Summer 2025 Faculty
Faith Morrison is the Director of the Creative Pulse Graduate Program in the College of the Arts and Media, and on faculty in the School of Theatre and Dance at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. She holds an MFA in Modern Dance from the University of Oregon, and a BA in Dance and Mathematics from the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. Prior to teaching at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, Faith served as the Artistic Director of Dance at Willamette University. She has danced professionally throughout the Pacific Northwest and performed on stages internationally. Her choreographic research combines elements of site-specific dance and screendance to investigate the creation and conveyance of a kinesthetic experience of place. With interests ranging across several disciplines, Faith is passionate about the practice of interdisciplinary education and the creation of arts-integrated curricula.
H. Rafael Chacón
received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in art history with honors from the University of Chicago. Dr. Chacón is the Bruce and Suzanne Crocker Director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture and has spearheaded the construction of the museum’s first permanent home in its 130+year history. He is Professor of Art History and Criticism in the School of Visual and Media Arts at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ where he teaches graduate and museum studies courses.
Dr. Chacon’s research lies in American architectural history, historic preservation, Montana history, especially its visual arts, and vexillology or the study of flags. Chacón lectures worldwide on art history, criticism, and culture both at academic conferences and as an expert for Smithsonian Journeys which has named him one of its “Top Ten Lecturers.”
Brooklyn Draper is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the School of Theatre and Dance at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. She received her MFA from the University of Utah in 2019 and in 2012 she received a Post-Graduate degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London, UK. While attending the University of Utah, she received a Certification as a Laban Movement Analyst through the Integrated Movement Studies program. Brooklyn has had the honor to teach, perform, and choreograph nationally and internationally.
Steven Krutek studied art at Colorado College, the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ (MFA), SALT Institute for Documentary Field Studies, and with photographer Stuart Klipper. He teaches drawing, two-dimensional foundations, photography courses, painting courses, art history courses, and art education courses at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. He has also taught elementary and secondary Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ in various capacities since 1997. He has exhibited work throughout the Inland Northwest and internationally. His work has also recently been published on the cover of The Sun Magazine. When he isn’t teaching, making art, or spending time with his family, Steven performs Balinese music with the Missoula-based community gamelan, Manik Harum.
Charlie Oates
Charlie Oates is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego where he served as department chair and, in 2016, received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award. He has worked professionally as a performer, director and teacher since 1976, plying his trade in theatres and schools throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. His plays for young audiences have toured extensively in the U.S and New Zealand and his work as a movement coach and fight choreographer has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, The Mixed Blood, The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, San Diego Rep, Chautauqua Theatre Company and the Denver Center Theatre Company. In 2025, he’ll be working on productions in New York and Minnesota.
Marc Moss
Tell Us Something Executive Director Marc Moss was professionally trained as an English educator and was certified in 1995 to teach English 7-12 in the state of Ohio. Marc settled in Missoula in 2003 by way of Yellowstone National Park where he was a park ranger for 7 seasons. Marc has been cultivating personal storytelling in Missoula since 2011 with the popular storytelling program and nonprofit Tell Us Something. He brings his expertise in storytelling to recruiting storytellers and to the story coaching workshops that he requires of each storyteller before each Tell Us Something event. Marc has been a teaching artist in the Spark! Arts program in Missoula since 2017. In the spring/summer of 2020, Marc participated in the Artists in Education Course: Designing Residencies for Students presented by Focus 5, Inc. Marc successfully worked with Maribeth Rothwell to team teach storytelling in the classroom to the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ of Creative Pulse in the summer of 2020 during an intense week of online learning. Marc returned to The Pulse in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and looks forward to working with participants once again in 2024.
Steve Kalling
Steve Kalling has an MFA in Creative Writing and is a practicing Musician. He has a diverse classroom teaching background spanning the K-12 environments along with extensive time in post-secondary settings in English, Education and Fine Arts. He spends summers on a fire tower in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness area and winters guiding interactive independent writing projects for C.P. graduate Ñý¼§Ö±²¥.
Bryan Curt Kostors is a composer of diverse and evocative music for orchestra, chamber groups, electronics, multimedia, dance, film, choir, and soloists. The drastic and contrasting landscapes of the American West – desert, basin and range, high mountain peaks, ocean coast – play a prominent role in Kostors’ music. A central element of Bryan’s work is the exploration of how place affects sound, visuals, and emotional interpretation, and how the history, landscape, or social aspects of a given geography can be used to create artwork that speaks to a wide and varied audience. Much of Bryan’s work seeks to expand and develop compositional techniques for electronics, electroacoustic music, and multimedia. Recent works explore the combination of live visuals and music performance. Bryan’s research and performance work with electronics address the challenges and opportunities inherent in developing and scoring music for modular synthesizer, as well as programming electroacoustic music in a variety of formats. Bryan is currently the department chair of music composition and music theory at the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ School of Music. His music has been performed internationally by chamber groups and orchestras, and his film and commercial music work has earned awards in America and Europe.
Lizzi Juda
Lizzi Juda has over 25 years experience teaching improvisational movement classes, expressive arts groups, community rituals and retreats. She is founder and lead facilitator of Turning the Wheel Missoula, a nonprofit that builds vibrant, healthy community through creative expression. She has worked with diverse groups, including teachers, youth mentors, parents, prison guards, survivors of domestic abuse, counselors, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ with special needs, elders, and youth ages preschool through college. She is a mother, dancer, massage practitioner, community organizer, and musician and is passionate about providing opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to play, move, and connect deeply with themselves and their creative spirit.
Jordan Dehline Burt
Jordan Dehline Burt is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and author based in Missoula, Montana. She has a BFA in Dance Studio Teaching and Choreography/Performance from the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ and has taught dance in a variety of environments, including private studios, public schools, and university settings. Jordan teaches dance integrated with the K-5 core curriculum in Missoula County Public Schools and is the co-author of the textbook Dance Integration: 36 Dance Lesson Plans for Science and Mathematics.