Connie Clark

Connie has a prestigious professional background with SRMI, an international publishing company as their in-house ad agency manager. She also worked in advertising and circulation for the publications, and was assistant Vice-President. Connie also worked for IPC, a publishing and trade show management company, managing all aspects of conferences and trade shows; and was the associate editor of magazines. She has worked for PWCC, big six accounting/consulting firm, along with providing sales and marketing support, coordinating special events, and coordinated participation in trade shows. As the volunteer coordinator for the nonprofit, Boerne Community Theatre, Connie is also special events chair, board member, and stage manager. As an HCCArts board member and Boerne Community Theatre Liaison, Connie highly supports the HCCArts mission statement and is excited to offer her experience and energy toward meeting the goals of the Hill Country Council for the Arts and Boerne Community Theatre.

David Querbach

David Querbach is no stranger to the Boerne arts scene. An artist himself, he just completed his second term as President of the Boerne Professional Artists Association (BPA). As a sixteen year veteran of the hospitality industry and a member of the Boerne Tourism Council, if there is an event in Boerne, there is a good chance David is a part of it. He manages the Boerne Market Days, co-directs the Boerne Hill Country Christmas with Bob Caran Productions and coordinates the monthly Second Saturday Art and Wine event participants to mention a few. David and his wife Necole opened Garden Path Gallery here in 1996.

Donald Darst

Donald has garnered years of experience leading and working with groups as a facilitator, corporate management trainer,  and team builder to schools in crisis, companies and universities.  He has also done significant public speaking at events, seminars and conventions; taught at the university level. Donald was the Mayor of Grey Forest for four years and council person for six. Mayors of small towns manage everything from garbage contracts to emergency management procedures. As mayor he was instrumental in collaborating with the City of San Antonio in purchasing 400 acres as a park through their proposition 3 and 1, and working with San Antonio and the State of Texas in obtaining grants to purchase another area of 43 acres for a natural area park, as well as setting up a board for its development and management. 

Donald is an established artist as an oil painter, partner & president of the Carriage House Gallery, and manages the Carriage House Gallery web site, as well as his own.  He is co-chairman of the annual Grey Forest Open Studios art tour. His art work is seen in several galleries in Texas and Wisconsin. Donald is the president of Boerne Professional Artists and member of Oil Painters of America. He is active in Art and Conservation, Second Saturday, Parade of Artists, Grey Forest Open Studios and Hill Country Invitational. 

Donald has a strong desire to promote art and collaboration in the arts. He envisions a cultural atmosphere that combines fun, learning, and dialogue about art with economic benefits to the surrounding community. His vision includes the increased understanding by the community and its leaders that art plays an integral part in quality of life of a community, enriching life experience with creativity, beauty, and feelings; and is a contributor to the economic vitality of the community.

Doris Perez

Doris Perez has had an appreciation for the creative process her entire life. She has worn many hats over the years, including a 15 year career in retail management, an opportunity in the historic house museum field, and creating a position at the El Paso Museum of Art as their first Museum School Coordinator. Upon arriving in Boerne, Doris worked at the Eclectic Collection Art Gallery and most recently, as the Volunteer Coordinator at the Cibolo Nature Center. She is now the Director of Operations for the CNC.

Doris and her husband Bob have lived many places over the years, and made a conscious “quality of life” decision to relocate to the Boerne area with their two daughters, Marina and Aubrey.

Greg Talford

Greg Talford is currently the president and chairperson of the Kerrville Performing Arts Society (www.kpas.org). He is also their Artistic Director. Greg’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music degrees from Central Michigan University. His professional experience encompasses being responsible for Sales & Marketing for Village Builders (residential construction) until 1999. During the 1980s, Greg was the University Bands Conductor at the University of Houston; previously at Oklahoma State University and Western Michigan University. In the 1970s, he was Director of High School Bands at Traverse City High School and Music Department Chairman at Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. Greg brings to the HCCArts multiple talents and skills focused on organizational management, education/outreach, marketing, and programming. His vision for the arts in the Texas Hill Country is to “create a cultural ‘gem’ in the hill country as a destination for all forms of the arts.”

Lynne Janzen

Lynne’s experience in the last 35 years has been in all facets of art. With a BA degree in Fine Arts from UT El Paso and her husband being a professional artist and Professor in the Art department for 16 years, she has had many years of experience with artists and how they think and see the world!

Lynne also owned and operated three fine art galleries in El Paso from 1974 to 1982, with a large framing operation. She worked directly with many artists from all over Texas and the nation, She learned direct marketing early on through her retail experiences. In 1983, Lynne moved to San Francisco and became Director of a large gallery , Hanson Galleries, who owned eight galleries in major cities across the country. Within a few years, she was asked to do sales training and traveled to each gallery for three weeks at a time.

In 1994, Lynne then became partners with the owner of the company and opened a sculpture gallery and fine art gallery in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. This added a whole other dimension to her experience as she was integrated into the operations of the hotel. From 1999 to 2010 Lynne was associated with Christopher Clark Fine Art in San Francisco. They work exclusively with 18th and 19th Century Fine Art, adding another valuable dimension to her experiences. “I felt as though I was in a daily art history class.” Lynne worked with them until her retirement in 2010.

Lynne has a keen interest in fundraising and looks forward to contributing to the energetic Hill Country Council for the Arts.

Paula Brigham Horner

Paula Brigham Horner received years of experience at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Historic New Orleans Collection, and the National World War II Museum, and served on the Board of Directors of A Studio in the Woods, a multi-disciplined artists' haven, while pursuing an M.A., 2005, in Non-Profit Administration from the University of New Orleans. Horner found refuge at the Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, Texas, where she served as Curator, 2007-9, after arriving in San Antonio on the tail of Hurricane Katrina. On behalf of the arts in Texas Hill Country, Brigham-Horner is currently a contributing writer for the Boerne Star. 

Rob Ziegler

Rob Ziegler has made Texas his home for 32 years. He and Lucy, his wife of 20 years, moved to Boerne from Corpus Christi nine years ago. Rob earned a restaurant and hotel management degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

During his 39-year career in the hospitality and beverage industries, he has held senior management positions in business development, product management, sales, and marketing. A steady hand, Rob worked for the same company for 30 years until launching his "second career" as president of Smart Wine Media, LLC.Rob is an avid supporter of public broadcasting and the arts.

He was instrumental in creating the San Antonio Express-News Wine Festival, which donates all proceeds to public television station KLRN. Rob was a member of the Boerne City Council from 2006-2010, working with Boerne citizens and city staff to keep Boerne a great place to live.

Sharon Benedict

Sharon is an ICF credentialed Professional Life Coach and Consultant, specializing in Lifeskills Development, Wellness, and the Creative Arts. Her diverse background includes Bachelor/Master Degrees in the creative arts/crafts with minors in business and industrial arts education. For more than twenty years she produced fiber sculptures/weavings, and jewelry. Sharon was also the Program Manager for a highly successful university arts/crafts program (UC Davis Craft Center) and designed a newly expanded facility. Sharon believes within each person is a unique capacity for creativity and full potential when one’s life, work, and creativity are in synergy.

Sonja Howle

Sonja has worked in San Antonio Media for over 12 years . . . television, network radio, public radio.  A former partner of Wizard of Ads-Austin, she created the marketing curriculum "Art as a Tool of Marketing" for the Wizard Academy.  She's written and researched corporate art programs that have extended brands, sales and the arts.  When the Hill Country Council for the Arts was chosen to become the 9th Business Committee for the Arts affiliate in the nation, Sonja became the Director.