2023 ALWCA LeaDERSHIP GROUP
Serving the women of Alabama
is a team effort!
2023 TEAM MEMBERS
● President & Social Media – Kimberly Hart
● Vice President – Rachel Lackey
● Treasurer - Amanda Banks
● Secretary – Elizabeth Reich
● Membership – Misty Granade
● Exhibitions – Sylvia Bower/Anna Sue Courtney
● Birmingham Pod Leader – Tara Stallworth Lee
● Communications - April Harris
● Web Master – Cynthia Wagner
● Intern – Qiyanni Bowie
● Vice President – Rachel Lackey
● Treasurer - Amanda Banks
● Secretary – Elizabeth Reich
● Membership – Misty Granade
● Exhibitions – Sylvia Bower/Anna Sue Courtney
● Birmingham Pod Leader – Tara Stallworth Lee
● Communications - April Harris
● Web Master – Cynthia Wagner
● Intern – Qiyanni Bowie
ALWCA President & ALWCA Social Media - Kimberly Hart
Kimberly Hart is a multidisciplinary artist who makes visual stories from dreams and stories. She has been an ALWCA member for nine years and worked on the WCA communication committee for four years. She taught art to neurodivergent children for 15 years. Her work has been in numerous solo and group shows locally and nationally. Find her at: www.kimberlyreneehart.com
Kimberly Hart is a multidisciplinary artist who makes visual stories from dreams and stories. She has been an ALWCA member for nine years and worked on the WCA communication committee for four years. She taught art to neurodivergent children for 15 years. Her work has been in numerous solo and group shows locally and nationally. Find her at: www.kimberlyreneehart.com
ALWCA Vice Presiden- Rachel Lackey
Rachel Lackey is a printmaker by profession and an interdisciplinary artist by nature. Her work ranges and often combines a variety of media, including printmaking, drawing, watercolor, photography, assemblage, and sculptural books. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2008. 2010, she founded the Green Pea Press community printmaking studio at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment. In 2019, The Catalyst Center for Business and Entrepreneurship awarded her Creative Entrepreneur of the Year. Lackey is a member of Arts Huntsville, the Women’s Economic Development Council, and the Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art. A native of Huntsville, Alabama, her roots in the area run five generations deep.
Rachel Lackey is a printmaker by profession and an interdisciplinary artist by nature. Her work ranges and often combines a variety of media, including printmaking, drawing, watercolor, photography, assemblage, and sculptural books. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2008. 2010, she founded the Green Pea Press community printmaking studio at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment. In 2019, The Catalyst Center for Business and Entrepreneurship awarded her Creative Entrepreneur of the Year. Lackey is a member of Arts Huntsville, the Women’s Economic Development Council, and the Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art. A native of Huntsville, Alabama, her roots in the area run five generations deep.
ALWCA Treasurer - Amanda Banks
Amanda Banks is a multidisciplinary artist local to Huntsville, AL. She graduated with honors from The University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020 and currently serves as a Director of the Board of The National Women’s Caucus for Art. Her work combines artistic and scientific traditions to put everyday patterns into new contexts. Amanda has been a member of ALWCA since 2017 and has previously served as Treasurer, Vice President, and President.
Amanda Banks is a multidisciplinary artist local to Huntsville, AL. She graduated with honors from The University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020 and currently serves as a Director of the Board of The National Women’s Caucus for Art. Her work combines artistic and scientific traditions to put everyday patterns into new contexts. Amanda has been a member of ALWCA since 2017 and has previously served as Treasurer, Vice President, and President.
ALWCA Secretary - Elizabeth Reich
Elizabeth Reich is an unconventional watercolorist, solopreneur, and founder of LZBTH Creative Content (2017), the umbrella for her art and design practice, and freelance work for a local magazine—South Huntsville Neighbors. She is a UAH Art History graduate (2005). Originally from New England, Elizabeth became another Huntsville transplant in Y2K.
Gardens and the outdoors inspire her art and surface pattern designs, and her goal is for the art to serve as a bridge between chaos and serenity. She became a member of ALWCA in 2018. When she isn't working or creating, you can find Elizabeth with her family (including three senior cats), taking a walk in the great outdoors, or reading a good book.
Elizabeth Reich is an unconventional watercolorist, solopreneur, and founder of LZBTH Creative Content (2017), the umbrella for her art and design practice, and freelance work for a local magazine—South Huntsville Neighbors. She is a UAH Art History graduate (2005). Originally from New England, Elizabeth became another Huntsville transplant in Y2K.
Gardens and the outdoors inspire her art and surface pattern designs, and her goal is for the art to serve as a bridge between chaos and serenity. She became a member of ALWCA in 2018. When she isn't working or creating, you can find Elizabeth with her family (including three senior cats), taking a walk in the great outdoors, or reading a good book.
ALWCA Membership - Misty Granade
Misty Granade is an abstract mixed-media artist from Alabama. Her interests include contemporary mixed media art, art journaling, bookbinding, eco-dying, and crochet. Misty writes about art and process on her blog. Her work has been a part of numerous solo and group shows. Find her at: https://misty.granades.com.
Misty Granade is an abstract mixed-media artist from Alabama. Her interests include contemporary mixed media art, art journaling, bookbinding, eco-dying, and crochet. Misty writes about art and process on her blog. Her work has been a part of numerous solo and group shows. Find her at: https://misty.granades.com.
ALWCA Exhibitions - Sylvia Bowyer
Education: MFA 1989 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA BFA 1980 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC. Sylvia Bowyer lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and makes visual objects. Over the years, she has worked as a painting contractor, construction coordinator, museum preparator, and museum facilities assistant.
Education: MFA 1989 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA BFA 1980 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC. Sylvia Bowyer lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and makes visual objects. Over the years, she has worked as a painting contractor, construction coordinator, museum preparator, and museum facilities assistant.
ALWCA Exhibitions - Anna Sue Courtney
As a kid, Anna Sue Courtney was an ‘instigator’––her mother’s epithet. Inspired, Anna Sue acquired a daring, multidisciplinary artistic power, propelling herself into a decades-long identity as her community’s “arts instigator.” She attended East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania with a Visual and Performing Arts degree. She is a puppeteer and runs a Lowe Mill ARTS and Entertainment studio. She also teaches at the Huntsville Museum of Art and runs workshops in Alabama.
ALWCA Exhibitions - Sylvia Bowyer
Education: MFA 1989 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA BFA 1980 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC. Sylvia Bowyer lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and makes visual objects. Over the years, she has worked as a painting contractor, construction coordinator, museum preparator, and museum facilities assistant.
As a kid, Anna Sue Courtney was an ‘instigator’––her mother’s epithet. Inspired, Anna Sue acquired a daring, multidisciplinary artistic power, propelling herself into a decades-long identity as her community’s “arts instigator.” She attended East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania with a Visual and Performing Arts degree. She is a puppeteer and runs a Lowe Mill ARTS and Entertainment studio. She also teaches at the Huntsville Museum of Art and runs workshops in Alabama.
ALWCA Exhibitions - Sylvia Bowyer
Education: MFA 1989 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA BFA 1980 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC. Sylvia Bowyer lives in Huntsville, Alabama, and makes visual objects. Over the years, she has worked as a painting contractor, construction coordinator, museum preparator, and museum facilities assistant.
ALWCA Birmingham Leadership Pod - Tara Stallworth Lee
Tara Stallworth Lee works across mediums, concentrating on analog photography, paper making, and collage. In collaboration with her partner, Lou, she designs and builds frames using ethically sourced wood from the Birmingham area and south Alabama. Her latest works incorporate textiles, dying, and hand stitching.
In 1992, Tara received her BS in Psychology and Minor in Art from Birmingham-Southern College. She is the 2021/22 recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Gay Burke Fellowship in Photographic Arts. Lee works in Birmingham, Alabama, as an art educator and studio resident at Ground Floor Contemporary.
Tara Stallworth Lee works across mediums, concentrating on analog photography, paper making, and collage. In collaboration with her partner, Lou, she designs and builds frames using ethically sourced wood from the Birmingham area and south Alabama. Her latest works incorporate textiles, dying, and hand stitching.
In 1992, Tara received her BS in Psychology and Minor in Art from Birmingham-Southern College. She is the 2021/22 recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Gay Burke Fellowship in Photographic Arts. Lee works in Birmingham, Alabama, as an art educator and studio resident at Ground Floor Contemporary.
ALWCA Communication Chair Position - April M. Harris
April M. Harris is a multi-talented designer and artist passionate about nature. From her hometown of Prattville, Alabama, she graduated from Auburn University in Montgomery with a love of art. For 20+ years, she has worked as a senior graphic design consultant for prestigious companies such as IBM and TCS. April also hosts "Art Talk with April" to support and celebrate the creative journeys of other artists. April lives in Hoover, AL, with her husband, son, and daughter. She loves sewing, reading, and playing with her kids when she isn't creating.
April M. Harris is a multi-talented designer and artist passionate about nature. From her hometown of Prattville, Alabama, she graduated from Auburn University in Montgomery with a love of art. For 20+ years, she has worked as a senior graphic design consultant for prestigious companies such as IBM and TCS. April also hosts "Art Talk with April" to support and celebrate the creative journeys of other artists. April lives in Hoover, AL, with her husband, son, and daughter. She loves sewing, reading, and playing with her kids when she isn't creating.
ALWCA Exhibitions - Samantha Tallichet
Samatha grew up in Huntsville, Alabama's stargazing and science-centric city, yet her passions remained firmly within exploring humanities. She is drawn to narrative and traditional works of art because of the classical painting techniques and subject matter. Tallichet graduated in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a minor in Art History. She works at the Huntsville Museum of Art as an assistant in the Curatorial and Education departments. Samatha has a studio on the third floor of Lowe Mill, Studio 320.
Samatha grew up in Huntsville, Alabama's stargazing and science-centric city, yet her passions remained firmly within exploring humanities. She is drawn to narrative and traditional works of art because of the classical painting techniques and subject matter. Tallichet graduated in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a minor in Art History. She works at the Huntsville Museum of Art as an assistant in the Curatorial and Education departments. Samatha has a studio on the third floor of Lowe Mill, Studio 320.
..ALWCA Website Admin - Cynthia Wagner
Cynthia Wagner is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the complex internal landscapes of the human experience and the objects that hold human stories in their physical forms. Her work blends several artistic practices, including painting, collage, sculpture, and photography. Wagner earned a BFA in Painting from the Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University Indianapolis. Her work has been exhibited across the Southeast, most recently a solo exhibition at the Gadsden Museum of Art. Her work has been featured at the Montgomery Museum of Art; Huntsville Museum of Art, Wiregrass Museum of Art; the LaGrange Museum of Art; Art Fields, Lake City, North Carolina; Johnson Center for the Arts; and the A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. This last year, she fulfilled two public art commissions in Huntsville, Alabama. Wagner, born and raised in Colorado, lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
Cynthia Wagner is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the complex internal landscapes of the human experience and the objects that hold human stories in their physical forms. Her work blends several artistic practices, including painting, collage, sculpture, and photography. Wagner earned a BFA in Painting from the Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University Indianapolis. Her work has been exhibited across the Southeast, most recently a solo exhibition at the Gadsden Museum of Art. Her work has been featured at the Montgomery Museum of Art; Huntsville Museum of Art, Wiregrass Museum of Art; the LaGrange Museum of Art; Art Fields, Lake City, North Carolina; Johnson Center for the Arts; and the A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. This last year, she fulfilled two public art commissions in Huntsville, Alabama. Wagner, born and raised in Colorado, lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
ALWCA Birmingham Pod - Amber Orr
Amber Orr is an artist and educator from the Magic City of Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Montevallo, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art in drawing and a minor in art history. Orr started her professional art career in 2013.
In her spare time, she is a teacher for the IPC Day School & UAB's Arts In Medicine. She has over 17 years of experience in childcare, including five years working with special needs children.
Orr enjoys interweaving her passions for art and education together. This
combination is often reflected in her bright and playful work. She approaches each piece with childlike energy and emotion. Her goal is always to trust and enjoy the process of creativity.
Amber Orr is an artist and educator from the Magic City of Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Montevallo, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art in drawing and a minor in art history. Orr started her professional art career in 2013.
In her spare time, she is a teacher for the IPC Day School & UAB's Arts In Medicine. She has over 17 years of experience in childcare, including five years working with special needs children.
Orr enjoys interweaving her passions for art and education together. This
combination is often reflected in her bright and playful work. She approaches each piece with childlike energy and emotion. Her goal is always to trust and enjoy the process of creativity.
ALWCA Birmingham Pod - Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky
Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky uses bacterial cultures and science illustrations as a playground for aesthetic and scientific exploration. During her Ph.D., funded by the National Science Foundation, she studied how agar art, or paintings using bacteria, can be used as a microbiology teaching tool.
Outside of the classroom, Adkins-Jablonsky’s work has been given numerous awards and has recently been exhibited in Birmingham, AL (2021); Greensboro, Selma, and Columbiana, AL (2020); and Madison, WI (2019).
Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky uses bacterial cultures and science illustrations as a playground for aesthetic and scientific exploration. During her Ph.D., funded by the National Science Foundation, she studied how agar art, or paintings using bacteria, can be used as a microbiology teaching tool.
Outside of the classroom, Adkins-Jablonsky’s work has been given numerous awards and has recently been exhibited in Birmingham, AL (2021); Greensboro, Selma, and Columbiana, AL (2020); and Madison, WI (2019).