President – Lara Scolari
Scolari has 25 years experience across the areas of sales, administration marketing, office design, business and event management in the private sector. She is currently employed in a casual capacity across a number of areas at the Western Plains Cultural Centre including Visitors Services Officer, Casual Tutor and as part of the Install Team. She holds a Diploma IV of Fine Arts (Distinction), was selected for the TAFE NSW Post Graduate Residency in 2008 and has also completed the Arts Administration Certificate III course. Her recent accolades include winner of the Into the Drip Art Prize Mudgee, and was a finalist in the 2009 Morton Bay Art Awards, also the Calleen Acquisition Prize in 2009 and 2008. She has completed numerous exhibitions and projects with Fresh Arts since 2006 and is excited about her term as President in which she can make a positive contribution to the organisation using her many skills suited to the visual arts industry. Scolari currently resides in Dubbo with her husband Peter and three sons, Matt, Nick and Liam.
Vice President – Rita Bruce
Elected as Vice President in late October 2009, Rita holds qualifications in the education sector. Originally from Dubbo, she now teaches across a number of specialist areas within TAFE NSW, and is currently completing a Certificate IV in Fine Arts. She operates her own art and craft business locally and has previously worked in the Beauty Therapy industry. Her current art practice focuses on concepts related to the theme of animal cruelty and the relationship between animals and humans. Rita loves a challenge, and is looking forward to making a positive contribution to the Visual Arts sector in regional NSW, through her executive role in Fresh Arts.
Secretary – Kim Goldsmith
Goldsmith merges her interests in visual artforms and environmental issues, working to communicate those issues to broad audiences through her interactive and digital art and her work as a professional communicator. She is a founding member of Fresh Arts, having previously held various executive and non-executive positions. She exhibits annually with the collective and has had two solo shows since 2004, as well as a major showing of digital media works in the Main Gallery at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in 2009. She is currently studying Visual Arts at TAFE.
Contact Kim at: kim_ochre@bigpond.com
Treasurer – Sandra Alon
Sandra is an artist, teacher and printmaker who specialises in digital prints, traditional and solar plate etchings, drawings and paintings, artworks & artists\' books in mixed media and hand-built ceramic forms. She teaches and conducts workshops in most of these mediums in private workshops, through Coonabarabran High School and is a tutor through TAFE NSW. She has been involved in a number of community groups and committees including Coonabarabran Arts Council, Coonabarabran Arts and Crafts Exhibition and their related Expo event held in October of every year.