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STAFF
Director:
Mary
Anne Burke joined the Washington County Arts Council as Interim Executive
Director in October 2008 and was appointed the permanent Executive Director
in February 2009. She comes to the Council with extensive business, volunteer
and community experience. Many Washington County organizations have been the
beneficiaries of her fundraising and leadership expertise, such as the Maryland
Symphony Orchestra, the Washington County Free Library, the Barbara Ingram School
for the Arts; Leadership Washington County; and Breast Cancer Awareness-Cumberland
Valley. She is president of The Rotary Club of Hagerstown–Sunrise.
She served the last nine years
as Marketing Director with the Hagerstown-Washington County Chamber,
and prior positions as Executive Director of Leadership Hagerstown and
Director of the Professional Development Center (HCC), a Federal grant
program providing equity programs and funding for women in education
throughout the State of Maryland. Trained in social work,
Ms. Burke was the Director of Social Services at St.
Martin’s Home in Catonsville and Stella Maris Hospice in Towson. Ms. Burke
earned a BA degree from Nazareth College in Rochester New York. She has continued
to secure several academic degrees in her field and anticipates completing a
Master’s of Science Degree is Strategic Leadership from Mountain State
University in September 2009.
As a longtime community advocate of the arts she
looks forward to serving as Interim Executive Director with the Washington
County Arts Council and furthering its important role of integrating
the arts into the total life of the community.
Gallery Manager and Program Assistant:
Lindsay Weaver is the Gallery Manager and Program Assistant at the WCAC,
and is also an exhibiting artist. She has been with the WCAC since June
of 2007, and is the “front-line contact” that organizes and oversees each exhibit from start to finish. Lindsay is also the contact for membership, program information and is the artist liaison. Lindsay received her BFA with a focus in printmaking and ceramics, and a minor in art history, from Frostburg State University in 2007. Her current work is a departure from the usual nature inspired prints and textures. She is experimenting with a combination of block printing, acrylics and other mixed media. Lindsay recently exhibited her work at the WCAC gallery with artist Kathryn Paul in an exhibit titled “Two Hearts and Apron Strings”.
Lindsay welcomes established and emerging artists, art
lovers and advocates from the surrounding community to come in and check
out the many opportunities to exhibit, sell, view and buy wonderful and
varied works of art from local artists. Lindsay is always eager to meet
and network with artists, and is currently accepting exhibit proposals
for the upcoming 2009 exhibit calendar.
Contact: lindsayw@washingtoncountyarts.com ,
301-791-3132
2008 – 2009 Board of Directors:
| President |
Dr. Donna Newcomer, Executive
Director, WCPS HR |
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| Treasurer |
Mike Murray, President, Direct Mail Processors,
Inc. |
| Secretary |
Kathy Harple, Graphic Design/Prepress Director,Tri
State Printing, Inc. |
| Robert Hovermale |
Director of Music Program, WCPS |
| Tara L. Horst, D.Ed. |
Asst. Professor, Shippensburg U, John L. Grove College of Business |
| James G. Pierne |
Chairman of the Board of Farmers & Merchants Bank
and Trust; Vice President and Group Executive for Susquehanna
Bancshares, Inc |
| Stuart Mullendore |
HBP, Inc. |
| Janet Salter |
Hagerstown Community College |
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