WCA Current Board

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WCA Current Board

Executive Committee

President
Janice Nesser-Chu, Professor, Dir. of the Galleries & Perm. Collection, Florissant Valley College, St. Louis, MO
President-Elect
Priscilla Otani, Artist, Partner - Arc Studios & Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Treasurer/Secretary
Margaret Lutze, Adjunct Faculty, Northwestern, DePaul, and Loyola Universities, Chicago, IL
Vice President
Karen Gutfreund, Curator, Art Consultant, Artist, San Jose, CA
Past President
Marilyn J. Hayes, Painter & Printmaker, Ret. Sr. Prog. Analyst, US EEOC, Arlington, VA

Officers

VP for Chapter Relations
Ulla Barr, Artist, San Clemente, CA
VP for Organizational Outreach
Sandra Mueller, Founder, Zest Collaborations; Community Artist, A Window Between Worlds, Venice, CA
VP for Development
Avinger Nelson, Artist/Curator, Pasadena, CA
VP Special Events
Holly Dodge, Contracts/Grants Manager, Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC

Regional Vice Presidents

Regional VP Northeast
Alison Altergott, Artist, Wilmington, DE
Regional VP Southeast
Ann Rowles, Artist, Atlanta, GA
Regional VP Midwest
Brenda Oelbaum, Artist, Independent Curator, Ann Arbor, MI
Regional VP Southwest
Leslie Aguillard, Artist, Teacher, Emily Griffith Opportunity School, Denver, CO
Regional VP Northwest
Rebecca Kramer, Artist, Missoula, MT
Regional VP Pacific
open

Standing Committee Chairs

Honor Awards Chair
Amy Galpin, San Diego, CA

Nominations Chair
Yuriko Takata, Artist, San Francisco, CA

Directors

2011
NIku Kashef, Pacific Palisades, CA
Helen Obermyer-Simmons, Lunenberg, MA
Dale Osterle, Artist, DeKalb, IL
Barbara M. Carson, Ann Arbor, MI
Linda Gilbert-Schneider, Photographer, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Jaimianne Amicucci, Artist, Mahopac, NY
Fay Grajower, Artist, Boston, MA
Leslie Hume, Artist, Chesterfield, MO
Deborah Thomas, Artist, Curator, Art Historian, and Professor at Pasadena City College, CA
Jeane Vogel, Artist, St. Louis MO
2009
Yueh-mei Cheng, Professor of Studio Art, Int’l School of Art and Design, Finlandia University, Hancock, MI
Helen Poole Newman, Artist, Activist, Bio-Field Therapist, Berkeley, CA
Roxanne Philips, Associate Instructor Maryville University and St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
Judith Segall, Artist, Altamonte Springs, FL
Position open

Caucus Chairs

Eco-Arts Caucus
Anukriti Sud Hittle, St. Louis, MO
Deborah Thomas, Artist, Altadena, CA
International Caucus
Priscilla Otani
Jewish Women Artists Network (JWAN)
Rona Lesser, Artist, Houston, TX
Young Women's Caucus (YWC)
Yueh-mei Cheng, Professor of Studio Art, Int'l School of Art and Design, Finlandia University, Hancock, MI
Jaimianne Amicucci, Artist, Mahopac, NY

Board Appointed Directors

CAA Liaison
Temma Balducci, Assistant Professor of Art History, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
Chapter Relations
Barbara Wolanin, Curator, Art Historian, Bethesda, MD
Gallery/Museum Liaison
Kat Griefen, Director of AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Staff

Director of Operations
Karin Luner, Artist, Gallery Director, Dietzspace, NYC

See WCA Committees

WCA Donors

Benefactor

The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh, NY
Margaret Travis-Jaspering, Warrenton, MO

Patron

Marilyn J. Hayes, Arlington, VA
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Oakland, CA

Advocate

Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Honorary Committee

College of Fine and Performing Arts, Rowan University, NJ
Mayor John Hieftje of the City of Ann Arbor, MI
Oxford University Press, Cary, NC
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
Rutgers, The State University New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Supporter

Lou Armbinder-Hein
Barbara Aubin, Chicago, IL
Ulla and Ronald J. Barr, San Clemente, CA
Judith K. Brodsky, Princeton, NJ
Holly Dodge, Washington, DC
Alice Dubiel, Seattle, WA
Nancy Elizabeth Fitch, NY
Jane Forth, Washington, DC
Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY
GYST Ink, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Lou Heine, Pescadero, CA
Johnson Family in Memory of Madeleine S. Johnson, MI
Ann Sutherland Harris, Pittsburgh, PA
Meg M. King, Minneola, FL
Ellen G. Landau, Cleveland, OH
Rona Lesser, Houston, TX
Patricia Martini, San Francisco, CA
Sandra and Stephen Mueller, Santa Monica, CA
Janice Nesser-Chu, Florissant, MO
Ferris Olin, Princeton, NJ
Cherie M. Redlinger, Washington, DC
Catherine M. Salser, Pacific Palisades, CA
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Medford, MA
Linda Gilbert-Schneider, Brooklyn, NY
STLCC - Florissant Valley Art Department
Sandy Knell Tamny, New York, NY
Ruth Waters, Redwood City, CA
Ruth Weisberg, Los Angeles, CA
Barbara Wolanin, Bethesda, MA

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