Mary Ann Strandell teaches painting and graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She maintains a studio in downtown St. Louis with her partner, the sculptor Michael Rees. Her previous teaching appointments include The Kansas City Art Institute, Notre Dame University, the University of South Dakota and the University of New Mexico.

Besides her life long interest in art-making as a printmaker and painter she is very involved with bridging the traditional languages of visual media with technical and creative research in the areas of 3-d lenticular printing and archival digital editions.