JAY ALTHOUSE, from Raleigh, N. C., is a composer and arranger of music for school performing groups. He and his wife, Sally, have collected folk art for almost 30 years.

RAMONA AUSTIN is the former Curator of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.

LYNNE BROWNE, from Highlands, N.C., is a folk art collector.

The late GEORGINE CLARKE was visual arts program manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. She went to France as part of the official Alabama delegation.

NED CROUCH is adjunct curator for special projects at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center, Clarksville, Tenn.

The late MARY ANNE DEANE was a retired pre-school teacher and a member of the Board of Directors of the Folk Art Society.

WILLIAM L. ELLIS is an associate professor of music at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. He wrote the entry on Tripp for the Folk Art volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2013) and wrote about Edwin Jeffery Jr. for the Spring 2014 Folk Art Messenger.

MATT GEIGER is a journalist and author living in Wisconsin. His recent book, The Geiger Counter: Raised by Wolves & Other Stories, (HenschelHAUS/2016) is available now in stores and online. Visit his website: http://www.geigerbooks.com [46].

BUD GOLDSTONE worked from 1955 to 1981 as an engineer for North American Aviation. From 1959 to his death in 2012, he volunteered as a conservation engineer for the preservation of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, a National Historic Landmark in Los Angeles. In 1959, he ran a controlled scientific proof-load test and stress analysis on the Watts Towers that proved them to be stable and prevented the city from demolishing them. He wrote the proposal for a $1,900,000 grant from FEMA to repair earthquake damage to Watts Towers and also a $485,000 grant to repair earthquake damage to the California State Landmark, Bottle Village, in Simi Valley. With his wife, Arloa Paquin Goldstone, he was the author of The Los Angeles Watts Towers, published by the J. Paul Getty Foundation in 1997. You can see a full obituary in The Folk Art Messenger #82 [51].

LARRY HARRIS is an architect, photographer and art collector who lives in Houston. His website: www.narrowlarry.com [56] is dedicated to the documentation of visionary folk art environments throughout the United States.

BERNARD HERMAN is the George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and Chair of the Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper, and many other books. His forthcoming book, Fever Within: the Art of Ronald Lockett, will be published in June. The concurrent exhibition will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum, June 21-September 18, 2016, then travel to the High Museum of Art and the Ackland Art Museum.

The late FRANK HOLT was the former director of the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, FL.

JANE M. JOEL is a free-lance writer in Richmond, Va.

RANDALL LOTT, a software executive living in Manitou Springs, CO, collects folk art and is a member of the Folk Art Society’s National Advisory Board.

KYLE MANCUSO is the Curatorial Research Associate at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

CAROL MILLSOM recently retired as professor of child development and education at New York University.

ANN OPPENHIMER is the Executive Director of the Folk Art Society of America

WILLIAM OPPENHIMER is a retired obstetrician/gynecologist and a member of the FASA Board of Directors.

The late TONY RAJER was an art conservator, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a member of the FASA's National Advisory Board.

SCOTT ROTHSTEIN is an artist who lives in Santa Fe.

THOMAS E. SCANLIN is a retired jewelry designer and owner of Studio Jewelers in Dahlonega, Ga.

JAMES SELLMAN is the President of the Folk Art Society of America. He and his wife Barbara have been traveling throughout the world collecting art for more than 35 years and have been members of the Folk Art Society of America for 22 years. They have donated more than 200 pieces of traditional African art to Richmond's Virginia Union University, and they have made significant gifts of drawings and paintings by Thornton Dial to that and other American institutions. The Sellmans have spent the past 25 years supporting African American artists, exhibitions and other academic projects. Since 1978, Sellman has served on the Clinical Faculty of the Medical College of Virginia-VCU Medical School. In 2001, he was recognized by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill as one of the 35 outstanding psychiatrists in America.

The late E. LEE SHEPARD was Vice President for Collections and Sallie and William B. Thalhimer III Senior Archivist of the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, Va.

CAROL MILLSOM STUDER recently retired as professor of child development and education at New York University.

The late VICTOR STUDER was director of tea research at Thomas J. Lipton Co., and a member of the Folk Art Society's National Advisory Board.

ADRIAN SWAIN is the former Curator at the Kentucky Folk Art Center, Morehead State University.

SUSANNE THEIS was formerly the director of the Orange Show Foundation in Houston, Tex

KENNETH WALKER is a folk art collector in Silver Spring, Md.

BETH WILTSHIRE is a peer (though not a Peer Specialist), and she has worked in Rapid Access, Medical Records and as a receptionist in Mental Health.