GIAC Contact & Board or Directors

The Garden Island Arts Council is a private, non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization that is supported by its membership, private business, individuals, and funding support from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the County of Kaua‘i and Hawaii Community Foundation – Gwenfread Elaine Allen Fund and Annie Sinclair Knudsen Fund.
Contact information
	Garden Island Arts Council
	PO Box 827
	Lihue, HI 96766
	808-245-2733 (phone)	808-246-4577 (fax)
	giac@hawaiilink.net

Board of Directors
Officers
	President	Sandy Breckenridge
	Vice President	Linda Collins-Chapman
	Treasurer	R. Eve Solomon
	Secretary	Carrie Johnson
Members
	Nancy Beckel, Janet Killerman, Gregory H. Meyers, John Sydney Yamane
Executive Director		Carol K. Yotsuda
SFCA Commissioner for Kaua‘i		Judge Alfred Laureta
ARTS Newsletter
	Editor	Anne E. O'Malley
	Design & Layout	Andarta Design
Web Site Design & Production		Carrie Johnson
Web Hosting		Net Kauai

Biographies
	Sandy Breckenridge - President
	A Graduate of the Seattle Burnley School of Commercial Art, Sandy and life partner, Kirk VandenBerghe, came to Kaua'i in 1998. Their business, HeartCore Corporation, is an umbrella for their web based creative endeavors which is international in scope. Sandy's interests include art, writing, web site development, intuition coaching and home building. Through their tapes, books, and websites, she enjoys facilitating people in following their hearts and their creative paths.
	Linda Collins-Chapman - Vice President
	Linda Collins Chapman graduated from the University of Colorado with a BFA in ceramics and has been a professional ceramist for 30 years. Her work has been shown in many venues, including the American Crafts Council shows in San Francisco and Baltimore and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. She has received an invitation to exhibit at the Bienalle Internazionale in Florence, Italy. She taught ceramics at the Kaua'i Academy of Creative Arts.
	R. Eve Solomon - Treasurer
	With an extensive background in graphics, display and puppet theater, Eve has taught commercial art, calligraphy and arts and crafts, at Island School and for the Kaua'i Crafts Studio. She is a past Director of the Kaua'i Academy of Creative Arts and displays her paintings and jewelry at The Art Shop in Lihu'e. She's a veteran board member with the GIAC and served actively with the KSA for many years.
	Carrie Johnson - Secretary
	Carrie Johnson studied fine art at U.C. Berkeley and at Laney College in Oakland. She has participated in shows and various events in the San Francisco Bay area and on Kaua'i since moving here about five years ago. Painting as time permits, Carrie has sold paintings and drawings to private collectors on island and on the mainland. She is a cast member in the Whole World Improv Theater.
	Nancy Beckel - Board Member
	A native Texan, Nancy gave up the cold winters in Oklahoma and Missouri to live in Hawai'i in 1975. Mother of two students, she's coordinated the PTA "Reflections" national cultural arts program on Kaua'i for many years. She has enjoyed extensive museum hopping in New York City, Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna; she's also dragged her daughter through so many European churches that her daughter thought she might consider the convent. She is a sales representative for jewelry manufacturing companies in Honolulu and the mainland.
	Janet Killerman - Board Member
	Originally from Pennsylvania, Janet has called Hawai'i home since1973. A graduate of University of Hawai'i - Manoa with an art history degree, she moved to Kaua'i in 1979 and worked in advertising until they started a family. She returned to school to get an elementary teaching certificate and has taught for a couple of years. "I want to help with GIAC because Carol and the organization have given me and others like myself such a great opportunity to exhibit and view other's work."
	Gregory H. Meyers - Board Member
	Born and raised as a down-to-earth midwest boy in the suburbs of Detroit, Greg moved to the Big Island in 2001, and more recently to Kauai in April 2003, to run the Kaua'i Office of the Hawai'i Legal Aid Society. Greg's interest in the Garden Island Arts Council stems from his admiration of Carol Yotsuda and GIAC's vast array of contributing members.
	John Sydney Yamane - Board Member
	A third-generation local boy from Waimea, a computer technician by trade and community man by heart, owns Hawai'i Wireless & Broadband dba Hawaii Link Internet Service, located upstairs from the current Garden Island Arts Council gallery in Harbor Mall. His business provides internet services and websites to over 200 local businesses. He's the past president of West Kaua'i Business Association, West Kaua'i Rotary Club and Kaua'i Food Bank. We're pleased that GIAC has uplinked to John's heart.
	Carol K. Yotsuda - Executive Director
	A charter member of the GIAC and its first president, Carol has been an active volunteer in the arts for over three decades. She started the E Kanikapila Kakou program, the Kaua'i Crafts Studio and has served as Director of the Kaua'i Academy of Creative Arts. She has an MFA from the University of Hawai'i and is a practicing artist and a retired art teacher. Presently, she serves as Executive Director of the GIAC and works tirelessly to bring enrichment to the lives of the people of Kaua'i via the arts.
	Anne E. O'Malley - Editor, ARTS Newsletter
	Anne E. O'Malley, editor of ARTS, the Garden Island Arts Council newsletter, is a freelance writer and photojournalist. Her work appears regularly in local publications and is cast in bronze (no joke) along the Koloa Heritage Trail on Kaua`i and soon to be seen in Washington, D.C. as a set of five interpretive panels accompanying an exhibition titled "Our Nation's Crown Jewels: Rare and Endangered Plants of Hawai'i" at the United States Botanic Garden. She plans future editorial wheels with the GIAC executive director, board members and friends of ARTS.