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Cedar Center Arts is the Not-for-profit organization that operates the ARTgarage and other outreach projects to support our mission. We obtained our 501c3 status in 2007 and have been offering programs and services through the guidance of a volunteer board of directors. The individuals who offer their time and talents to serve on the board have the ‘heart for the arts’ for our community. They meet monthly and strive to ensure the mission statement of the organization is entwined in the programs and services of the ARTgarage and other components of the organization where arts are outreached to the community. We thank the following individuals who are currently serving on our Board of Directors: Andrea Werner
- Director of the Bellin Heart and Vascular Center
Andrea Werner is the Director of the Bellin Heart and Vascular Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Andrea has a passion for improving the quality of healthcare, international travel, running, Capoeira Angola (a Brazilian form of martial arts and dance), and international art in general. Andrea was educated at Marquette University, The University of Iowa and The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Christine Style - UWGB professor of art
- Summer Art Workshops Director
Christine Style is an Associate Professor of Arts & Visual Design at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and teaches printmaking and drawing for the Art Program. Chris received a UW Systems Curriculum Redesign Grant in 2008 and exhibits her work regionally and nationally with gallery representation in Milwaukee at the Peltz Gallery. She takes students to Florence, Italy every even-year summer to work in the studios of Santa Reparata International School of Art (www.santareparata.org) through the Office of International Education at UW-Green Bay. Chris is the Vice-President of the Statewide board of directors for Wisconsin Visual Artists (www.wisconsinvisualartists.com) and is also their Biennial Exhibitions co-chair. She is one the board of Cedar Center Arts (the not-for-profit that operates the ARTgarage) in Green By where she directs the Summer Art Workshops (SAW) for Kids & Teens. She has a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.S. degree in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jenny Martell - Accountant, self employed
- Board treasurer
Lise Gammeltoft
Lise Gammeltoft was born in the country of Denmark, emigrated to the United States with her family when she was 8, and grew up in a Connecticut suburb of NYC. She obtained her B.A. from Goucher College, graduate degree from London School of Economics, and J.D. from UW Law School. She has lived in Green Bay since 1978 and was a practicing attorney until June 2009. She has also been a member of numerous non-profit boards. Since her youth she has had an interest in the arts of all kinds (visual, performance, etc.) and believes that artists add an important dimension to any community and that exposure to the arts (even for someone like her who believes she has no artistic talent) widens our perspective and increases our appreciation of everything around us.
Marilee Jahn - Retired Green Bay teacher
- 1st Saturday performance coordinator
Marilee Jahn has worked as chairman of the First Saturday Performances every month and also as a volunteer. She is a retired teacher with her Masters degree in Education from California State University at Long Beach. She also has her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Her interests include music, her great nephew Damian, writing poetry, volunteering, going on nature walks, traveling, and volunteering with her church.
Paul Linzmeyer Paul Linzmeyer is a leader with proven business acumen who has years of executive level leadership. He is founder of ISO International LLC., a firm teaching sustainable principles and practices. He was president of Bay Towel, from 1994-2008. Paul has also led companies in San Francisco, Chicago and Denver for over 20 years. He founded the Employers Workforce Development Network which was one of the partners in the intitial development of a regional coalition to create an eighteen county Northeast Wisconsin economic community, 'The New North'. He is past chair of the Green Bay Chamber of Commerce and the Wisconsin Council on Workforce Investment. He currently chairs the Bay Area Workforce Development Board, the NEW North Sustainability Committee and the Greater Green Bay Sustainability Committee. He is a member of several art organizations too including being on the board of the ARTgarage.
Sandi Van Sistine - Founder and Director, ARTgarage
Sandi Van Sistine is the founder of the ARTgarage. She continues to volunteer and teach art classes at the ARTgarage, "because it's such a darned creative place!" She is an advisor to the Cedar Center Arts, Inc. board and wants to help raise the level of arts participation and awareness in the area. Sandi is an oil painter and she also does pencil and ink drawings. Sandy Melroy - Board (acting) vice president
Sandy Melroy is currently serving as president of Cedar Center Arts. She has a B.S. degree in Home Economics Education, with a specialty in textiles. She produces a line of original, wearable art through her business, Silk Sensations, and teaches the art of silk painting at the ARTgarage, Green Bay Botanical Gardens, and Bergstrom-Mahler Museum. She is active on several community boards, including the Green Bay Art Colony (see website www.greenbayartcolony.com), American Association of University Women (AAUW), and coordinates public art displays for several areas of the community. Sandy has lived in many locations and continues to enjoy travel and linking the community through tourism opportunities.
Suzy Pfeifer - Board (acting) president
- Encompass Child Care
Suzy Pfeifer is the Director of Marketing and Fund Development for Encompass Early Education & Care, Inc. She is a graduate of Indiana University. Suzy is also enjoying classes and participating in events at the ARTgarage and wants to be involved as it works to bring exciting art "adventures" and education to all of us. She is a firm believer that the arts...music, fine, performing, literary (all arts really)...make a community a better place.
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