Board of Directors at The Arts Center
Adriana Channel, President, Vice President of Marketing & Secretary at Davis Trust Company, is a wife and mother. She has her BS in Marketing, and is board secretary to Davis Trust Company. She has completed her Leadership Randolph class and is now focusing on Leadership West Virginia. In the warm months she hikes and competes in Spartan races. Her constant goal in her position at Davis Trust, is to strengthen the community and volunteers with programs to help better the county. She is actively involved at The Arts Center and
Scott Goddard, Vice President, is from Ligonier, PA, and a community leader in Elkins, WV, with a strong passion for education, entertainment and the arts. He is the Vice President for Student Advancement at Davis & Elkins College, leading student life and enhancing the learning environment through student involvement in extra-curricular programming and leadership development. In the Elkins community, he is on the board for Elkins Main Street, and the YMCA, both helping our community. He successfully organized numerous entertainment events in the community and has connected TAC with new performers assisting the growth of the arts programming. Scott holds a B.A. in Marketing and Management from Davis & Elkins College and a M.A. in Educational Leadership from WVU.
Clark Evans, Treasurer, is an Elkins native, and a Senior Staff Accountant at Carte Hall CPAs. Clark is a 2005 graduate of Davis & Elkins College with a B.S. in Marketing. He is active in the community, musically talented, passionate in the arts with a philosophy that “the arts are necessary to a well rounded individual.”
Kylie Proudfoot-Payne, Secretary, lives in Belington, WV. When asked what I do my response is most simply, “I am an artist.” Things become a bit more interesting when I attempt to explain how I incorporate my art throughout all aspects of my life. No matter the medium, my art is connected through the teaching process, whether I am receiving the information, giving the information, or mutually sharing. Both the process and communication is integral to the exchange of art and ideas. In my 13th year as a teaching artist with ArtsBank Inc, a K-5 artist residency program in Randolph County, I have grown not only as an educator, but as an artist as well. ArtsBank allows me to design and develop programs and ideas that the students need. Exposure to the Arts is essential for the health of humanity!
Macie Higgins, is a small batch potter in Elkins, with a BFA degree, creating unique ceramic works from her home studio using both wheel throwing and hand building techniques. She has a particular interest in the use of color and texture in her work. Macie’s work is always evolving due to her interest in learning new techniques and her joy in experimentation. She has been instructing pottery classes at the Arts Center since the summer of 2014, and she truly enjoys being able to share her passion and expertise with the people in her community. Macie actively serves on the Volunteer and Exhibitions Committee with The Arts Center for a year prior to being on the board.
Erin Brown, Marketing and Business Development Manager at Connected Electrical, is a transplant to Elkins, but immediately felt at home. She is actively involved in various sectors of the community. She loves to be outside, read, cook and bake! She is inspired by the creativity of the Arts Center, and encourages and supports the mission of our organization. Her roles and responsibilities are to come to meetings ready to engage in the happenings of the Arts Center. She is passionate about spreading awareness of the services provided by the Arts Center to friends within the community and coming to support events. She believes that art in our communities is a staple to create a more well-rounded population which will then help the entire community thrive.
Lissa Eason, Executive Director of Elkins Main Street. Moved to Elkins 13 years ago and is a Mom to Max, a super cool 13 year old. She is active in supporting the mission of The Arts Center and is involved heavily in the community and a board member with Kiwanis.
Marijane Kiley, Local piano teacher in Elkins, member of the Women's Club of Elkins, and an arts advocate. More is coming soon.
Dorothy H. “Dottie” Wamsley was born in Hazelton, WV, (Preston County) to the late Harrold and Mabel Herring. She attended Davis & Elkins College and various banking schools. She later made her career as Vice-President of Huntington National Bank, and retired after 35.5 years of service. She resides in Elkins, WV, with her husband Robert “Bob” Wamsley, has 3 step children, four grandsons, and two great grandsons. She is a member of First United Methodist Church in Elkins. Dottie believes in the community and presently serves as a Life Trustee Emeritus at D&E College serving on the Student Life and Life & Institutional Advancement Committees. She is a member of Rotary Club, cabinet member with Tygart Valley United Way, Women’s Club of Elkins, board member for ERCC, board member with Mountain Memories Assisted Living and Retirement Center, and board member for the Maple Leaf Society with the MSFF. She has an extensive background with past community services.
Steve Jory is a self-described museum rat and supporter of the arts, having developed his interest in college art history classes and through visits to scores of art museums from the Americas to Europe and New Zealand. He retired from a 47-year career in the legal profession in Elkins, during which he served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, and for many years in private practice. Steve is an active Rotarian (past President), and a former board member of the Elkins YMCA (past President), the Davis Health System Foundation, and the Randolph County Development Authority. He is married to Jean who taught English at Elkins High School for more than 30 years.
Dr. Dilip Chandran, The Chandran family is originally from India and they moved to Elkins, WV, in February 1974. Dilip was almost 7 years old. He had the privilege of being raised in Elkins, and attending the public-school system, where he graduated from Elkins High School in 1984. He attended college from 1984-1988 at the State University of New York in Binghamton, NY. He subsequently went to the West Virginia University School of Medicine from 1988 through 1992 and completed a combined residency in Family Medicine & Psychiatry in 1998. Since completing his professional training, he has worked in a variety of settings including primary care, private practice, community Psychiatry and now in academic Psychiatry at the WVU Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry. He presently enjoys combining clinical medicine with teaching medical students/trainees and various scholarship pursuits. Dilip has many passions including traveling, listening/playing music, tasting international foods, meeting diverse people and helping others with a variety of goals/tasks. He has played in bands regionally and he is very proud of the teamwork in creating multiple musical recordings since 1996, as well as networking with many musicians and artists in the area for the last 30 years.
Scott Fleming, Arron “Scott” Fleming, PhD, CPA, CMA is currently the Dean of Business, Humanities, and Social Sciences for the West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Beckley campus), an accounting faculty member of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University, and facilitates multiple projects across the WVU system, including the involvement of higher education within the annual Locked Shields cybersecurity event. He served formerly as an associate professor of accounting, the chair of the Accounting Department (2012-2015) in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University, the Senior Director for the Center for Executive Education (2018-2022), he served as the Interim Executive Director of the anti-fraud think tank The Institute for Fraud Prevention (2017-2018), he served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Accounting Association (2016-2017), and he has served multiple times as the president of the West Virginia Council of Accounting Educators.
Tessa Garver-Daniels is an artist working in Elkins, WV. A mother to two small children, a wife, and art teacher. Currently, Tessa is instructing at Elkins Middle School and is an adjunct professor at D&E College. She has been teaching for nine years in Randolph County Schools. She is West Virginia Art Education Association’s President-Elect. She serves as a board member with The Arts Center and as an elder in Davis Memorial Presbyterian church. She earned her Masters in Art Education from Kent State University. She is an active artist focusing mostly in printmaking, murals and sculpture. She won Randolph County Schools 2023 Teacher of the Year. She also won The West Virginia Art Education Association Art Educator of the Year for 2023.
Emeritus: June Myles, Margo Blevin Denton, Gary Schoonover, and Victor Thacker
Board Responsibilities
The Arts Center’s Board of Directors is a working board, supporting fully the mission of The Arts Center to ensure success! All board members are required to serve committees, get involved in fundraising and volunteering, strategic planning and are visual and vocal ambassadors! Every board member provides a unique perspective and volunteers regularly at events and with community activity.