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

  • 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

The WCAG Board typically meets on the second Tuesday of every month at Rock Street Gallery. All members are invited to attend.



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