Grissom-Kiely has worked in various capacities at the Missoula Art Museum, the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, the Montana Arts Council, homeWORD, the St. James Guide to Latin American Art (co-editor), and as a freelance grant-writer and researcher. While in Chicago, she worked as director of education at the Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 37 and Marwen Foundation—all inner-city arts organizations that provide art and exhibition programming. She completed a curatorial internship for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as well as full-time summer internships in museum education at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western Art in Indianapolis, IN. She is committed to art and arts education and has an extensive background in community-based arts education, with a master’s degree in modern/contemporary art history, theory, and criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused on contemporary women artists of Cuba, and a bachelor’s degree in art and art history from DePauw University. She currently teaches museum education at the University of Montana’s Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program.