2025-26 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
JenniferPolnaszek, President-Elect

WCAG email: jennifer.presidentelect@wcagtx.org
Artist website: www.jeniferpolnaszek.com
Member since: 2016
Artist influences: John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassett, and lots of others...
Inspirational quote: “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Albert Einstein
Theresa Wayne, Treasurer

WCAG email: theresa.treasurer@wcagtx.org
Artist website: www.facebook.com/TheresaChauvinWayne/photos_by
Member since: 2023
Artist influence: John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassett, Joan Walsh Anglund
Inspirational Quote: "EVERYTHING is a risk. What if it doesn't work out? OH – BUT what if it does?" Joan Walsh Anglund
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.”
Earleen Braly-Allen, Parliamentarian

WCAG email: earleen.parliamentarian@wcagtx.org
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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
Karyn Derby, Newsletter

WCAG email: karyn.newsletter@wcagtx.org
Artist website www.instagram.com/fragmentsofimaginationart
Member since: 2025
Artist influences::Impressionism, Van Gogh, Elizabeth St. Hilaire Inspirational quote: “To practice any art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” — Kurt Vonnegut
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
Evie Walberg, Gallery

WCAG email: evie.gallery@wcagtx.org
Artist website instagram.com/tx_original_creations
Member since: 2022
Artist influences:The colors, shapes and movement within nature and impressionists painters
Inspirational quote: “He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” – Francis of Assisi
Allison Walker, Hospitality

WCAG email: allison.hospitality@wcagtx.org
Artist website: instagram.com/allisoneveart
Member since: 2023
Artist influence: Georgia O'Keeffe
Inspirational quote: "Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move mountains. She will shake the world."
Ruth Gamble, Programs

WCAG email: ruth.programs@wcagtx.org
Member since: 2024
Arftist Influence: Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dalí
Inspirational quote: “The same thing that will make you laugh can make you cry.”
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