Gayle Weatherson graduated from High School in North
Central Montana in the early 70s and went on to pursue art
education at Montana State University, in Bozeman,
Montana. Somewhere in there she took time to have a family
and completed her under-graduate studies in 1986, graduating
MSU at the age of 32. She moved to Eastern Oregon to
accept a position teaching art to a bunch of middle-schoolers
for eight years.

Taking time off to be an artist, she tried other pursuits as well,
including a stint as a gallery director at the Betty Feves Gallery
on the campus of Blue Mountain Community College,  
helping to found a cooperative gallery in Pendleton, Oregon,
painting, hand-building with clay, winning a few regional
awards for her artwork, working as a picture framer in
Hermiston, and finally, going back to school to renew her
teaching certification at the same time she was learning to
make jewelry.

In 2004, Gayle was hired at Stanfield Secondary School as the
art teacher, where she has been since, trying to inspire young
minds and hearts with the practice of art, asking the essential
question: 'What is art, and why do we do it?'.