McMillen-Oakley, Thomas

About the Author: Tom McMillen-Oakley is an artist, a professor, a dad and husband living in Jackson, Michigan. He grew up in Toledo, Ohio and attended the University of Toledo and the School of Design at the Toledo Museum of Art for a degree in Art Education. Upon graduation, he began teaching high school art and in 2000 he was named the Michigan Art Education Association's Higher Education Art Teacher of the year. Tom and his husband Tod were married in California in 2008; they have two children with two legs and two children with four legs. The four-legged children are often times better be...