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

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