2024 ALWCA Team Member LeaDERSHIP GROUP
Serving the women of
Alabama is a team effort!
● President & Social Media – Kimberly Hart
● Vice President – Rachel Lackey
● Treasurer - Amanda Banks
● Secretary – Lexie Robinson
● Membership – Misty Granade
● Exhibition Chair - Tara Seagers
● Birmingham Pod Leader – Tara Stallworth Lee
● Communications - April Harris
● Webmaster – Cynthia Wagner
● Vice President – Rachel Lackey
● Treasurer - Amanda Banks
● Secretary – Lexie Robinson
● Membership – Misty Granade
● Exhibition Chair - Tara Seagers
● Birmingham Pod Leader – Tara Stallworth Lee
● Communications - April Harris
● Webmaster – Cynthia Wagner
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 - Lexie Robinson
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 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 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.