Directors
The Board of Directors meet monthly and is the governing body responsible for CCAC policies and operations. Each Board Member is Chairperson for one or more of the Committees that carry out CCAC’s work.
2025 Board of Directors
President: Linda Whitcomb
Linda is a realtor at Raveis Real Estate and serves on the Board of Directors for the John F Kennedy Museum. She received her degree at Worcester State College.
Vice President: Jane Reed
She is the daughter of a noted medical illustrator who also painted landscapes and western art his entire life. As a child living in Maryland, her favorite field trips were visiting the National Gallery of Art. No school field trip could ever compare! She moved to Michigan in 1960 and in junior high read a book called Paintbox Summer that introduced her to Peter Hunt and the apprentices at his studio in Provincetown. In Michigan, she later studied elementary education at tiny Adrian College, raised her family and taught elementary school for 39 years. In 2012, she met Alan (who is an amazing artisan), moved to Nantucket in 2013 and was fortunate to spend 3 1/2 years there soaking up art events and collecting Nantucket artists’ art. They moved to Cummaquid in 2017.
Treasurer: TBA
Secretary: Lynn Richards
Lynn has a masters degree in public health nursing from Boston College. She moved to the Cape in 1977 and was a visiting nurse for many years. In the early 1990’s, when her children were getting older, she did something that she had always wanted to do, take art classes. She took classes in many different media at CCAC, then called the Cape Cod Art Association. In an oil painting class with Howard Bush, she found her medium. After a few years of classes, Howard encouraged her to go through the jury process and she became a juried member. She also joined the board of CCAA in the 1990’s and designed and produced the original monthly Palette Newsletter, a one page, black and white mailer typed out on an Apple 2E computer using a primitive version of Photo Shop. After a decade or so hiatus when her studio became an arts and crafts studio for grandchildren, she picked up her brushes about 7 years ago and returned to her happy place at CCAC for oil painting classes. During the pandemic, she joined the Monday Painters, a group of artists who sell their artwork on the Dennis Green every Monday throughout the summer. From these generous artists Lynn learned to display and price her work and experienced validation of selling. The CCAC gift shop has also outlet for her cards and prints and miniature paintings. Lynn is delighted to return to the CCAC board. She has served on several other non-profit boards, including a six year stint as Board Chair of Cape Cod Academy and currently a board member of the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth.
Executive Director: Roberta Miller
Roberta is a graduate of the University of MA, Amherst and has a Masters in Education and had a 23 year career in education as a media specialist, information technology expert and an Adjunct Professor at Framingham State College teaching technology courses for Educators in the MEd program. While Roberta spent part of her childhood on Cape Cod, she and her husband David moved here full time in 2004 and she quickly became active in the Cape Cod Art Center. She first joined the Board in 2005, served as our president and then volunteered as our full time, unpaid Executive Director. Roberta is an accomplished photographer and is very active in the Barnstable community. She is the Chair of the Barnstable Village Cultural District and a partner in the Hyannis Cultural District.
Directors
Kerri Allen
Kerri has a Bachelors Degree from St Michael’s College in Vermont and is currently working at Racepoint Global in Boston as a VP/Controller.
Lauren Connolly
Lauren has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications & Education from Salem State University. She is presently working at The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod as the Assistant Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner.
Jesse Ensling
Jesse Ensling is a master sculptor and a Juried Member of Cape Cod Art Center. His work in stone transcends the ordinary, breathing life into materials that have stood the test of time. Specializing in marble, onyx, alabaster, and limestone, Jesse approaches each piece with a profound respect for the stone’s natural properties, allowing its inherent qualities to guide his creative process. His sculptures, often described as expressionistic and abstract, are characterized by their fluidity and movement, despite being carved from some of the hardest materials on earth.
Debra Kennedy
Deb Kennedy has been a member of the Cape Cod Art Center for many years and a juried artist for most. As an artist, she works in oils, and has taught beginning oils classes for the Sandwich Arts Alliance. In addition to her life as an artist, she is currently semi-retired but still works as an executive coach and leadership development specialist with Keystone Partners in Boston and in private practice. Over the course of a long career, she was a seasoned business leader with proven results and a broad background in leading organizations, launching new business units and looking for innovative solutions. Deb spent more than 25 years in corporate leadership in the energy industry and higher education. As a General Manager in the energy industry, she led finance and marketing business divisions, redesigning processes within established operating units to enhance performance and profitability. Most recently, as the founding Director of Executive Education at Bentley University, she launched the business unit and excelled in designing and facilitating innovative leadership programs for corporations as well as teaching Global Strategy. Credentials include: MBA, Babson College, Wesley Ma, BSBA, Finance, University of Toledo, IPEC Professional Coaching Certification.
Jakki Koufmann
Jakki is a juried artist member and frequent award-winning exhibitor with the CCAC. She was recently elected a Master Artist. Jakki lives in Truro and taught painting at
PAAM and Castle Hill. She has also taught art in a dozen states, including Alaska, and in the Yukon. Prior to moving back to Massachusetts, she lived for extended periods in Juneau, Santa Fe and British Columbia. Jakki graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Fine Art, from Brandeis University. Upon graduation, she was awarded a Sachar International Fellowship for one year of sculpture study in Pietrasanta, Italy. She completed her study of painting with four years at the Art Students League
of New York.
Barbara Panico
I am honored and I hope that my past experience in fundraising, communication and volunteering will make me an asset to the Board. I have collaborated on annual campaigns for the Connecticut Children’s Law Center and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center as well as serving on PTO Boards for five years. My husband David and I split our time between North Eastham and Avon, CT and have three grown children. I am a Juried Artist member of our CCAC and look forward to seeing the center thrive for another 75 years.
Christine Parent
Christine is a graduate of Barnstable High School after which she received her business degree from Saint Michael’s College. She currently is a Portfolio Manager, Officer AVP at The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod where she focuses on Small Business. Prior to that she was the Operations Manager for Cape & Plymouth Business Magazine. She is currently the President of the Barnstable Boys Volleyball Booster Club and has served on the Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod’s Charitably Giving Board.
John Schiraga
His interest in photography started 50 years ago. As both my camera and my darkroom/post processing skills have developed, so has my interest in joining with other photographers and sharing my knowledge. I am a Juried Artist in Photography at the Cape Cod Art Center and I am involved in five camera clubs and the Cape Cod Digital Art Group, of which I play a leadership role in three: one being the Co-Chair of the Cape Cod Camera Club. I look forward to joining the Board of the Cape Cod Art Center so that I can be a liaison with the Camera Club and support the leadership of the Cape Cod Arts Center.