Lee Ann Garrison is the part time Interim Associate Director at the Museum of Art & Archaeology. She recently completed six years as director of MU’s School of Visual Studies. Garrison is a painter and art professor at Mizzou with degrees in painting from the Southern Illinois University, California State University-Long Beach, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was previously director of the School of Art and Communication at Oregon State University and chair of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has exhibited her oil paintings in galleries and museums in several states and is in over 80 private and public collections across the US.