2024-25 Board of Directors

  • Lynn Kessel, President

    WCAG email: lynn.president@wcagtx.org
    Artist website: lynnkesselart.com
    Member since: 2002
    Artist influences: Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Carol Light
    Inspirational quote: "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." -Thomas Merton

  • President-Elect (Vacant)

    WCAG email:
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    Member since:
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  • Evie Walberg, Treasurer

    WCAG email: evie.treasurer@wcagtx.org
    Artist website: Instagram.com/tx_original_creations/
    Member since: 2022
    Artist influence: Impressionists, Expressionists, Cubism
    Inspirational Quote: "A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others." - Salvador Dali

  • Ted Keller, Secretary

    WCAG email: tedk.secretary@wcagtx.org

    Artist website: photographybytedkeller.com Member since: 2013

    Artist influences: Tom Mangelsen, Bill Fortney, Art Wolfe

    Inspirational quote: “Don’t show what it looked like…make me feel like you felt.”

  • Linda Figg, Parliamentarian

    WCAG email: linda.parliamentarian@wcagtx.org
    Member since: 1999
    Artist influences: UT Professor Kelly Fearing, Remedios Varo
    Inspirational quote: "Don't take yourself too seriously.”

  • Patti Wojtowecz, Exhibits

    WCAG email: patti.exhibits@wcagtx.org
    Artist website: pawprintsbypattiwojtowecz.com
    Member since: 2019
    Artist influences: Savanna Rose, Deanna DeShea
    Inspirational quote: “Art is not what you see but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas

  • Jessica Snowden, Newsletter

    WCAG email: jessica.newsletter@wcagtx.org
    Artist website: JessicaBrittonStudios.com
    Member since: 2021
    Artist influences:: Nature Inspirational quote: “It’s all perspective.”

  • Lesley Bradstreet, Publicity

    WCAG email: lesley.publicity@wcagtx.org
    Artist website: lesleybradstreetphotography.com
    Member since:
    2024
    Artist influences: Claude Monet, Freeman Patterson, André Gallant
    Inspirational quote: “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead.” -Albert Einstein

  • Anca Thomas, WCAG Gallery

    WCAG email: anca.gallery@wwcagtx.org
    Artist website: athomas3.artspan.com
    Member since: 2018
    Artist influences: Salvador Dali, Monet, Gaugin
    Inspirational quote: "Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is an explosion into unknown areas." - Arshille Gorky

  • Earleen (Brady-Allen) Bartholmew, Hospitality

    WCAG email: earleen.hospitality@wcagtx.org
    Arftist email: ebralyallen@gmail.com
    Member since: 2023
    Artist influence: Joseph Cain
    Inspirational quote: "Can't Never Could Do Anything"

  • Lily, Temporary Program Chair

    Member since: 2017

    Arftist Influence: Henriette Ronner-Knip, Louis Wain

    Inspirational quote: "The smallest feline is a masterpiece" -Leonardo da Vinci

  • Patrick O'Brien, Membership & Webmaster

    WCAG email: patrick.membership@wcagtx.org; patrick.webmaster@wcag.org

    Artist website: 3EyedManImages.com

    Member since: 2016

    Artist Influences: YHWH, man ray, Max Ernst

    Inspirational quote: "To create is divine, to reproduce is human." --man ray


Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. —Rene Magritte