About the Folk Art Society: A Brief History of the Folk Art Society of America





		Officers and Board Members National Advisory Board Members Awards of Distinction Preservation of Folk Art Sites
		The Folk Art Society Officers and Board of Directors, 2005-06: President: Ann Oppenhimer, Richmond, Va., retired teacher of art history at University of Richmond Vice President: Tom Brumfield, Asheville, NC, president of Eastern Furniture Sales and Rentals Secretary: Catherine Roseberry, Richmond, Va., artist, co-owner of Coloratura Treasurer: Karen Emroch, Richmond, Va., community volunteer Chairman of the Executive Committee: William Oppenhimer, Richmond, Va., retired obstetrician/gynecologist K. Johnson Bowles, Farmville, Va., director of Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood University Donna Brumfield, Asheville, N.C., designer and collector
		Genevieve Chenault, Richmond, Va., retired English teacher at St. Catherine’s School and Virginia Commonwealth University Hank Chenault, Richmond, Va., retired assistant managing editor, The Richmond News-Leader Ray Kass, Christiansburg, Va., artist, professor of art at Virginia Tech Chuck Rosenak, Coral Gables, Fla., retired attorney, collector and author Jan Rosenak, Coral Gables, Fla., attorney, collector and author Arthur Shaheen, Blacksburg, Va., attorney David Whaley, Richmond, Va., director of publications and visual art at Longwood University The Folk Art Society’s National Advisory Board, 2005-6: Joe Adams, Hilton Head, S.C., president of America, Oh Yes! Jim Arient, Naperville, Ill., dentist, collector Beth Arient, Naperville, Ill., collector Didi Barrett, New York, N.Y., former editor of The Clarion Russell Bowman, Chicago, Ill., art consultant, former director of the Milwaukee Art Museum Lynne Browne, Atlanta, docent at the High Museum of Art, collector Georgine Clarke, Montgomery, Ala., Alabama State Council for the Arts Susan Crawley, Atlanta, Ga., associate curator of folk art, High Museum of Art Carol Crown, Memphis, Tenn., professor of art history, University of Memphis John Foster, St. Louis, Mo., design consultant, president of ENVISION Folk Art Kurt Gitter, New Orleans, La., retinal surgeon, collector Baron Gordon, Williamsburg, Va., retired member of New York Stock Exchange, collector Ellin Gordon, Williamsburg, Va., collector and retired director of admissions at Rye Country Day School, N.Y. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Salem, Mass., chief curator of Peabody Essex Museum Jeffrey Hayes, Milwaukee, Wis., professor of art history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Frank Holt, Orlando, Fla., director of Mennello Museum of American Art Bill Glennon, Huntley, Ill., retired businessman, collector Kevin Grogan, Augusta, Ga., director of The Morris Museum of Art Larry Kent, Vista, Calif., president of Kent’s Bromeliads, collector Randall Lott, Alpharetta, Ga., senior director of development for GEAC Computer Corp. George Meyer, Bloomfield Village, Mich., attorney, collector Kay Meyer, Bloomfield Village, Mich., chairman of crisis intervention organization, collector Carol Millsom, New York, N.Y., retired professor of childhood development and education at New York University Mary Mitchell, Santa Fe., N.M. and Baileys Harbor, Wis., writer and artist Anton Rajer, Madison, Wis., art conservator Cheryl Rivers, Brooklyn, N.Y., teaches at the Folk Art Institute, American Folk Art Museum Betty-Carol Sellen, Deale, Md., retired librarian at Brooklyn College, author Stephanie Smither, Houston, Tex., collector John Turner, Berkeley, Calif., news editor, KGO-TV, curator of San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum George Viener, Reading, Pa., businessman, collector Carolyn Weekley, Williamsburg, Va., director of Colonial Williamsburg Museums Richard Wenstrup, New Richmond, Ohio, farmer, writer, folk art and book collector Maggie Wenstrup, New Richmond, Ohio, artist Gerard C. Wertkin, New York, N.Y., director of American Folk Art Museum Alice Yelen, New Orleans, La., curator, author, collector Winners of the FASA Awards of Distinction: 1989 - Howard Finster 1990 - Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr. 1991 - Robert Bishop (posthumously) 1992 - Seymour Rosen 1993 - Minnie Adkins, Dorothy and Sterling Strauser 1994 - Felipe and Leroy Archuleta, Warren and Sylvia Lowe 1995 - Ned Cartledge, Jan and Chuck Rosenak 1996 - Clyde Jones, Gerard Wertkin 1997 - Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack), Flo and Jules Laffal 1998 - Rev. Johnnie Hunter, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Marilyn Oshman 1999 - Linvel Barker, Lillian Barker (posthumously), Alan Jabbour 2000 - Ted Gordon, Bud Goldstone 2001 - Georgia Blizzard, Shirley Yancey, Peggy Baggett 2002 - Lorenzo Scott, Betty-Carol Sellen, John Smither (posthumously), Stephanie Smither 2003 - Ralph N. Lanning, Maude Southwell Wahlman 2004 - Artists of Creative Growth Art Center, Irene Ward Brydon, John Foster, Lee Kogan 2005 - Stanley Szwarc, Russell Bowman 2006 - Nicholas Herrera, Peter Cecere FASA Plaques Awarded to Folk Art Sites Worthy of Preservation and Protection: Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, Summerville, Ga. Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, Simi Valley, Calif. Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Los Angeles, Calif. Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain, Niland, Calif. Miles Carpenter’s Home, Waverly, Va. Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India

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