Mary Jane Glaser

President

1998 to present

Background:

From Walla Walla, WA. 

Education:

University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Adelphian Concert Choir

Austro-American Institute, Vienna, Austria

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, BA Art

Work:

Heath Printers, Commercial printing company, Seattle, WA, Graphic designer

Freelance Graphic Design

Tahoma School District Board of Directors 1998-2019

Maple Valley Creative Arts Council, President 1998 - present

Interests:

Handmade paper making, Graphic design, Choral singing, Landscaping, 

I love my new puppy!

Present:

Continue creating community through the arts.

Gina Kilgore

Treasurer

2022 to present

Background:

Grew up in Washington, Missouri and moved to the Maple Valley area of Washington State in 1987.

Education:

Certificate in Drafting & Design from East Central College, Certificate in Carpentry from Green River College, Associate Degree in Business Administration/Computer Applications from Green River College, and Associate Degree in Accounting from Eastern Gateway College will be completed May 2023.

Work:

Currently Full-Charge Bookkeeper at St Stephen Housing Association, Bookkeeper at Corner of Love Ministries, and School Bus Driver Tahoma School District.

Former Executive Administrative Assistant/Payroll Clerk at Costco Wholesale NW Regional Office, Data Processing Manager at Greater Seattle Printing & Mailing, Owner Dynamic Data Services, House Framer for Quadrant Homes, and cook at various restaurants including our family owned one since age 13.

Interests:

Walking, gardening, baking and crocheting.

Present:

Working on home improvement and garden/landscaping projects.

Bronwyn Brestle

Secretary

2021 to present

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Ed Corrigan

Performing Arts Director

2006 to present

Ed grew up during the 1950s in the small farm town of Berlin, New Jersey. After High School, he drifted westward to Illinois, where he was conferred a Bachelor of Arts by Southern Illinois University. He then settled in Chicago to find a wonderful wife and three beautiful children, still the best part of life. 

Twenty-five years ago, the family ventured farther west to Seattle, eventually moving to Maple Valley, a perfect place for us. We love Western Washington and have never looked back East. 

Eleven years ago, Ed wandered into the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center at fifty-nine. There, he finally found his vocation (Melius sero quam numquam) as a writer of Poetry and Plays. It is there he wrote and staged his first play, The Ave. It is there where he first received support as an artist. Today the Creative Arts Council gives Ed many opportunities to help others create and produce their art—a full circle of life. 

His personal goal is to write thirty plays by the time he’s eighty-nine. He’s only halfway to the goal and is enjoying the ride.

His plays have been performed at theaters throughout the Puget Sound, including The Creative Arts Center, Valley Center Stage, Freehold Theatre, ACT Theater (staged reading). Ed is an alumnus of ACT, Freehold Theatre, Parley, and Salvo Studio Seattle. Check out this list of plays written by Ed on the New Play Exchange

Bryan Organ

Technical Director

2022 to present

Background:

Born in Tulsa, OK. Have lived in Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona, and Washington State and love all of those places for different reasons.

Work:

Have been working in technology for the last 30 years, currently as Director of Governance and Compliance for a global consulting organization.

Interests:

Love playing golf (especially with my oldest daughter), softball, and video games. Been performing vocally and acting for 45 years and love to perform! It is super difficult not to jump in and harmonize when someone else is singing (especially with my youngest daughter). A/V and tech are a passion as well. Spent years building out and running performance visual and sound systems.

Present:

Learning bass guitar and tinkering with percussion (drum kit and cajone) as time permits. Spending the last few years with my girls before they go off to whatever school/vocation they want to pursue.

Krystin Lindstrom

Board Member

2021 to present

Background:

Grew up in Long Island New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan

Education:

Yes: BA University of Michigan, Paralegal University of San Diego, JD National University School of Law, San Diego

Work:

Lots: Teaching here (Tahoma) and Overseas (Australia, New Zealand, Iran), practicing Law, and Other (like waitressing, folding clothes at Walmart, bookstore clerk, legal clerk, and many other etceteras)

Interests:

in no particular order: walk, hike, bike, adventure, politics, watch movies, hang with dogs and kids (my own and other’s), listen to podcasts, cook, garden, read/read/read nonfiction, write, write, write and then there’s talk/talk/talk, and question why?

Present:

Presently Learning To- play the mountain dulcimer, go back to school online, become techie, listen and watch

Jackie Riedel

Board Member

2021 to present

Growing up in NYC meant trips to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MOMA where regular field trips. I felt inspired during theses visits, a future in the arts is the path I felt would be the most rewarding for me to follow. Attending SVA in Manhattan was a dream come true. In the Bachelor of Fine Arts program my focus was in painting. After receiving my degree, I started work for a Mural Company. I was thrilled to work alongside other artist, learning from them, and gaining the skills to make art on a grand scale. Eventually volunteering work lead to joining the team at Publicolor, a non-profit that runs an after-school arts-based program in the NYC public schools. There we would mentor teens while teaching them color theory-based painting and design skills.

Marriage, kids, and family brought me all the way across the country, settling here in Maple Valley several years ago. It has turned out to be a wonderful place for all of us. I was happy to work as an Art docent in my kid’s schools while they were in elementary school.

While jogging on the local trail I came across the first mural completed by the MVCAC. My design was selected for the second project at the tunnel underneath Witte Rd focused on the history of Maple Valley. I joined the Board after having such a positive experience on the project with the MVCAC. I now help Co-Lead the Artwalk and am the Lead for the Paint by Tunnels next project.

Shannon Brannon

Board Member

2021 to present

Christina Grachek

Ex-Officio

2022 to present