Committee Chair
Mary Weimer Green, MA, CAS

Art Specialist, Urban Community School, Cleveland, Ohio

Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts Department, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio

An arts educator and graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Mary has worked and exhibited locally for many years.  She is particularly interested in utilizing her expertise in working with students to enhance and expand Arts Collinwood’s educational and family programs.

Nancy Prudic, MFA

Associate Professor of Visual Art and Area Chair of Fine Arts, Lake Erie College

Nancy has spent the past 30 years in Cleveland as a working artist, educator and gallery director. Previously Supervisor of Museum Classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, she is currently a member of the Visual Arts Faculty at Lake Erie College.  She lives and has raised her family on Collinwood’s Overlook Park Drive.  Along with serving on the Cleveland Sculpture Center’s Exhibition committee, she brings her considerable experience to bear in chairing Arts Collinwood’s Gallery Committee.

Dale Hilton

Director, Distance Learning

Department of Education and Public Programs, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Dale Hilton has managed The Cleveland Museum of Art’s distance learning program since its inception in 1998.  She holds an M.A. in Art History from The University of Chicago and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Ms. Hilton’s duties include lesson development, script writing, teacher/client relations, overseeing scheduling and development of companion publications to distance learning lessons, budgeting, training Education staff in lesson development and presentation and directing teams of classroom teachers in creating new lessons.  In addition she has extensive on-camera experience in presenting distance learning lessons.  In Ms. Hilton’s 16 years on the museum staff she has served as an Instructor in the Education Department presenting lectures, gallery talks, Teacher Resource Center Workshops.

Christopher Luciani

Cultural Arts Manager, City of Cleveland

Chris Luciani has managed the Cleveland Bureau of Cultural Arts for the past 11 years, and prior to that he spent 5 years as head of the Cleveland Music School Settlement’s Extension Department. Mr. Luciani has brought several new programs to Cleveland citizens during his tenure, such as the National Arts Program, a Youth Performing Art Series which includes the annual Dance Fest, Holiday Play and Talent Showcase, and the grant funded programs Mural My Neighborhood and Excellence Through the Arts. Mr. Luciani is a creative drama specialist, director, actor and children’s theater playwright who has had over a dozen of his plays produced by local children’s theaters in the Cleveland area. He has taught creative drama classes at the Rainey Institute for the past 15 years.

MaryBeth Matthews

Atelier/Director, All City Arts Program, Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Fine Arts Department Chair, Max S Hayes High School

MaryBeth Matthews has been an arts educator and an active influence in the Cleveland Arts Community for many years.  She has been instrumental in pairing young people with opportunities to engage in arts apprenticeships and other meaningful participatory arts experiences.  She specializes in working with youth and cultural activism.

Robert Thurmer

Director, Cleveland State University Art Gallery

Robert is an active practitioner in Cleveland’s arts scene – as well as an instructor in Cleveland State University’s Fine Arts Program, and Director of CSU Art Galleries.  His background is in the visual arts, and his focus is on curatorial work, as well as mentoring and developing fine arts students and student volunteers.