With a student enrollment of fewer than 900 students, Brown County High School offers a wide selection of art classes taught by two experienced, dedicated, full-time art teachers.   

Deborah Strother has an under-graduate degree from California College of the Arts and a master's degree from Indiana University.  She has lived in London, England and Oakland, California, and was a writer and editor for educational publishers before returning to the classroom in 1994.  In 2000 she received the Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant and spent the summer in Italy,  working in a ceramics studio and traveling.  In 2001 she received a Fulbright Memorial Fund Teachers Program grant to visit Japan to study its education system and culture.  In 2004 Ms. Strother visited China as a member of Indiana University's East Asian Studies Center Study Tour to the People's Republic of China.  In 2006 Ms. Strother received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to visit South Africa; in 2007 she traveled throughout Egypt; and in 2008 she received another Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant to learn about Islamic tiles in Spain and Morocco.  See Exploring the World for more information.  Ms. Strother sponsors the fine arts academic team.  

Contact Ms. Strother at 812-988-6606 or  dstrothe@brownco.k12.in.us

Lance Miller graduated from Indiana University in 2000 with a concentration in painting.  He teaches photography, painting, drawing, and two-dimensional design.  Mr. Miller lives in Bloomington, where he contributes work to many local publications, including the IDS (Indiana Daily Student), Bloomington Independent, and Matrix.   Mr. Miller is advisor to the student literary magazine, Aquila.  

Contact Mr. Miller at 812-988-6606 or  lmiller@brownco.k12.in.us

Both teachers are committed to helping each student develop his or her individual talents and to providing all art students with a comprehensive art education.