BOARD & TEAM
The Frederick Arts Council’s Board and Team members bring together a wide variety of experience which is combined in service of advancing and supporting Frederick’s creative community. We are proudly connected to our mission and we believe that Frederick’s flourishing depends on the flourishing of the arts.
Bruce Zavos, Zavos Architecture + Design LLC
President
Linda Roth, VP ACNB Bank
Vice President
Andrew Rosenfeld, Mount St. Mary’s University
Secretary
Terri Almacy, Almacy & Co. CPAs
Treasurer
Deb Bedwell, Founder, Baltimore Clayworks
Jillian DeShazer, Project Manager, DMS Health and Research IT
Sue Hough, Octavo Designs
Jerry Donald, Frederick County Council
Freddy Katana, Founder, Shungu Gallery
Karlys Kline, Founder, Women’s Giving Circle of Frederick County
Sharon Kuebbing, Maryland Licensed Psychologist
Tim Kueberth, Edward Jones
Donna Kuzemchak, City of Frederick
Leslie Powell, Powell LLC
Robert Robey, Civil Engineer
Ted Robinson, Monocacy River Photography
Paula Rubin-Wexler, Paula Rubin-Wexler Fine Art
Louise Kennelly, Executive Director
Ms. Kennelly joins the Frederick Arts Council after nearly five years as Executive Director of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, a membership organization dedicated to providing access to world class arts for all public school students which functioned as the formal arts education partner of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Prior to that position, she was a Director at the federally funded National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research. Ms. Kennelly is a published poet and painter and a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, a North Carolina State Arts Council Grant, and is qualified as a Maryland Artist in the Schools through the Maryland State Arts Council Arts in Education Artist-in-Residency program. She was an adjunct faculty member of Hood College and is a graduate of Yale University, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and has an MFA from the University of North Carolina.
Kennelly@frederickartscouncil.org
Gabriella Smith, Director of Operations
Gabriella received her Cultural Studies degree in 2016 from Towson University with a focus on Museum Studies. Her career focus is community outreach with the inclusion of the arts for underserved youth and young adults. Smith spearheaded the exhibition installation at Towson University’s MFA gallery for “Mission Universe: A Cuarnaut’s Journey” in Summer 2016. Smith has been a student of classical ballet since she was very young.
Emily Holland, Public Art Program Manager
Emily is a 2014 graduate of the University of Chicago, where she majored in English Language
and Literature. Her initial background in journalism includes internships at the former Frederick
Gorilla, The New Republic, and an arts-focused Senior Writer position at Chicago’s South Side
Weekly. She returns to the Frederick Arts Council after serving as its Community Outreach
Coordinator from 2016-2018. She brings unique insight to the position of Public Art Program
Manager, having assisted FAC with its Public Art Master Planning process and having served
on the team at Kalisher, a leading hospitality art consulting firm. Her creative interests include
writing (fiction, arts & cultural criticism), ballet, and vintage fashion.
Emily@frederickartscouncil.org
Maura Parrott, Sky Stage Curator
Maura trained in art history with an MA from George Washington University, and early work in collections research and documentation for the Phillips Collection and National Gallery of Art. She has served on the Rockville, MD Cultural Arts Commission, the Las Vegas Arts Commission and the Southern Nevada team of the Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child initiative toward arts access and integration in K-8 education. Maura particularly enjoys community collaborations on all incarnations of art in public spaces.
Emma Sandler, FAC Associate
Emma is a student at Hood College who plans to receive their Arts and Archaeology degree in May 2023, with a concentration on studio arts. Their training in gallery management and art handling includes the installation of several local exhibitions at the FAC Art Center and Hood College Galleries. They especially enjoy creating ceramics and showing their work at art festivals, craft shows and galleries in Frederick and beyond.
David Dooley, FAC Associate
Logan Waters, FAC Associate
Logan Waters has managed and run sound for Sky Stage and designed sound, lighting and projection for Frederick Arts Council events since 2018, adding live-streaming to his services in 2020 to help bring shows to a wider audience as the pandemic reduced our capacity at Sky Stage. He is the owner of Semi Audio, a Frederick-based event sound company, and has over 30 years’ experience as a sound engineer, in studio, on tours, and for many live events in the UK, continental Europe, and Washington, DC. Since settling in Frederick his company has also run event production and sound for New Spire Arts and other venues.
Gregory Svedberg, Volunteer
Gregory Svedberg is a musician, dj, sound and video producer who also works as a technician for Tech Data Corporation. Greg has been assisting with concerts at Sky Stage since the start of the 2019 season. He operates Buzz Entertainment Productions, and has produced video from Make N’ Music’s “Local Live” shows featuring interviews and performances by local musicians and bands, as well as videos of local venue live performances, and concert videos with Seven Arts Archives.