The Ridgefield Arts Council is an eleven member volunteer municipal council, appointed by the Board of Selectman of the Town of Ridgefield, Connecticut and charged with fostering and promoting the Ridgefield arts community. We strive to connect artists with audiences and each other through this website, social media and our signature events.
The full council meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm in the downstairs conference room at Town Hall. These meetings are open to the public. To learn more about our members, please click on the links below.
Alison Greeley
Chair
Anne Marcus
Treasurer
Khristee Rich
Secretary
Ruth Wilder Feldman
Carolina Fernandez
Paul Gervais
Andrew Levine
Kay Mahr
The council is also supported by auxiliary members who serve as advisors. Many of these volunteers are former members of the Ridgefield Arts Council and/or serve in leadership positions in local arts and cultural organizations or work as independent artists. Their support is most appreciated by the council.
Nancy C. Andrews, former Chair
Noelle Carr*
Suzanne Enser-Ryan
Linda Haines
Isaac Hirt-Manheimer*
Emelie Howard*
Stan Madaloni*
Bill Marcus
Daniela Sikora
Sabina Slavin*
Allison Stockel*
Meg Collins Stoop*
*former council member
If you are interested in joining the Ridgefield Arts Council as an appointed member, an auxiliary member, as a volunteer or you have a general information question, please contact us. We would love to hear from you!
Ridgefield Arts Council
Town Hall
400 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
info@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Chair
Chair, Cultural Festival Committee
Member, Communications Committee
Member, Development Committee
agreeley@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Alison Greeley joined the arts council to renew her passion for the arts in 2006. New to Ridgefield, she saw the Arts Council as a way to both give back to her new community and to support the arts. After studying Art History at the University of Virginia and in Rome and London, Alison embarked on a fifteen-year career as a project manager for a global financial services firm. Alison has since left the world of finance to spend more time with her young family. She serves as Chair and brings her corporate planning experience to the council.
Treasurer
Chair, Development Committee
Member, Cultural Festival Committee
amarcus@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Anne Marcus is a former corporate and broadcast television writer and producer for companies including Fox Broadcasting Company, PBS, FNN, IBM, Newsweek, Citibank, Liz Claiborne, Booz, Allen & Hamilton and EF Hutton. She wrote a column for the New York Post for several years and has been a contributing writer to several books and numerous magazines and newspapers. She has also worked extensively with the American Council for the Arts in New York City as well as nonprofits LEAD and SLCD. Currently a marketing and communications professional she conducts marketing research, creates events, websites, marketing collateral, and strategic/development plans for companies and nonprofits. Former executive director of the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, and prior to that, communications manager for Darien-based nonprofit social services agency Person-to-Person, Anne is treasurer of the Ridgefield Arts Council, a member of the Chekhov Festival committee and co-producer of the popular local event, Art Walk. A wife, mother of three and avid fiction and nonfiction reader and writer, she also enjoys traveling, horseback riding, sailing and skiing.
Secretary
Member, Cultural Festival Committee
Member, Communications Committee
krich@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Khristee Rich is proud to be a member of the Ridgefield Arts Council. Currently Khristee is the publicist and secretary for the Ridgefield Arts Council. She is also president of her own comedy business, The Dancing Curtain LLC, which produces sketch comedy, improvisation, and standup throughout Connecticut, New York, and beyond and offers acting and inspirational classes for all ages. Khristee is a comedic actress, an author of children’s stories, plays, and comedy skits, and hopes to write a novel or two soon.
Chair, Communications Committee
Member, Cultural Festival Committee
Member, Networking Committee
rwilderfeldman@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Ruth Wilder Feldman brings to the arts council her project management skills gained in over 20 years in television production and promotions and special events marketing. She has been a stay-at-home Mom for the last twelve years during which time she completed her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College. In addition to her work on the council, she serves her community as a Girl Scout leader, PTA volunteer, and Neighborhood Association volunteer. Ruth joined the arts council in 2007 to contribute her skills toward one of her personal passions, the arts. She served as Treasurer and is the website manager for www.ridgefieldartscouncil.org. Ruth and her husband and two children have lived in Ridgefield since 1999 and value a home and community environment filled with creative expression through the performing, literary, and visual arts.
Chair, Networking Committee
Member, Communications Committee
cfernandez@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Carolina Fernandez, is an author, artist and advisor. She earned an M.B.A. (1981) and worked in sales at IBM before cutting her teeth in the fiercely competitive financial services industry, first in investment banking and then at Merrill Lynch. She left her practice in the middle of the roaring bull market of the 1980’s to come home and start a family. During that time, she authored two books, ROCKET MOM! and Country French Kitchens. A visual and performing artist, she has undertaken projects ranging from hooking rugs to painting in oils to singing onstage in Carnegie Hall. She has developed strong convictions about the role of the arts in child—and adult—development, and is committed to inspiring creativity in people of all ages.
Chair, Behind the Scenes Honors Committee
Member, Development Committee
pgervais@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Paul Gervais is a 17 year resident of Ridgefield. The former owner of Building Blocks Art Supplies, Paul is presently an art broker under the name of "The Paul Gervais Gallery". As an art broker he represents local / regional artists in getting their works exhibited in venues other then galleries. Additionally, Paul works with interior decorators and stagers in providing them with access to art work. Paul is also a real estate agent with William Pitt Sotheby's in Ridgefield.
Member, Communications Committee
alevine@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Andrew Levine’s professional career is fueled by broad and diverse interests and skills and encompasses the roles of musician, educator, theatre producer, business consultant and creative director. The one constant in these diverse adventures has always been a search for how we best employ our creative powers in the world. Andrew is currently the Creative Director for The Opportunity Show, a startup business emanating from the work of management consultant Mark Monchek and his company, PerformXcellence. The Opportunity Show seeks to educate, inspire and guide small and midsize businesses to be more effective and innovative harvesters of their resources. Andrew also serves as Artistic Producing Director of Flying Machine Productions, overseeing the development of new theater works, providing general management services and recommending investments in commercial theatrical productions. Credits include Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, at the Savoy Theater in London (associate producers ’08-‘09), Speed The Plow, by David Mamet at the Barrymore Theatre, Blood Type: Ragu, by Frank Ingrasciotta (’09 at the Actors’ Playhouse) and The Blue Flower, by Jim and Ruth Bauer, (co-produced with composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz), and coming to American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, MA) this November. Andrew was trained as a musician and composer and spent four years as the resident music director for the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Member, Behind the Scenes Award Committee
Member, Development Committee
Member, Cultural Festival Committee
kmayr@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
Kay Mayr trained as a singer actress from an early age. Kay graduated from Western Connecticut University, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in Speech and Theatre in 1976. She worked for fifteen years in the Radio Broadcasting field as a General Sales Manager, with WLAD/WDAQ in Danbury and Tribune Broadcasting's WICC in Bridgeport. While in broadcasting Kay served as the President of American Women in Radio and Television -New England. Kay shifted to the Corporate Gifts and Awards field and eventually started her own Award business, which she continues to operate.
Ridgefield Arts Council
400 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
203-431-2700
info@ridgefieldartscouncil.org
which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
