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Suzanne Fetscher - President, Executive Director

Suzanne Fetscher was appointed founding President of McColl Center for Visual Art in April 1998.  Prior to this appointment, Ms. Fetscher served for five years as Executive Director of Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.  Before becoming Executive Director, Ms. Fetscher served as Atlantic Center's Assistant Program Director, and then Program Director.
 
Atlantic Center is a multi-disciplinary artists-in-residence community with a strong commitment to engaging the area population through outreach.  
A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Orlando (B.F.A., 1979) and University of Florida, Gainesville (M.F.A., 1982), she spent several post-graduate years teaching design and drawing, serving as adjunct instructor at Rollins College, Winter Park and University of Central Florida, Orlando, and as a full-time visiting instructor at Stetson University, DeLand.

Mrs. Fetscher served three terms (1996-1999) as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Artists' Communities, a national consortium of organizations and individuals established to improve the environment in which artists' communities support artists in the creative process.  She serves on the International Advisory Board of Akiyoshidai International Art Village in Japan and served on The Advisory Board and as Treasurer of Res Artis, the international consortium of artists-in-residence programs. She is a member of Charlotte's Women Executives and a former Board member of the Friends of Fourth Ward.  

In her spare time, Suzanne reads, keeps to a yoga program and travels with her husband, Elmar, who is a retired professor of 19th Century European Intellectual History.

Board of Directors

Jennifer Appleby
Wray Ward

Bob Bertges, Vice Chair
Wachovia Corporation

W. Charles Campbell
Flagship General Partners, LLC

Shaun Cassidy

Astrid Chirinos
Diverso Global Strategies

Thomas Cottingham
Winston & Strawn

Russ Daniel
Grant Thornton

Andy Dews, MD
Arboretum Pediatrics

Caroline K. Dellinger Recent Past Chair
Bank of America

John Gray Blount Ellison III (Gray)
Specialty MFG, Inc.

Ray S. “Rip” Farris, Second Vice Chair
Tuscan Development

John J. Huson,  Secretary
Carocon Corporation

Paige Johnston

Wesley Mancini
Wesley Mancini Designs, Ltd.

Jonathan Mangels, Vice Treasurer
Greer & Walker, LLP

Lori Tomoyasu McGee, Chair

Richard McCracken
McCracken and Lopez, PA

Sheila T. Mullen

Jonathan K. Murray

Amy T. Pitt

Marjorie Serralles Russell
    
Shannon G. Smith
The Lavenir Group

A. Zachary (Zach) Smith III
K & L Gates

Bryan L. Williams, Treasurer
Deloitte & Touche, LLP

Phyllis Wingate-Jones
CEO, Mercy Hospital

Joan Zimmerman