Margaret Webb Dreyer began teaching art in the 1940s at Ripley House in Houston where, according to Candice Hughes, writing in Houston Breakthrough, "she also directed plays, taught dance, repaired the cabinetry and even called a few square dances."[1]
One of the young artists Dreyer encouraged was Charles Arthur Turner, now a prominent and widely exhibited artist and a long-time teacher at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Glassell School of Art.