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Suzanne Fetscher - President/CEO

Suzanne Fetscher was appointed founding President of McColl Center for Visual Art in April 1998.  Prior to this appointment, Ms. Fetscher served for five years as Executive Director of Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.  Before becoming Executive Director, Ms. Fetscher served as Atlantic Center's Assistant Program Director, and then Program Director.
 
Atlantic Center is a multi-disciplinary artists-in-residence community with a strong commitment to engaging the area population through outreach.  A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Orlando (B.F.A., 1979) and University of Florida, Gainesville (M.F.A., 1982), she spent several post-graduate years teaching design and drawing, serving as adjunct instructor at Rollins College, Winter Park and University of Central Florida, Orlando, and as a full-time visiting instructor at Stetson University, DeLand.

Mrs. Fetscher served three terms (1996-1999) as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Artists' Communities, a national consortium of organizations and individuals established to improve the environment in which artists' communities support artists in the creative process.  She serves on the International Advisory Board of Akiyoshidai International Art Village in Japan and served on The Advisory Board and as Treasurer of Res Artis, the international consortium of artists-in-residence programs. She is a member of Charlotte's Women Executives and a former Board member of the Friends of Fourth Ward.  

In her spare time, Suzanne reads, keeps to a yoga program and travels with her husband, Elmar, who is a retired professor of 19th Century European Intellectual History.

Board of Directors

Kim Blanding

Bob Bertges, Chair

W. Charles Campbell

Shaun Cassidy

Astrid Chirinos

Thomas Cottingham

Russ Daniel

Ben Dellinger

Andy Dews, MD

Ray S. “Rip” Farris, Vice Chair

Paige Gantt

Alvaro Gurdian Jr.

Paige Johnston  

Barbara Laughlin

Wesley Mancini

Chris McCoy 

Richard McCracken

Sheila T. Mullen

Jonathan K. Murray

Debra Plousha-Moore

Betsy Rosen

A. Zachary (Zach) Smith III

Jeff Trenning

Bryan L. Williams, Treasurer

Manuel Zapata

National Advisory Board

Lori McGee, Chair of National Advisory Board & Recent Past Chair, Board of Directors

Olga Garay, Director, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles

Jennifer Parham Gilomen, artist and former Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center for Visual Art

Mason Granger, Director of Grants, The Hearst Foundations

Ken Lambla, Dean, College of Arts & Architecture, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Willie Little, artist and former Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center for Visual Art

Ruby Lerner, Executive Director, Creative Capital