EASTON, MD – The Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, has announced changes to its Board of Trustees. Four new trustees have been appointed to the Board: Julie Madden, Chuck Mangold, Jr., Roy McGrath, and Karen Shook.
“We welcome an extremely talented group of new board members, who bring a wealth of experience in marketing, arts activism, government service, education, and journalism. We look forward to their service to the Museum and to the energy they will bring to our Board of Trustees,” states Ben Simons, Director of the Academy Art Museum. Catherine McCoy, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, comments, “We are so grateful for the talent we have had on our board over the years. With the incoming Trustees, the Museum is poised for a bright future as we complete Capital Campaign improvements to our building over the next year.”
Chuck Mangold, Jr. has been a Talbot County resident since the age of eight. He completed an associate degree at Chesapeake College and later attended Loyola College in Baltimore. After a 13-year career in the retail automobile business, Chuck joined Benson & Mangold. He is on the Board of Directors for the Mid Shore Board of Realtors and has served as a past board member of Habitat Choptank, The Country School, and the Talbot County Chamber of Commerce. He lives in Easton with his wife Lauren and their three sons Charlie, Robbie, and Peter.
Julia (Julie) Madden, a lifelong arts activist and supporter, worked as Maryland’s Director of Arts and Community Initiatives implementing cultural programs for the Office of the Governor. In addition to the Maryland State Arts Council, she serves on the boards of the Maryland Citizens for the Arts, the Maryland Humanities, the Commission on Artistic Property, the Maryland Historical Society, the World War 1 Centennial Commission, as well as the Walters Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art (ex-officio). Julie holds an M.A. in Decorative Arts from the Smithsonian-Corcoran College of Art and Design and is a graduate of Leadership Maryland class of 2017. She and her husband Marty divide their time between homes in St. Michaels and Clarksville.
Roy McGrath, a lifelong Marylander, is Director/CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maryland Environmental Service. He previously served on the executive staff of Governor Larry Hogan, and as the Governor’s liaison to Maryland Board of Public Works and was most recently Vice President of Business Development for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. He also served in two departments of the federal government and on the staff of former Maryland Congressman Wayne T. Gilchrest. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and a member of the University’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Board of Visitors and holds credentials from the American Society of Association Executives and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Institute for Organization Management, where he also serves as an adjunct faculty member. He lives in Edgewater.
Karen Shook is an Emmy-award winning journalist who worked at television stations in Washington and Baltimore. In the past, she has served on the D. C. Board of Education, National Council of Urban Boards of Education, and the Woman’s National Democratic Club in Washington. More recently, she has been active in numerous local organizations, including the St. Michaels Community Center and the Talbot Democratic Central Committee where she chaired two Douglass-Tubman Dinner Committees. She currently teaches water aerobics at the YMCA of the Chesapeake and is a docent leader at the Academy Art Museum. Karen holds a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan and a M.A. in American Studies from George Washington University. She lives in St. Michaels with her husband Langley. They have two adult daughters, two sons-in-law, and four grandchildren.
Departing from the Board are Amy Haines (6 years), Susan Phillips (6 years), J.T. Smith (7 years), and Debbie Willse (6 years), who all will be greatly missed. Haines enhanced the Museum particularly with her encouragement of children’s education. She and Willse co-chaired one of the Museum’s important fundraising galas and both served as enthusiastic and successful ambassadors of the Museum to the community. Smith has been an invaluable part of Museum leadership through a Capital Campaign and several significant transitions, serving as Vice Chair of the Board for four years. Phillips made great contributions to development efforts, the annual craft show, and the recently renewed docent program and is now involved in the Museum’s new Trustee Alumni Program. Also recently departing the Board is Rima Parkhurst (3 years), who served two terms on the Board, as well as many years as an invaluable volunteer and staff member. Cathy McCoy and Ben Simons write: “We thank all of our departing Trustees for their invaluable service, support, advice, and friendship during their terms on the Board. We particularly extend our thanks and appreciation to J.T. Smith, an incomparable Trustee, for his leadership during times of transition, stabilization, and growth.”
The new Trustees join Trustees Donna Alpi, Jocelyn Eysymontt, Maxine Farrell, Holly Fine, Craig Fuller, Peter Gallagher, Lisa Hunter, Jeffrey Huvelle, Kentavius Jones, Margaret Keller, Trish Malin, Catherine McCoy, Jill Meyerhoff, Carol Minarick, Jeffrey Parker, Courtney Clark Pastrick, John Pinney, Nancy Powell, Mary Ann Schindler, Nancy Trippe, Marilyn Weiner, and Hanna Woicke. The Board officers for 2020 are Catherine McCoy, Chairman; Jocelyn Eysymontt, Vice Chairman; Craig Fuller, Vice Chairman, Jeffrey Huvelle, Secretary; and John Pinney, Treasurer.