ACCI
Gallery Board of Directors & Management
ACCI Gallery is run by a group of artists and community
members who serve on the Board of Directors. Their duties range from helping
to identify and guide the mission of the Gallery to welcoming our guests
at our monthly openings. Look for them and their work next time you visit
ACCI!
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Kirk
McCarthy - Board President
President, Board of Directors
president@accigallery.com
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Tedi
Siminowsky - Vice President
* 30 years teaching and child care administration
* Lots of experience with organizations and financial issues
* Married to ACCI member Michael Sosin, glass artist
* Semi-retired; part time shipping and packing glass
* Doing Mickey¹s volunteer hours on the Board
* Committed to art, craft, and the co-op idea
* Also on Board of St. John's Infant and Toddler Center
* Preferred activity: reading about and traveling to interesting places
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Ken Potter - Secretary http://pitfiring.com
I studied geology and engineering in college and have worked in construction.
My interest in ceramics began as a hobby. While I am interested in
the technical aspects of pottery, I have become enchanted with pit
firing because of the random effects of the fire on the finished pot.
The Pit firing techniques goes back to the earliest traditions in
ceramics, where the pottery was fired in the open, in direct contact
with the fuel. My work is usually wheel thrown, trimmed, then burnished
with a polished stone several times during the drying process. The
final result of this burnishing is a smooth, polished surface that
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Carol Goldman - Board Member
How light, color and form are used in space has always fascinated
me. After years of working in the design field (commercial interiors,
then graphic design and typesetting), I started taking jewelry classes
and I was hooked. Beading on a loom has given a me wonderful opportunity
to develop eye catching surface design while creating neckpieces
that are glamorous, dramatic and fun to wear. I have just started
adding silver, gold and enamel to the mix and am exploring some
new directions.
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Carol Bevilacqua - Board
Member www.duro-design.biz
Handmade ceramic tiles, mosaic, clay, and cement sculpture. Carol
Bevilacqua likes solving the design puzzle in any medium. She loves
the marriage between art, science, and technology; be it through
camera, digital painting programs, paint brush, clay, glass, antique
books, found objects, discarded vintage salvageable materials, or
any combination of the above to create a multimedia art piece. Sculpting
the base for mosaic from foam, or designing wire armatures, then
mummifying it in cement, she uses clay as a 'painted surface' to
hand-make mosaic tiles and design the piece. From her vast collection
of potsherds she selects patterns, textures, and colors.
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Lisah Horner - Gallery Director
Lisah received her degree from Ringling School of Art & Design
in Sarasota, FL. Her printmaking has been shown throughout the United
States and was featured in the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea,
in Florence, Italy as well as at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland,
Oregon.
Lisah is a former director of Artisans Gallery in Mill Valley and
was the founding Executive Director of the Alameda Art Center. She
has been interviewed by Stanford Magazine, as well as radio stations
KPFA and KQED, and was recently featured on NPR’s “All
Things Considered.” She has lectured and served on panels for
the Berkeley Art Center, the Fairfield Visual Arts Association, and
RESOLVE. Lisah served on the board of directors of the ACCI Gallery
in Berkeley before becoming the gallery’s executive director
in October 2005. In her various positions as gallery director, she
has produced over 100 regional and national juried exhibitions.
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