Andrew Treuner, Board President, is a lifelong resident of Sedalia - "a great place to call home". His wife, Mary, and he have 3 beautiful daughters. Local Architect, Don Buller, invited Andrew to join the Liberty Center board several decades ago. As fate would have it, he, again, joined the Board in 2018. Good things are happening at the Hayden Liberty Center - check us out!
"Can you see it...... think about it." ~62ART
Don Luper, Board Vice-President, received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the University of Missouri.
Although retired from teaching art, Don has been and remains a working artist. His work is featured in multiple collections throughout the United States.
"A painting is not a picture of an experience but is the experience." ~Mark Rothko
April Provance, Board Secretary, has always loved theater and dabbled in it in high school. Her two beautiful girls have always been involved in the arts in some form which led her to becoming involved in the Liberty Center. She has made props and altered costumes for the past few years before stepping out on the stage herself as part of 5th Street Improv.
In her professional life she is the Director of Program Administration at Citizens Against Spouse Abuse.
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents" -Bob Ross
Joe Fischer, Board Treasurer, is a father of four brilliant and beautiful daughters as well as managing member of TARA Indus-tries, a high oil seed crush facility, and Prairie Hollow Development Company, a real estate development company. He was raised in Sedalia and graduated from Central Missouri State University with a BSBA in Marketing and Management.
"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live." ~ Auguste Rodin
Jan Bahner, Member, has been involved in theatre for so long she's forgotten how to write a bio! From her first role at Smith-Cot-ton at age 16, through over 30+ years directing the theatre program at Sacred Heart High School, to her most recent directorial and acting efforts at Libery Center, Jan has had a long and varied life in and around the stage.
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them." ~Anton Chekhov
Karen Ellebracht, Member, grew up in St. Louis, and is married to Steve. Karen became a stay-at-home mom when her first of six wonderful children was born. A volunteer program in Texas allowed her to experience the important benefit of having an arts center in town. Art has always interested Karen since she was a young child, to loving her college art class, to bits of her children's school art decorating her home. Especially the various art forms learned from their years in Singapore.
"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo Picasso
Vicki Weaver, Member, has an MFA from University of Arizona, Tempe, and was named Museum Art Educator of the year by the Missouri Arts Educator Association in 2008. Weaver is also a sculptor who has exhibited extensively in the Southwest and
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"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." -- Rumi
Josh Heimsoth, Member, holds a bachelors in K-12 art education form Missouri State, a masters in Curriculum Development from UCM and an MFA from Fort Hays State University. He is and art teacher at Smith-Cotton and is an internationally shown artist with pieces in private collections around the country.
Carl Hutcherson, Member, chairs the theatre committee and is the technical manager for the theatre. His first show at Liberty Center was a tour stop of Central Missouri Repertory's summer production of Winnie-the-Pooh. Since then, he has been involved with countless productions here as a technician, designer, director, author, and performer. He has a degree in Technical Theatre from the University of Central Missouri. He is the current owner of Peerbolte Creative, Theatrical Planning and Design
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare
Rachel Kramer, Member, is the State Director-Missouri MENTOR.
Jordan Fields, Member, is an art teacher with the Sedalia 200 school district. She is also Director of the Cooney Studio at the Liberty Center.
Ben Jackson, Member, is a Financial Representative with Edward Jones. He has been involved at the Liberty Center as an actor and director.
Doug Briscoe, Member.
Doug Benitz spent his career in manufacturing holding many different jobs from second shift press operator to Senior Tooling Engineer as well as a stint as a manufacturing engineer with a company as they transitioned from a job shop machining company to an OEM manufacturer of purpose specific drilling machines. He is married to Melanie and they have a lovely daughter. He enjoys golf, yard work, fishing and spending time with family
Ruthie Hart, Liberty Center Arts Director, has worked in professional and community theatre, both on stage and off, for most of h .. A native of St. Louis, she moved to Sedalia in 2004. She has been a radio host and enjoys canoeing, fishing, arts and crafts and spending time with her family and friends.
"Better keep yourself clean and bright, you are the window through which you must see the world". ~ George Bernard