PRESIDENT
Lara Kruger
SECRETARY
Sherry Willets
TREASURER
Robyn Jones
Robyn Jones is pleased to offer her extensive skill and knowledge in the business world to our team as Treasurer for 2022. Having most recently founded and co-owned Foothills Insurance Services Ltd along with her husband and Route 22 artist, Alan Jones, Robyn worked for many years previously as a senior agent in the insurance worlds of B.C and Alberta.
She has served with integrity and a strong work ethic throughout her career and is now enjoying retirement after the successful sale of the company she and Alan owned and operated for more than a decade.
DIRECTOR
Karen Chaisson
BOOKKEEPER
Wendi Forster
LEADERSHIP TEAM CHAIR
Cindy Zampa
Cindy and her family moved to Cochrane in 1999. She first identified herself as an artist after joining the Foothills Art Club in Cochrane. Surrounded by other supportive creatives, Cindy gained the confidence to begin showing, then selling, her artwork.
After decades of teaching and counselling in a Calgary school district, Cindy was granted a sabbatical to pursue studies in art therapy. Working as an Art Therapist (Vancouver Art Therapy Institute), tremendous benefits were observed in sessions she offered at various schools throughout the district. This confirmed what Cindy already suspected based on her own life experience – art heals!
In retirement, Cindy has fully embraced the creative life. Always looking for new ways to build community connections and collaborate with other artists, Cindy was actively involved in the early planning stages of this artist’s collective, even before it established its identity as Route 22 Gallery.
Cindy is honoured and excited by the opportunity to work with fellow artists, as Chair of the Executive Leadership Team, bringing more beauty, art, cultural and educational experiences to the community.
EDUCATION LEAD
Ele Davis
Ele joins us as our Education Lead because she has a strong passion for the visual arts and supporting it in her own community. She has a degree in Fine Art and another in Education from the University of Calgary and has taught high school art for most of her 30 year teaching career.
She has studied painting in Florence, Italy at the Angel Academy of Art, and has also spent time studying in France. Recently, Ele experienced two months in Berlin, the contemporary art capital of the world, on an artist’s residency furthering her understanding of current directions in fine art.
Ele has also enjoyed a successful career painting large scale murals throughout Alberta and Nunavut and hopes, one day, to create one or two in her home community.
Through our education program, she hopes to facilitate the creative growth of our diverse community and artist populace in the Cochrane area.
SOCIAL MEDIA LEAD
Rachelle Kearl
Rachelle is currently the Social Media liason for our collective; her job is to use both Instagram and Facebook to keep our fans in the know and to grow our base of followers and supporters. We have so much to share!
Rachelle is a fellow member of the collective who loves to paint gorgeous florals.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH LEAD
Suzanne Goyetche
Suzanne was born in Bridgewater, NS and moved to Cochrane in her senior years to be with family. East meets West, she quickly fell in love with the beauty of the foothills and the mountains, a true contrast from the oceans and sand beaches of her early years.
Suzanne has tried several mediums, she now works in professional coloured pencil painting which is a very meditative medium. She brings 30 years of skills of a Certified Tour Director to the group. The challenges of planning a perfect experience and being able to pivot to a new direction when plan A hits a road block, knowing how to listen to clients wants and needs, story telling to make an itinerary interesting and captivating for the clients.
She is proud to be a member of Route 22 and looks forward to the challenges the Community Outreach will bring to the canvas.
FUNDRAISING LEAD
Denise Smith
Denise brings to the gallery years of experience from her prior role as a business owner of an information technology and management consulting corporation.
As the gallery fundraiser leader this allows her to connect to the community and beyond, as she supports the gallery in achieving a strong and vibrant Arts Community.
Denise is now semi-retired and is fortunate to be part of the executive team by assisting them to deliver fundraising initiatives for the Artist Collective.