Stephen Nobel, chairman

Stephen Nobel is a visual artist in Livingston, Montana.  His works are the embodiment of an artistic journey that has evolved over decades. Employing the language of color, pattern, shape, scale, shadow, texture, and three-dimensionality, Nobel’s work is a masterful exploration of the relationships between abstract visual elements. He has exhibited at the Danforth Museum of Art in Livingston and Echo Arts in Bozeman, Montana. Prior to his full time commitment to art-making, he was a brand ambassador for Kravet Inc. and Knoll Inc., adjunct faculty for New York School of Interior Design and a trustee of Kendall College of Art in Grand Rapids MI.

Susan Earle

Susan Earle relocated to Livingston in 2019 after a long career as an art conservator at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Susan is a masterful artist, preferring to paint in oil, and also is a regular at Livingston’s life drawing sessions where she skillfully executes figurative work in graphite, conté crayon, and charcoal. She joined the Danforth Museum of Art board in 2022, and is committed to having the DMA function as a valued resource for the local arts community.

Karen Hall

Karen Eva Hall (Kaz) is originally from Liverpool in the UK. She attended the London Studio Centre, a performing arts conservatory, and worked as a dancer and actress before setting up her own production company in 2008. She is married to American comedian Rich Hall. The couple have two children, and a Boston Terrier named Sarge. After peregrinating between Livingston and London for 20 years, the family settled permanently in Montana in 2023. Missing the London art scene, and to bridge the gap, Kaz was delighted to join the board of the DMA. She is proud to be a Danforth board member and support its future development for the enjoyment of the community.

pamela kendall schiffer

Acclaimed artist, and native Californian, Pamela Kendall Schiffer has made Livingston and Paradise Valley her home for the last 10 years. For over forty years her work has been exhibited in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Montana. In addition to other awards and grants, Schiffer received an artist-in-residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming in 2008. In 2009, she collaborated on a series of original lithographs with master printer Geoffrey Harvey of Sunlight Graphics and was drawn to the creative environment she found in Livingston. Schiffer’s paintings are simplified, quiet portrayals of the play of light upon the land and reflect a “sense of things beautiful and profound, joyful and optimistic, quiet, still, and timeless.” The spring of creativity that surrounds Pamela includes her three daughters—a jeweler, a musician and a poet!

kate todd

Formerly a financial advisor with Ameriprise Financials and president of the American Business Women’s Association, Kate has been generously donating her financial expertise to Livingston non-profits since she moved to Livingston in 1997. She has served as president of the Yellowstone Gateway Museum Foundation, is past-president of the Park County Friends of the Arts, the DMA’s parent organization, and is currently a member of P.E.O. Chapter BW, a philanthropic organization supporting education for women in Park County. In addition to all this, Kate is delighted to be taking on a new role with the board of the Danforth Museum of Art.

Storrs Bishop, Executive Director

Storrs graduated from Syracuse University in 1992 with a double-major in English and art. His art studies concentrated on photography and printmaking, disciplines that remain at the heart of his artistic vision, which integrates the traditional processes of printmaking with digital printing and photography.

As an active member of the art community, Storrs led the Danforth’s transition from a gallery to a museum. In August of 2022, he stepped off the DMA board to lead the organization as its executive director. Storrs is currently studying for an MA in art history from MSU. In November 2023, he will defend his thesis, the subject of which is the development of Livingston as an art community.

audrey lavoilette, social media

Audrey Laviolette is a Livingston native who now shares her time between Montana and Madison, Wisconsin. A Beloit College graduate, she is the owner and founder of Laviolette Custom Management specializing in curated management needs. Audrey also enjoys her work on her collaborative passion project, “In A State Between,” a cast created, experimental, audience driven theatre collective in Livingston, Montana.