Board + Staff

Board Chair – Jon Chodosh | Rangeley, ME + New York, NY

Jon Chodosh is the managing principal of Chodosh Realty Services, Inc., a commercial real estate consulting firm formed in 1987, in New York City.  The firm is involved in transactional and consulting work, as well as in real estate development and construction management, specializing in adaptive re-use of warehouse and loft properties.  Over the last thirty years, Jon’s client list has included Dia Art Foundation, Irving Penn Foundation, Qatsi Productions, Communication Workers of America, Pentagram, Imagination Co (USA), Duravit (USA), Ian Schrager Company, Waterworks, and others. Jon is a 1974 graduate of Hampshire College.  He lives in New York City and Rangeley, Maine with his wife Claire Seidl.  They have three grown children.

First Vice Chair – Charles Altschul | Camden, ME

Charles Altschul’s early love of photography fostered interests in design, publishing and letterpress printing. In 1986, when new digital tools were changing the creative landscape, Altschul returned to Yale University to pursue a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Graphic Design. While steeped in traditional ideas and methods, Altschul embraced the new tools and began to push the aesthetic boundaries of what they made possible. Upon graduation, he was asked to join the faculty and among other responsibilities, taught the first course in digital photography within the School of Art.

Altschul moved to Camden in 1991 to become Director of Education at the newly-opened Kodak Center for Creative Imaging. He subsequently helped several art schools integrate digital technologies into their curricula, notably creating the nation’s first Bachelor’s program in Multimedia at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In 2006, Altschul returned full-time to Maine to become President of Maine Media Workshops + College and lead its renaissance as a nonprofit institution. He is a member of the core faculty in the school’s MFA program, an Executive Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and President Emeritus of the Farnsworth Art Museum.

Second Vice Chair – Carolyn Watson | Belfast, ME

Carolyn Watson is an internationally recognized designer and restoration specialist as well as a dedicated philanthropist. Over the course of her career, she has led projects as diverse as the restoration of historic churches, design of a Chalet in France, to the interior and exterior lighting for both Art Center Europe and Art Center’s Pasadena campus, where she also taught. She recently completed a major gate commission for the Huntington Library and Gardens in Pasadena, California. Carolyn apprenticed with renowned American designer, Paul Tuttle and developed a unique mastery of materials for her interior, landscape, furniture and lighting designs. Carolyn founded Watson Design Associates in 1981(now Watson Design Group/WDG) specializing in world-class design, restoration, planning and project management.

Among her many accomplishments and awards, Carolyn received, along with her husband, the 2017 Gold Crown Award from the Pasadena Arts Council for their work in the arts in California. In 2015 Professional Child Development Associates (PCDA) of Pasadena named her Humanitarian of the Year for her specific contributions to the arts and youth with autism. Following this recognition, the Carolyn Watson Arts Scholarship fund was started at PCDA, providing permanent funds to help families to pay for high quality summer and after-school arts programs.

Carolyn’s Board service is extensive: Northern Westchester Center for the Arts (NY); Save the Children (Cold Spring Harbor, NY); Pasadena Symphony and Pops
Member of Art Center 100, a fundraising Board to raise money for Scholarships at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena); South Pasadena Educational Foundation; Fellows of the Huntington Library and Gardens.

Secretary – Sue Michlovitz | Camden, ME

Sue Michlovitz is a visual artist, whose mediums include photography, artist books and mixed media. Among the places she has shown her work include: Blue Raven Gallery (Rockland, ME),Cove Street Arts (Portland, ME), Griffin Museum of Photography Lafayette Center (Boston, MA), Maine Jewish Museum (Portland, ME), Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (Portland, ME), Photoville at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Mass), The Parsonage Gallery (Searsport, ME), and State of the Art Gallery (Ithaca, NY).

She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Media Arts from Maine Media College and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Orthopedic Physical Therapy. In her 48+ year career as a physical therapist she participated in education of doctoral and masters students, mentoring clinicians, clinical care, and research as a Professor at Temple University and Hahnemann University (now Drexel). Michlovitz participated in nine medical missions with Guatemala Healing Hands Foundation.

Dr. Michlovitz has served on boards for American Society of Hand Therapists (and as 2013 President), American Association for Surgery of the Hand, Hand Surgery Endowment, and Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY. She lives in Camden with her husband Paul Velleman and their two ever-so-happy beagles.

Treasurer – Rick Franklin | Warren, ME

Rick Franklin is a founder of Constant Therapeutics and has served as its President and CEO since its inception. He was a director of Raptor Pharmaceuticals, until its sale to Horizon Pharma in 2016. Rick received his MD from Boston University Medical School and his PhD (Mathematics) from Brandeis University. Rick is an enthusiastic golfer and a lover of classical music and films. He is married to Mary Joe Hughes (Josie), a former Trustee and long-term summer resident of Warren, ME.

Roberta Baumann | Rockland, ME

Roberta is a fine art photographer and educator with a background in American history and arts education. She earned her BA from Washington College and pursued graduate studies in Germany and Kenya. After teaching middle school social studies in Maryland, she founded an elementary art program for Baltimore County and later served as a docent at both the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. A dedicated supporter of CMCA for nearly 20 years, Roberta has volunteered in education, events, and development. She has been involved with ArtLab since its inception, guiding students through exhibitions and hands-on projects. Roberta was among CMCA’s first business sponsors and is an avid collector of contemporary Maine art. 

Helen Baumeister | Spruce Head, ME

Helen Baumeister studied fine arts at Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and France. She did not return to art until she retired. In the interim, Helen specialized in financial services; first in technology, then consulting and strategic planning. She worked with wealth managers, investment managers, trust companies, and other financial market players. Helen retired from Accenture as an Associate Partner in Strategic Services. Once retired, she was a trustee at Trudeau Institute for 17 years as Chairs of Development and Governance. Helen served on CMCA’s Events Committee as a volunteer for ten years. She also returned to creating art. Helen and her husband John reside full-time on Rackliff Island in a house they designed from an online plan. They are avid collectors, focusing on contemporary art by Maine’s established and emerging artists. Helen considers herself an occasional painter, mostly exploring mixed media.

Jennifer Clark | Northern Virginia + Camden Maine 

Jen Clark studied contemporary art at Smith College, where she became enamored with both contemporary art and museums as a Museum Educator at the Smith College Museum of Art. After graduation, she held positions at both MoMA PS1 and the Met, later pivoting to a career in marketing and advertising in the Martech space. In her free time, Jen takes advantage of Washington, DC’s many museums and galleries and enjoys rock climbing.

Carolyn Davis | Rockland, ME + Fort Lauderdale, FL

Carolyn received her BA in American Studies for University of Maryland.  Several years after graduating, she moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The majority of Carolyn’s career was in Employee Benefits including almost 25 years at Seitlin Benefits, a division of Seitlin Insurance, one of the largest privately held insurance agencies in Florida. Carolyn started as a consultant/broker at Seitlin Benefits and after 6 years, she became President. Under her leadership, many value added solutions were developed for Seitlin’s clients to included Technology Based Administration Solutions, Enhanced Financial Analysis, Legal Compliance Support, and Employee and Dependent Advisory Support. She also recruited superior talent in each discipline, which provided exceptional depth of expertise. Seitlin Benefits was then well positioned to secure high profile clients to include Bacardi, The Breakers, Miami Heat, and Carnival Cruise Lines. During her tenure at Seiltin Benefits, Carolyn served on United Healthcare’s National Advisory Board, Aetna’s National Advisory Council, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Agents Council.

After retiring, Carolyn redirected her energy to not for profit organizations. She chaired United Way of Broward County Endowment Committee, and was a member of their Tocqueville Steering committee. She was a Board member and then Board Chair of ARC Broward, an organization that serves people with development disabilities. More recently Carolyn served on several Community Foundation of Broward’s Grant  committees and was Team Captain of a  Grant Committee for Funding Arts Broward for 4 years, 

In 2001, lured by Maine’s natural beauty—which spoke to their joy of hiking, biking, and sailing—Carolyn and her husband Ned Black, purchased a town home in Rockland.  Their attraction to the area grew even stronger as they discovered the quality and abundance of its visual and performing arts.

Susan Deutsch | Owls Head, ME

Susan began her career as a City Planner after receiving a Master’s degree from Columbia University. She soon joined Citibank and then Paine Webber working in the fields of municipal investment banking and real estate finance focusing on affordable housing throughout the United States. As a fervent art collector with her husband Carlisle Towery for many years, Susan joined the Board of the Farnsworth Art Museum as Treasurer becoming Board President, and is currently President Emerita. Susan has been active in the community since moving to Maine full time in 2017, recently joining the Owls Head Planning Board and the Adas Yoshuron Synagogue Board.

Carol Eisenberg | Rockland, ME

Carol began her career as an advertising copywriter and graphic designer within the publishing industry. In 1969, after being forced by company policy to leave her job at a large East Coast publishing company because she was five months pregnant, Carol joined the Women’s Movement and in 1972 decided to go to law school (instead of art school as originally contemplated). Carol spent the next 36 years practicing law in New York and New Jersey. During that time, she held leadership positions in a variety of prestigious professional organizations. She was awarded an AV rating by Martindale Hubbell. After retiring to Maine with her late husband, Dr. William B. Benjamin, Carol decided to return to her original career as an artist. She obtained her MFA degree in 2016 and is currently living and working as an artist in Rockland, Maine.

Christine Kondoleon | Waldoboro, ME

Dr. Christine Kondoleon is the Chair Emerita of the Art of Ancient Greece and Rome at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. As Chair she led the renovations and reinterpretations of 12 new galleries of Greek, Roman and Byzantine art for the Behrakis Wing of Ancient Art at the MFA Boston that opened in December 2021.  She was the curator of the highly successful “Cy Twombly: Making Past Present” and the editor of the accompanying exhibition catalogue (Getty Center and MFA Boston 2022-2023). In addition to publications of this world-renowned collection, she has also organized the exhibition Games for the Gods in 2004, and her Aphrodite and the Gods of Love, the first exhibition on the goddess of love in 2011. She was formerly the Curator of Ancient Art at the Worcester Art Museum where she organized the 2000-2001 exhibition Antioch: The Lost Ancient City. She has worked with contemporary artists from Greece to promote the Greek Art today exhibition at the SMFA and with Chuck Close for a show at the Worcester Art Museum. She was Associate Professor of Art at Williams College (1982-1995) where she also served as Chair of the Department and Acting Director of Clark Art Institute Graduate Program. She was an invited Resident at the American Academy in Rome in 2007 and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Tufts University. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1985.  Her special field is later Roman and Early Byzantine Art and mosaics. She and her husband, Frederic Wittmann, have a residence in Waldoboro, Maine, where they spend several months a year. 

Sarah Mudge | Brooklyn, NY + Washington, CT

Sarah grew up in Camden, Maine, and visits this area frequently, as she considers Midcoast Maine her home. Sarah’s professional background is in fine art. She has held senior positions at Phillips Auction House and Sperone Westwater Gallery, where she worked with prominent private collectors, curators, and institutions. A trained auctioneer, Sarah is an active member of the community in Washington, CT. Currently she is a fine art appraiser and advisor at Winston Art Group, based in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Classics and Italian Studies from Brown University and is a candidate for certification with the Appraisers Association of America. Sarah lives in Brooklyn with her two school-aged children.

Martin F. Pera, PHD | Mount Desert Island, ME

Martin Pera is a Professor at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Pera received his BA in English Language and Literature from the College of William and Mary, and his PhD in Pharmacology from George Washington University, and he has worked in universities and research institutes in the UK, Australia, and the United States. Pera’s research is focused on human pluripotent stem cells, cells that can be grown indefinitely in the laboratory and can turn into any type of body cell. These properties make pluripotent stem cells powerful tools for studying human disease and for creating new cell therapies for a range of currently intractable medical conditions. His laboratory at Monash University in Australia was the second in the world to isolate embryonic stem cells from the human blastocyst and the first to describe their differentiation into somatic cells (neurons) in vitro. At the Jackson Laboratory, the Pera laboratory uses human and mouse pluripotent stem cells to develop precision genetic models of disorders of the central nervous system. Recently, his team has embarked on a new project to develop a next-generation cell therapy for macular degeneration.  His wife is the renowned Australian landscape painter Joanna Logue. The couple lives in Somesville on Mount Desert Island.

Pamela Schreiber | Philadelphia, PA + Islesboro, ME

Pam received her BS from Cornell University and an MS from the Columbia University School of Social Work. She began her career as a Psychiatric Social Worker in New York City, working in Mental Health Services before developing her own private psychotherapy practice in Philadelphia.  Later in her career, she became a Vice President for Investor Relations for a publicly traded company in Philadelphia, winning an award from a National Retail Investors’ Society.  Pam co-founded The Philadelphia Weekend Film Festival, celebrating the work of Hollywood film directors by inviting them to the City where local audiences could meet and appreciate them in person. Pam currently serves on several boards, including as Emeritus Chair and ongoing advisory board member for the Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research at the University of Pennsylvania & the Rosenbach Museum and Library.  She also serves as an Ambassador for the Barnes Foundation; a member of the Collections Committee at the Atheneum; and a member of the Pepper Council for the Free Library of Philadelphia. She spends her summers in Islesboro, Maine where she serves as an advisory board member of the Islesboro Island Trust.

Michael Sherman | Camden, ME + Los Angeles, CA

Michael Sherman is a movie producer; he co-founded Bow and Arrow Entertainment, a production company that focuses on artist driven narrative and documentary pictures.  Bow and Arrow has premiered 14 films at the Sundance Film Festival as well as many other festivals throughout the world. Sherman’s recent films include HORSEGIRLS, A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY, and the recently completed LOSER, the debut film from writer and director Colleen McGuiness starring Angourie Rice, Finn Bennett, Lukas Gage, and Julia Fox.  

Sherman spends his summers in Camden, where he’s set up the Sherman Family Foundation Residency. The residency brings one artist to Maine each summer. Sherman is also a devoted patron of the arts. He serves as a trustee at his hometown Baltimore Museum of Art as well as on the boards of The Aldrich Museum, The Bronx Museum, and Forge Project. 

Catherine Steiner-Adair | Tenants Harbor, ME

Catherine Steiner-Adair grew up on the edges of the film industry, where she became acutely aware of the power of visual images in film, photography and art, and curious about issues of cultural impact and accountability. An internationally recognized clinical psychologist, researcher, and author, her work as a research associate at Harvard Medical School focused on how messages in the culture either support or undermine kids from living to their creative and intellectual potential. Author of the award-winning book, The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age (WSJ top 10 best non-fiction book of the year in 2013) she consults educators, health professionals, media creators, and organizations worldwide on how to ensure today’s children have both the technological savvy and the tools of our humanity to thrive in the AI world.

In her youth, Catherine trained as a dancer at both Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey schools and taught dance at Bowdoin College while an undergraduate. She fell in love with drawing and painting later in life, is a classically trained oil painter, and has studied with several Maine landscape painters. Catherine serves on several boards related to children’s mental health and well-being and is an advisor to mid-coast non-profits. She maintains a small clinical and consulting practice; and lives in Tenants Harbor with her husband Fred Adair.

William Stites | Thomaston, ME

Bill Stites earned a BFA from Emerson College and has been a commercial photographer for over 40 years. His work has appeared in, House and Garden, House Beautiful, Esquire, Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, Traditional Home, and many others. He is also the photographer of The Sporting Life, Living with Dogs, The Anglers Life, and The Gardeners Life, published by Clarkson Potter/ Random House books. Other book publishing credits include Doubleday, Little Brown, and Penguin. When he wasn’t working behind the camera he bought, renovated, and rebranded Seascape Ocean Resort, the highly acclaimed small resort in the Florida Keys (1994-2005). He now lives full time in Thomaston, Maine.

Karen Brace | Camden, ME + Needham, MA

Marty Jones | South Thomaston, ME + Sarasota, FL

Marilyn Moss Rockefeller | Camden, ME

Mary Jo (Josie) Hughes | Warren, ME + Milton MA

Martin E. Lloyd | Camden, ME

Susan Petersmeyer | Camden, ME

Sandra J. Ruch | Northport, ME

Davis Thomas | Camden, ME

Suzette McAvoy | Belfast, ME

Helen Baumeister (Advisory Council Chair, Trustee) | Spruce Head, ME

Jon Chodosh (Board Chair, Trustee) | Rangeley, ME + New York, NY

Robert Wolterstorff (Executive Director) | Rockport, ME

Grant Wahlquist (Curator) | Vinalhaven, ME

John Bird | Rockland, ME

John Bisbee | Brunswick, ME

Gideon Bok | Camden, ME

Karen Brace (Board Chair Emeritus) | Camden, ME + Needham, MA

Bruce Brown (Curator Emeritus) | Portland, ME

Christopher Crosman | Thomaston, ME

Ariel Hall | Camden, ME

David Hopkins | North Haven, ME

Mary Joe (Josie) Hughes | Warren, ME + Milton, MA

Marty Jones (Board Chair Emeritus) | South Thomaston, ME + Sarasota, FL

Paul Keenan | Cushing, ME + New York, NY

Jack McKenney | Chicago, IL

Robin Wood Sailer | Rockport, ME + New York, NY

Jay Stern | Rockport, ME

Duncan Stout | Portland, ME

Jeff Tucker | Camden, ME + Tampa, FL

Christine Vincent | Vinalhaven, ME + Boston, MA

Sandy Weisman | South Thomaston, ME

Mark Wethli | Brunswick, ME