Board
Douglas R. Mann
Maryland Institute College of Art
Chair
Doug Mann is the current Board Chair of Maryland Citizens for the Arts. He has served on the Board for the past 13 years, spending much of that time leading its advocacy efforts. Mr. Mann is currently the Vice President and CFO for the Maryland Institute College of Art. Prior to that, he served as Principal Analyst for the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee of the Maryland General Assembly and as the CFO for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Mann also serves on the Board of Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance (AEMS), one of MCA's partner organizations. His recent past Board service includes the Maryland Film Coalition and the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. He has a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Mr. Mann has two children and resides in Severna Park, Maryland. Contact him at dmann@mica.edu.
The Honorable Adrienne Jones
Maryland House of Delegates
Vice Chair
Delegate Adrienne Jones has been a member of the House of Delegates since October 21, 1997, representing District 10. In addition to being Speaker Pro Tem, she is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and its public safety & administration subcommittee. She also provides leadership through the Legislative Policy, Spending Affordability, Rules and Executive Nominations and Legislative Ethics Committees, and she is a member of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland.
Ms. Jones is the first Executive Director of the Baltimore County Office of Fair Practices and Community Affairs, a position she has held since 1995. She has faithfully served the citizens of Baltimore County for over 30 years in various positions since she was hired as a Clerk in 1976.
In addition to acting as Vice-Chair of the Maryland Citizens for the Arts Board of Trustees, Ms. Jones has served or is currently serving on several professional business and civic organizations such as the Maryland Trial Court Judicial Nominating Commission; the Baltimore County Leadership (1986); the Leadership Alumni Board; the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, Women Power Inc.; the Coalition of 100 Black Women; the Liberty/Randallstown Coalition; The Friends of Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and the 10th District Democratic Club, Family and Children Services Board, Friends of Randallstown Library, Liberty Road/Randallstown Economic Development Partnership.
In recognition of her public service, Ms. Jones has received numerous awards and honors, including: Community Services Award, Baltimore Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 1991; Citizens Award, Baltimore County Police Department, 1993; Award of Appreciation for Outstanding Services to the Asian/Indian Community, 1993; Valued Hours Award, The Fullwood Foundation, 1995; Award of Appreciation, Baltimore County Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1996; Meritorious Service Award, National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 1996; Governor's Certificate of Merit for outstanding contributions in field of victims' rights and services, 1997; Delegate of the Year, Maryland State's Attorneys' Association, 1998; Parren J. Mitchell Award, Maryland Association of Equal Opportunity Professionals, 1999; Service Above Self Award for Outstanding Public Service, Woodlawn/Westview Rotary, 1999; Living Legacy Award, Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum, 2001; Award of Excellence, Women in Government Services, 2003; Outstanding Alumna of the Year, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2003; Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 2002, 2004, 2007 (Circle of Excellence); Honorary Doctor of Law Degree, Goucher College, 2008.
Ms. Jones was born in Cowdensville, Maryland, an historic African-American community located near Arbutus, in Southwest Baltimore County. She attended Baltimore County Public Schools and received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1976.She resides in Woodstock, Maryland with her husband, Henry Bell, and two sons Brandon and Daylan. She is a member of Union Bethel A.M.E. Church in Randallstown.
Doreen Bolger
Baltimore Museum of Art
Vice Chair
Doreen Bolger, Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art since 1998, has led the BMA through a Strategic Plan that redefined its artistic focus as nineteenth century, modern, and contemporary art; placed greater emphasis on the riches of the Museum’s renowned art collections; initiated a series of high profile, BMA-organized scholarly exhibitions that have traveled nationally; made a renewed commitment to arts education and community engagement with the Museum; and called for increasing the Museum’s fundraising capacity. Ms. Bolger also plays a leadership role in the region’s cultural community, serving as Chair of the WYPR Community Advisory Board, and as a Board member of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Maryland Citizens for the Arts, and the Charles Street Development Corporation. She is also a member of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee of the U.S. Mint.
Previously, Ms. Bolger served as Director of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. She had a long curatorial career, first at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and then at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. With a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, she has published extensively on American painting, drawings, and decorative arts.
Lynn Deering
CenterStage
Secretary
In addition to her volunteer work with Maryland Citizens for the Arts, where she has served on the Board for over 15 years, Lynn Deering serves as a trustee on the Board of CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore, MD (previously President of the Board), and is a member of the National Council for the American Theatre. Mrs. Deering is also the President of The Charlesmead Foundation and a trustee of the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as a member of the National Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and an active volunteer at the Joseph Richey Hospice in Baltimore.
Edmund S. Coale III
Coale/Pripstein
Treasurer
A lifelong resident of Maryland, Edmund "Skip" Coale grew up in the Rodgers Forge and Wiltondale areas of Baltimore County. He is a graduate of Calvert Hall College High School in the class of 1965. He went on to Catonsville Community College and then onto the University of Maryland, College Park campus. In 1969, Mr. Coale was drafted into the United States Army and served in South Vietnam. He was honorably discharged and returned to The University of Maryland to finish his studies.
Mr. Coale graduated from the University of Maryland College of Business and Management in December 1973. He passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Exam on his first sitting in May of 1974. Prior to forming Coale, Pripstein and Associates, he served as a sole proprietor, as the manager of the small business department of C.J. Ecalano & Co., CPAs, and as a manager at Matthews, Carter and Boyce, CPAs in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Coale is an active member of the Maryland Association of CPAs. He has served on a number of committees for the association, including the Management of an Accounting Practice Committee, the Sole Practitioner Committee, and the Professional Ethics Committee of which he served as chairman.
His areas of concentration include federal and state taxes; issues of closely held businesses; computers and business software; start-up assistance and consulting; financing and capital structure; and general business consulting.
In addition to his professional activities, Mr. Coale volunteered countless hours with a number of service and exempt organizations in the community. He is specifically interested in supporting the Arts and in assisting others to have opportunities to improve and attain their goals.
Carole Alexander
Anne Arundel County
Lora Bottinelli
Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art
Lora Bottinelli joined the MCA Board of Trustees in 2009. She serves on both the advocacy and technology committees. She is currently the Executive Director of the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art in Salisbury, Maryland.
Ms. Bottinelli’s professional interests are in the field of traditional arts and culture. She first started her work in Maryland as Curator/Folklorist at the Ward Museum under the Maryland Traditions program. Since that time, she has been working to more fully integrate her research on cultural traditions of Maryland's Eastern Shore into the exhibit and outreach programs at the museum. Ms. Bottinelli's administration of the 2003 American Folklife Center Field School sponsored by the Library of Congress, and participation in research and programming at the 2004 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, were extensions of her work at the museum.
Ms. Bottinelli is an officer of the Board of Directors of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association and an officer of the Board of Directors of the Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Council. She has also been a guest lecturer in folklore and folklife at Salisbury University.
Ardath M. Cade
Anne Arundel County
Theresa Cameron
Americans for the Arts
Marva Jo Camp, Esq.
Prince George’s County
Jose Dominguez
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center
Jose Dominguez is a veteran of the area's non-profit community and has more than fifteen years of experience in non-profit management and youth program development. Mr. Dominguez has managed grants at the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation, developed events such as the DC Hip Hop Theatre Festival at the DC Art Commission, and directed after school programs at the Young Playwright’s Theater and the Shakespeare Theatre. Mr. Dominguez received his BA from Southern Methodist University and his MFA in Fine Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Jephta Drachman
Shriver Hall Concert Series
Sue Hess
Baltimore City
Sue Hess has been a leader and staunch defender of the arts in Maryland for over thirty years. Shortly after Francis Murnaghan, Jr., a longtime chairman of the Walters Art Museum, founded Maryland Citizens for the Arts (MCA) in 1977, he was appointed to the U.S. Circuit Court. He asked Ms. Hess to become the chair of MCA, which she did, and she has continued to serve MCA in various capacities ever since that time. Working on her own for the first three years at her kitchen table in Ocean City, Ms. Hess began forming a network of grassroots art supporters across the state, and she soon acquired a reputation for unflinching persistence in advocating for the arts in Maryland at any level at any time. Residing with her family in Salisbury, she was concerned that all Maryland citizens have access to the arts, especially students. Ms. Hess has been instrumental in driving the tremendous change and growth in MCA/MCAF over the years, and she continues to add her unique and seasoned perspective to the organization as the longest serving member on the Board of Trustees. Her passion for the arts and her credibility with the state’s elected leadership has yielded countless benefits for artists and audiences everywhere in her beloved State of Maryland.
Robert Huebner
Garrett County
Robert W. Huebner is retired from the University of Maryland, College Park, after serving on the Human Development faculty for 25 years. Prior to that he was a teacher and principal in K to 8 Lutheran Schools in Indiana, Illinois and Maryland.
In his retirement he has been active in a number of non-profit organizations and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Garrett County Habitat for Humanity, the Maryland Salem Children’s Trust, Garrett Cooperative Ministry (parent organization of Christian Crossing Thrift Shop), and Garrett Performing Arts Center, Inc.
In 2006 he was honored as “Garrett County’s Most Beautiful Person.”
William E. Kirwan, Ph.D.
University System of Maryland
William E. Kirwan has been chancellor of the University System of Maryland since 2002. Before joining the University System of Maryland (USM) as chancellor, Dr. Kirwan served as president of the Ohio State University for four years and president of the University of Maryland, College Park (one of USM’s 11 universities) for 10 years. He is a nationally recognized and respected authority on critical issues shaping the higher education landscape, including access and affordability, closing the achievement gap, cost containment, diversity, and accountability.
Among his many board leadership and membership positions, Dr. Kirwan chairs the College Board’s Commission on Access, Admissions, and Success in Higher Education and the National Research Council Board of Higher Education and Workforce. He also co-chairs the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. He serves on the boards of several regional groups, including the Maryland Economic Development Commission, Greater Baltimore Committee, and the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education.
Dr. Kirwan has received numerous awards. Most recently, he was named one of only four recipients nationwide of the 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award.
Dr. Kirwan received his doctoral and master's degrees in mathematics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Kentucky.
Laurence Levitan
Rifkin, Livingston, Levitan & Silver LLC
The Honorable Laurence Levitan served for 10 years as Chairman of the Judicial Compensation Commission and currently serves as a member of the Morgan State University Board of Regents. Formerly he was Chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee for 16 years, and served 24 years in the Maryland General Assembly with distinction from 1971-1994. He received many honors during his career of public service, including the Maryland Chamber of Commerce's "Public Affairs Award for Outstanding Contributions" for his efforts in improving government/business communication. Senator Levitan is a recognized expert in State budget and tax issues and represents clients before the Maryland Legislature, State agencies and local governments. In 2002, Senator Levitan was appointed as the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Representative to the Commission on Maryland's Fiscal Structure.
Thomas Lewis
Johns Hopkins University
Julie Madden
Howard County
Julia S. Madden has been involved with MCA for over ten years, first as a Board member from 1998 through 2003 serving on the Advocacy sub-committee and the Governor’s Arts Awards committee. She has served on the MCA Board again since 2007 as Co-Chair of the Advocacy sub-committee, contributes to the efforts of the Maryland Arts Day 2010 committee, and serves on the Executive Committee. Over the past twenty-two years she has enjoyed working with various cultural organizations including serving on the Board of Directors of the African Art Museum of Maryland, Maryland Artists Equity Foundation and World Artists Experience. In addition, she has served the Baltimore Museum of Art as a member of the Accessions Committee, on the Advisory Committee of Art Education in Maryland Schools, the Maryland Sister State Cultural sub-committee and as a member of the National Portrait Society. Ms. Madden volunteered for three years for the office of the registrar for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She was appointed to serve the State of Maryland as Director of Arts and Community Outreach, implementing cultural initiatives for the Office of the Governor.
She holds a B.A. in Art History and is currently working on a Masters degree in the Smithsonian-Corcoran History of Decorative Arts program.
Ms. Madden’s professional career outside of the arts involved working for many years in the financial industry as a Commodities Futures broker and Securities registered representative in Washington, D.C. and New York City. She also maintains professional Insurance licenses in Property, Casualty, Life and Health insurance.
Her passions are her husband and teenaged daughter as well as travel, reading, writing, and collecting art.
The Honorable Nathaniel J. McFadden
Maryland State Senate
Mary Ann E. Mears
Arts Education in Maryland Schools
Mary Ann Mears is a sculptor who has been commissioned to create site-specific art for public sites across a number of states including Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, and Washington, D.C. Within her home state of Maryland, her commissioned works are located in Bethesda, Rockville, Cheverly, Belair, Glen Burnie and at several locations in Baltimore. Her most recent major project, Lotus Columns, was just installed in Silver Spring. She is also a volunteer arts advocate. Her achievements include being a founder of Maryland Art Place and helping to craft and successfully lobby for Maryland’s Public Art Bill. She is a trustee of Maryland Citizens for the Arts as well as the founder of Arts Education in Maryland Schools (AEMS) Alliance. She serves on the Maryland State Department of Education’s Fine Arts Education Advisory Panel. She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in the Fine Arts from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). In 2009, she received the Distinguished Service to the Arts Award from the National Governors Association.
Paul Meecham
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Paul Meecham was named President and CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in October of 2006. He is also a board member of Maryland Citizens for the Arts and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
Paul Meecham has held leadership positions in the classical music industry in London, San Francisco, New York and most recently in Seattle, where he served as the Executive Director of the Seattle Symphony from 2004-2006. Among his achievements, he launched the first-ever Seattle Symphony national radio broadcast series and a series of commercial recordings of American music on the Naxos label. He increased the Symphony's commitment to family programming and community outreach, and worked closely with Maestro Gerard Schwarz on the two highly acclaimed Made in America festivals. He led a financial restructuring that included negotiation of a four-year collective bargaining agreement with the Seattle musicians, and secured a $5 million gift to the Symphony's endowment and a $900,000 three-year grant from the Mellon Trust.
Prior to Seattle, Mr. Meecham was General Manager of the New York Philharmonic (1999-2003) and San Francisco Symphony (1997-99). As Managing Director of the London Sinfonietta for six years beginning in 1991, he restored the ensemble’s position as the pre-eminent European 20th-century music orchestra, increasing international demand for concerts, touring and recording.
Paul Meecham was musically trained on piano and violin and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree. After a career in music publishing as Head of Publicity at the London firm of Boosey & Hawkes, he moved into orchestra management in 1988, as Head of Marketing at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Meecham is married and has two young children.
Eliot Pfanstiehl
Strathmore Hall Foundation
Eliot Pfanstiehl is the President and CEO of Strathmore Hall Foundation, Inc., which operates and presents programming at Strathmore, a multi-disciplinary arts center, including the Music Center and the Mansion at Strathmore, in Montgomery County, Maryland. Mr. Pfanstiehl has held this position since the Foundation’s inception in 1983.
Born in the District of Columbia and a graduate of George Washington University with a B.A. in Psychology, Mr. Pfanstiehl's career is a mixture of arts management, education, leadership training and organizational development. He has led over 250 board and strategic planning retreats for a range of non-profit civic, arts and social service organizations, government agencies and businesses.
Mr. Pfanstiehl has been a founder, president or chair of Montgomery County Arts Council, the Round House Theatre, the League of Washington Theatres, the Maryland State Arts Council and Maryland Citizens for the Arts. His past board service includes the Friends of the Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Black Rock Arts Center, Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, Maryland Association of Non-profit Organizations, Montgomery County Conference and Visitors Bureau and MetroArts I, II and III. He was the founding President of Maryland Leadership Workshops and is the ongoing program facilitator for Leadership Maryland, Leadership Montgomery, Leadership Allegany, Leadership Washington County, Leadership Anne Arundel and is a graduate of the inaugural class of Leadership Washington.
Mr. Pfanstiehl was named 2000 Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine, the Washington Business Journal named him one of the “People to Watch” in 2005, and he was awarded Outstanding Leader of the Year by Leadership Montgomery in 2008.
Eliot and his archaeologist wife, Cynthia are the proud parents of four children. They live in Silver Spring, Maryland where they are active in school, church, and community affairs.
Blake Robison
Round House Theatre
Blake Robison is in his fifth season as Producing Artistic Director of Round House Theatre. Since his arrival there, he has launched the company’s Literary Works Project, re-envisioned its educational programming, created RHT’s artist laboratory The Kitchen, and commissioned new works from some of the country’s most exciting up and coming playwrights. At the same time, he has kept the organization on sound financial footing by increasing both earned and contributed revenue and growing its endowment funds.
Round House directing credits include Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s modernized The Picture of Dorian Gray (world premiere); Karen Zacarias’ How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents (world premiere) adapted from Julia Alvarez’s celebrated novel; a rock music and dance infused Lord of the Flies; Ken Ludwig’s new adaptation of Treasure Island; a three-actor treatment of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment; the Helen Hayes nominated production of John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany; and the American premiere of Neil Bartlett’s Camille. Other directing includes productions at Folger Theatre, National Shakespeare Company, PlayMaker’s Repertory Company, Clarence Brown Theatre, Vermont Stage, Piccolo Spoleto, and the Avignon “Off” Festival.
Previously, Blake has held leadership positions at The Clarence Brown Theatre (Producing Artistic Director, 2000-2005), National Shakespeare Company (Producing Director, 1998-2000), and Vermont Stage Company (Co-Founder/Artistic Director, 1994-1999). He created revivals of The Dresser starring John Cullum; The Rainmaker with David Keith; and The Glass Menagerie with Rosemarie Prinz; as well as the world premiere of Dana Yeaton’s Mad River Rising (Moss Hart Award), the American premiere of George Tabori’s The Brecht File, and the creation of Babel – an international theatre piece in twelve languages with Alain Timar’s Théâtre des Halles.
Blake is a graduate of Williams College, The British American Drama Academy, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Silver Spring with his wife, Connan Morrissey, and their sons Declan and Callum.
Darcey Schoeninger
Queen Anne's County Arts Council
Darcey Schoeninger has been the Executive Director of the Queen Anne's County Arts Council since 1996 and is currently serving as the President of the Community Arts Alliance of Maryland. Ms. Schoeninger is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park where her studies focused on cultural anthrolpology. She has worked with the Maryland State Arts Council as an application review panelist for the Community Arts Development Grant program and served on the Governor's Art Salute panel. She has led board retreats for arts organizations and non-profits across Maryland. In addition to Maryland Citizens for the Arts, Ms. Schoeninger currently serves on the boards of the Maryland Humanities Council and Maryland Life Magazine.
Andy Vick
Allegany Arts Council
Andy Vick has been the Executive Director of the Allegany Arts Council since April of 2003. He and his wife, Beth Piver, were full-time artists when they relocated to Western Maryland from Fairfax, Virginia in March of 1998, and they continue to be active contributors in the local arts community. Prior to his career in the arts, Andy was employed as a Marketing Director and as a Manager of Human Resources for businesses in the Washington, DC area. In addition to his role as Executive Director of the Allegany Arts Council, Andy is the Chairman of the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority (the State of Maryland’s first certified heritage area). He also serves on the Board of Directors of Maryland Citizens for the Arts, the Maryland Tourism Development Board, and the Allegany County Chamber of Commerce, and is a Past-President of the Rotary Club of Cumberland. Andy is a member the City of Cumberland’s Downtown Development Commission (which oversees the City's Main Street Program), a member of The Greater Cumberland Committee, and is the co-Coordinator for the Arts & Entertainment Districts in Downtown Cumberland and Downtown Frostburg. In his spare time, Andy is also an experienced public speaker and consultant on the topic of using the Arts as a tool for economic development and community revitalization.
Gary Vikan, Ph.D.
The Walters Art Museum
Gary Vikan was named Director of the Walters Art Museum in 1994 after serving as the museum’s Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Medieval Art since 1985. Before coming to the Walters, Dr. Vikan was Senior Associate for Byzantine Art Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC. A native of Minnesota, he received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976.
Dr. Vikan’s vision was the driving force behind the renovation of the Centre Street Building in 2001. During his tenure Dr. Vikan secured three major collections: the John and Berthe Ford Collection of the Arts of India, Nepal and Tibet; the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Collection of South-East Asian Art, and the John Bourne Collection of the Arts of the Ancient Americas; since 1995, he has assembled at the Walters the finest collection of Ethiopian art outside of its native country. Two hallmarks of his directorship have been the change in the Walters’ name from “gallery” to “museum” in 2000 and, in 2006, the elimination of its general admission fee.
An internationally known medieval art scholar, Dr, Vikan has curated a number of the most significant exhibitions in the museum’s history, including Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia (1992) and African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia (1993). Trained as a Byzantinist, he has published and lectured extensively on topics as varied as early Christian pilgrimage, medicine and magic, icons, the Shroud of Turin, and Elvis Presley. His most recent book, Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, will be published in 2010 by Dumbarton Oaks; he is currently working on a book-length study entitle Pilgrimage to Graceland. Dr. Vikan is adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Art History, and a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies.
In 1999 Dr. Vikan was appointed by President Clinton to his Cultural Property Advisory Committee, a post he held until 2003. He was honored by the French Minister of Culture and Communication with Knighthood in the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) in 2000. In 1999, he was the American Association of Museum Directors’ representative to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States. He has served or is currently serving on a number of boards, including Maryland Citizens for the Arts, the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, the Maryland Humanities Council, the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors’ Association, and St. Timothy’s School. He currently serves on advisory boards for the Getty Leadership Institute and the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.
Christopher R. West
Semmes, Bowen & Semmes
Mr. West joined the firm of Semmes, Bowen & Semmes upon his graduation from law school in 1975 and for the past 23 years has concentrated on developing a large and varied commercial practice. Currently, he co-chairs the firm’s venture capital and commercial lending practice. Mr. West maintains a complex and varied commercial law practice with emphasis on commercial law, the Uniform Commercial Code, loan workouts, bankruptcy law and commercial litigation.
Additionally, Mr. West has served as counsel for the Maryland Republican Party, as President of the Baltimore City Bar Association, and has served on the Maryland State Bar Association's Board of Governors. In a non-law capacity, Mr. West has been on the Board of Trustees for Maryland Citizens for the Arts since 1997, is on the Board of Young Victorian Theatre Company, and served for five years on the Maryland State Arts Council.
Sander L. Wise
Gordon Feinblatt
Sander “Sandy” L. Wise joined the board of the Maryland Citizens for the Arts, Inc. in 1993 and served as treasurer from 2002-2003. He currently serves on the Finance and Nominating Committees. For the past 20 years he has been involved in a number of arts organizations, including as a board member & officer of the Shriver Hall Concert Series, and as board member of the Museum for Contemporary Arts. Additionally, Sandy has served on the boards of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, and was an officer of Levindale for 12 years culminating in service as Chairman of the Board.
Sandy has been a Member and is currently Of Counsel at the law firm of Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, LLC, where he has been affiliated since 1961. Sandy was one of the first practitioners in Maryland to develop a focus in employee benefits law.
Mr. Wise is an engineering graduate of Cornell University and received his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law.
Mr. Wise is an inveterate traveler and reader.