Blending art and industrial art skills

SEELEY LAKE - Thomas Boelman will bring his years of carpentry experience to Seeley-Swan High School's art and industrial arts classes this year.

Boelman graduated from ITT Technical Institute in Indiana with an architectural engineering degree in 1979. He then graduated in 1984 with a B.A. in liberal arts with an emphasis on theater from Hope College in Michigan. He got his master's degree in scenic and lighting design in 1997 from the University of Montana.

He taught scenic and lighting design at St. Mary's College in Indiana from 1997 to 2002. He moved back to Missoula in 2003 where he bega...