Winter 2024 Hours: Tuesday: 11 am- 5 pm ; Wednesday- Saturday 11 am–4 pm
Winter 2024 Hours: Tuesday: 11 am- 5 pm ; Wednesday- Saturday 11 am–4 pm
If you’re interested in joining our Board of Directors or learning more about what it means to be a board member, please contact Executive Director Alyssa Cordova at director@hockadaymuseum.com or call (406)-755-5268 ext. 225.
Alyssa Cordova
Executive Director
Alyssa Cordova has served the Executive Director of the Hockaday Museum of Art since 2019 and has spent the last twenty years working in galleries and museums. She is an arts leader, artist, writer, curator, hiker, and educator with a particular emphasis on emerging artists, museum collections, research, arts education, community partnerships, and interdisciplinary collaborations. A third generation Montanan, she later moved to Southern California, receiving her BFA in sculpture and MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. In 2009, she formed a curating collective, Sixpack Projects, whose mission is to support emerging artists through exhibitions and programs in unconventional spaces. Most recently, Alyssa was the Assistant Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA for 6 years, where she organized numerous large-scale original, traveling and permanent collection exhibitions, public art programs, organized fundraising events, and curated several solo exhibitions. Recent projects at the Hockaday have included: A Timeless Legacy: Artists of Glacier, Past and Present (2022) Montana Is My Home: Benefit Dinner and Auction (2021), Roads Well Traveled-Some Were Gravel: Linda Tippetts Retrospective (2021), The Last Glacier: Images of a Changing Landscape; Todd Anderson Bruce Crownover and Ian Van Coller (2021), Plein Air Glacier: Paint Out and Online Auction (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). She is also a former contributing arts writer for Artillery Magazine and has written essays for art catalogues and journals. Alyssa Cordova lives in Kalispell with her husband, two young children, and too many pets.
Kathy Martin
Director of Education
Kathy Martin has been an art educator for over thirty years. She is passionate about sharing art and the role it plays in connecting people with communities, other cultures, and the natural world. A practicing artist, Kathy enjoys drawing, painting, stained glass, and cultural art forms such as the making of pysanky. She is currently the Director of Education at the Hockaday Museum of Art where she manages and develops education programs that promote the Museum’s mission. Museum activities include teaching children’s art classes, guiding tours, bringing outreach programs to schools, coordinating the docent program, and working with other organizations to facilitate art partnerships. Kathy is a practicing artist, former classroom teacher, and has worked at the Hockaday Museum for over 17 years.
Camryn Mahnken
Museum & Programs Associate
Like our museum’s namesake Hugh Hockaday, Camryn was born in raised in Missouri. Before her move to Montana, Camryn earned her degree in Global Studies & Museum Studies at Missouri State University. During her summers in undergrad, she worked seasonal hospitality jobs in the National Parks Service, including at Yosemite & Olympic National Parks. She maintained internships in Exhibit Development at the Discovery Center of Springfield and Curation at the Springfield History Museum on the Square, as well as developed group exhibits for Springfield Art Museum. Throughout college, she volunteered with the Missouri Institute of Natural Science and Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium and participated in several campus and community organizations. After graduation, she made her way east to spend a season as a Parks Interpreter for the Vermont State Park Service, before ultimately pursuing the dream of living and working near Glacier National Park and relocating to Montana. In her career, she follows her passion of expanding public access to knowledge, whether it be of science, history, culture, or art. Camryn believes that art is an amazing way to connect people throughout time and space, and hopes she is able to aid in making those connections through her position at the Hockaday.
Ellen Crosby
Visitor Services & Membership Coordinator
Ellen hails from the Central Valley of California where she graduated with a Business Administration, Finance, degree from California State University, Sacramento. She worked in market research for The Sacramento Bee newspaper prior to moving to Montana in 1992. She was both a homeschooling mom to her two daughters and an in-home caregiver for her father for many years. Ellen moved to Seattle and enjoyed employment in Office Operations and Technology at Vulcan Inc., Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen’s, company. Her lifelong love of art and anything creative has brought her to the Hockaday, not once but twice, as Visitor Services and Members Coordinator supporting the Museum’s vision and outreach to the community in 2021. She is also a writer and is currently writing children’s stories she hopes to publish.
Candy Stephens
Visitor Services Associate
Carmel (Candy) Stephens was born in Miles City, Montana in 1947. She graduated from Central Catholic High School, in Great Falls, Montana. She has worked at several different retail jobs over the years, and became a Realtor Broker in 1990 which she enjoyed for 21 years. After retirement she became active with a couple of different volunteer organizations, including the Kalispell Elks Lodge, where she also volunteers for Military Veterans Memorials. In the summer of 2022, she was asked if she would like to work part time for the Hockaday Museum of the Arts and she jumped at the opportunity. She and Bob are married and together have three children and six grandchildrenthird
Winter Hours:
Tuesday: 11 am- 5 pm; Wednesday through Saturday 11 am- 4 pm
302 2nd Avenue East – Kalispell, Montana 59901
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