation, who has participated in over 50 national and international exhibits.  Tenille also served on the editorial staff of The Psychoanalytic Review, was editor of Free Association Newsletter, and has presented workshops on art therapy and phototherapy for NYAPRS, Federation of Employment and Guidance Services graduate student internship development program, Branson Arts Council, Synergy Recovery Center, and National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Southwest Missouri. She has published articles in State of the Ozarks online magazine, Ceramic Arts and Perception, and Free Associations. Tenille is a 2009 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes its Own) artist grant winner, a 2014 NAMI Southwest Missouri Distinguished Service Award winner, and a 2014 Rockbottom Studio’s film festival grand prize and people’s choice award winner.

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Treasurer, Cosplay Facilitator
 

Born in Canton, Ohio Anthony grew up watching cartoons and reading comic books religiously. He moved to Tempe Arizona for a few years and earned a bachelor's degree in animation and met his wife. The two got married in the desert, then moved to Hollister Mo to raise a family. In Hollister Anthony built a family, a cartoonist career and developed skills as an Accounting Associate.

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Board Member At-Large, Instructor

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Julie has spent the majority of her life teaching art to children, teens and adults.  She has spent years representing art educators and artists by serving on numerous boards and organizations that promote the arts in Missouri.  She has earned several teaching awards including Missouri Art Educator of the year awarded by her peers.  Now retired after serving 33 years in public schools, she continues to facilitate workshops and classes in a variety of mediums at the SMAC center.  In between classes, Julie runs N2Arts studio where ceramics, mosaics, jewelry and fiber arts of various kinds are created.  She sells & displays her work around the Ozarks in a variety of shops & boutiques. Her passion is to reuse and repurpose items that are thought of as broken or junk… stuff headed to the trash are given new life.  Her work is functional, unique & different.. meant to be used in daily life so the owner can interact with her pieces.  

Board Member At-Large, Figure Drawing Facilitator

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For Bruce, being part of the creative process has been a lifelong pursuit in multiple areas including art, music and photography.  For many years, practicing architecture has been his main focus, but recently, he has started transitioning from more technical design & drawing to more artistic drawing. Rediscovering figure drawing, a continuation of skills started during college, might be described as a shift from straight, constrained and measurable lines in architecture, to exploring the often organic and free flowing forms of figurative art.  Part of leading the figure drawing meetups, has been his desire to share this traditional type of learning opportunity with Hollister and the surrounding areas. Becoming a board member has been a fulfilling and natural choice.  

Secretary

Vice President, Studio Coordinator, Public Art Chair

Christine has lived in the Ozarks for over 20 years.  Since 2016 she has had several fine art exhibitions and established a full-time career in the arts, with murals being her main source of work. She serves on the board for Parks and Recreation in Hollister. She creates in a studio located at SMAC with her main focus of using SMAC as a way to create public art and connect with others who have gone through religious trauma . Her goal is to continue to use public art as a way to inspire the young underprivileged artists in an area where the visual arts are easily overlooked.
 

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Board Member At-Large, Gallery Chair, Instructor

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Mary Evelyn Tucker has been a full-time artist since 2015.  Over the last eight years working on commissions for clients, she has painted hundreds of pet portraits.  She loves capturing the unique qualities of each individual pet.  She has illustrated four children's books and is working on a fifth book now.  She teaches watercolor classes on the online learning platform, Skillshare.

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Board Member At-Large

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Being an essentially self-taught and self-directed artist has brought both rewards and challenges for Mary Arneson. The rewards are always noteworthy, while the challenges fuel her inspiration and drive her toward the visions she aims to share. Though she doesn't know what God and the future have in store for her as an artist, Mary plans to enjoy every gloriously creative moment. As she continues on her creative path, she hopes her pieces evoke special feelings or emotions in those who view them. Mary is honored to have others share this journey with her through her art.

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Communications Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator

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Gala is a Missouri native with a passion for nature and a love for the Ozarks hills. 
 

Art has always been a part of her life, even as a child she enjoyed drawing and being creative. During most of Gala’s career, she worked as a graphic design artist. Eventually, she followed her heart into floral design, an environment she contends has less stress and more beauty. She continued to freelance in graphic design and started hand-painting wall murals for friends, family, and clients.
 

In recent years, she began creating assemblages that incorporate butterfly wings and other insect parts into artwork that accentuates the patterns of nature, tells a story, or evokes personal emotions. Her first solo exhibit of these works was in 2024. Gala considers this assemblage work a collaboration between herself and Nature, fulfilling her desire to create art that connects herself and others to the intricate natural beauty that surrounds us. 

Board Member At-Large

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Janette is a mostly self-taught, life-long artist who loves all kinds of creative activities, including sewing, quilting, crafting, watercolor painting, polymer clay, and graphic design. She originally thought she wanted to teach school for a career. After graduating from College of the Ozarks she did end up teaching all subjects for all 12 grades through homeschooling her three children, which she continued on with her grandchildren teaching them art and math.

Her philosophy is, if you want to learn something new, do it! It doesn't matter how old or young you are. As an instructor of workshops at SMAC she continues her love of teaching inspiring others to find the creativity within them that makes them come alive!