Janaína Vieira-Marques is a Brazilian-American art director and educator who has called Missoula home since 2008, after immigrating from Brazil. For the past thirteen years, as both an educator and art director, she has created art encounters and education programs that often end in public art pieces, performances, sets, and costumes.  She was an Artist in Residence at the Holter Museum of Art in 2019, 2020 and at the Missoula Art Museum in 2021 and 2022, was the K-8 art teacher at Sussex School for four years, and created arts projects for most of the Elementary schools in Missoula through the Spark Ignite Learning program.  She is trained in Visual Thinking Strategies and Arts Integration from the Kennedy Center for the Arts and received her BFA with high honors from the University of Montana.  As an artist she seeks to facilitate collaborative interactions while beautifying the places we share.  Her pieces include collaborations with dancers, choreographers, engineers and light designers.  She is trained in graphic design and knows a lot about coloring sawdust for public art. She joined the Missoula Art Museum team in late 2022 as the Education and Outreach Coordinator.