Meet the team

Laura stepped into leadership in late 2023 and has served as Acting Executive Director since. She championed the shared leadership model LAC runs on today and helped build it out through 2024 and 2025. The planning and organizational skills she built over a long career backstage have shaped that work, and LAC is better for her willingness to turn them on the Art Center.

Felanie, the face of the counter. Felanie's passion for graphic design and keeping art human is what landed them at the Lander Art Center, their hope for a more vibrant Lander is what keeps them here. Born and raised in the small town Lander, Wyoming, they have always dreamed big. A recent high school graduate and a current undergraduate, Felanie has a zeal for learning. A painter, a potter, a film maker, a florist, a storyteller, and active member of their community and well decorated in all they do; never one to say no, Felanie has developed quite the resume during their time in this town. Felanie started with the Lander Art Center in August of 2025 hoping to make a difference for our Lander artists.

Kaia Leseberg is a photographer born and raised in the heart of Wyoming: Fremont County. She holds two degrees, an Associate's of Art in English and an Associate's of Applied Science in Photography.

Kaia has always been drawn to the arts. As a child, she loved capturing pixilated, abstracted versions of the world on a pink Fisher-Price toy camera. Then, several years ago, she rediscovered her passion for the photographic arts after building a pinhole camera and taking photos on paper negatives as part of the curriculum in a General Studio Art class. Now, Kaia practically lives in the darkroom, and when she's not there, she is out with her camera! Her favorite types of photography are fine art portraiture and photojournalistic captures of local events.

After 45 years backstage on Broadway, Laura retired to Lander. Like Bill Cody she too "has worked very hard and am tired of the towns, and anxious to get back to the free life of the country."

Laura has been a member of LAC since first visiting Lander in 2013. Since then she has contributed to the 2019 through 2022 Members Shows and is currently serving on the board.

Heather brings a background in education and program development to LAC, where she works on building art programs that stay open to everyone in the community.

Shane is a Midwest transplant who made his home in Lander, drawn by the state's natural beauty. As treasurer he manages the finances, backs inclusive programs, and helps establish LAC as a hub for many art forms.

He believes art is a tool for connection and community building, and his work is guided by integrity and autonomy. Outside LAC he works in design and print, and shares creative projects with his children.

Susan has directed and choreographed musicals, revues, club acts, cruise ship and theme park shows, from off Broadway theatre in New York City to the stages at Busch Gardens in Florida.

She performed on Broadway in MERLIN with Chita Rivera, in Radio City Music Hall's 50th Anniversary show ENCORE and THE CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR, and danced at Radio City in two productions with Liberace. She toured in the First National Tour of CHICAGO under Bob Fosse, understudied Gwen Verdon, and later played Roxie Hart herself. She danced in the films ALL THAT JAZZ, THE FAN, and LEGS.

Susan received a Harkness Scholarship to study ballet at Southern Methodist University and has taught dance and musical theatre in schools and universities in the United States and Germany. Her production of CABARET won San Antonio's Globe Award for Best Production of a Musical and Best Choreography, and she was nominated for Philadelphia's Barrymore Award for Best Choreography for CHICAGO and MY ONE AND ONLY.

Marnie has worked in Lander's cultural community since arriving in 2018. As Executive Director of Art Link Wyoming she managed that organization's merger with LAC, moving its youth performing arts programs across. As Development Director for Lander Performing Arts she secured grant funding and expanded arts and music programming across Fremont County.

On the LAC board she continues to push for arts education and performance opportunities that stay open to everyone.

Leslie spent decades in Jackson Hole, where she ran small retail businesses of her own, before moving to Lander to settle into retirement.