Isabel Farrell

2015-2017 President

Isabel Farrell

Isabell Farrell began her service on the Board in 2013. Her job was to produce the quarterly newsletter. She changed the name from “All Rag”, extended its pages, gave it a new format and renamed it “The Palette Dispatch.”

In 2014 Isabell was elected to the position of the Presidency of WSNC. She defined very specific goals, the first being some internal housekeeping and updating. The WSNC board worked hard reviewing our mission statement, the operations, procedures, and documents. The Board revised the WSNC bylaws. They created new board positions and deleted others; edited job descriptions modifying and clarifying directors’ roles, striving to give them more autonomy.

Isabell also focused on creating the WSNC “brand” making a more easily recognizable entity in the state. Thus, she mandated use of the WSNC logo, designed by board member, Richard Staat of Oak Island, on anything and everything having to do with WSNC -- all documents, legal contracts, printed material, labels, stationary, signage, etc. Under Isabell they also revisited and updated all the content of WSNC paperwork, redesigning legal documents and contracts. Isabell also established a WSNC Facebook page to facilitate communication among the membership with the availability of group email and obtained a WSNC presence on Instagram. And WSNC began the sale of WSNC branded accessories.

Isabell invited Eng Pua of Carrboro into our ranks. His skillset has been proven invaluable and that is an understatement. He has digitized all of our processes and made our web site very accessible.

As an aid to guide everyone in the endeavor of describing personnel required, detailed job descriptions for various positions for the Annual Juried Exhibition, Isabel compiled an extended version of the original 12-page Exhibition Handbook, an internal guidebook for planning the Annual Exhibition. She eliminated the Membership Directory and replaced it with the annual WSNC Exhibition Catalogue, which includes all images comprising the annual exhibition and profiles of award winners, as well as membership lists. Isabel also initiated the Signature pins to honor members’ continued excellence in production of artwork. These pins were designed by our board member, John Anderson of Hendersonville. She overhauled the Traveling Exhibition giving it a new format and process. She implemented the new Permanent Collection Purchase Award in 2014 to ensure annual additions of stellar new artwork from our members and steadily expand our permanent collection.



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