Daniel P. Kelliher

President

Daniel Kelliher is the managing member of Kelliher & Salzer, LLC, a law firm with offices in Columbia, Maryland and New Orleans, Louisiana which focuses on commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Kelliher has been on the board of ACCR since 2004. In addition to being on the ACCR board, Mr. Kelliher also serves on the board of Community Homes Housing, Inc., a non-profit in Columbia, Maryland which owns affordable housing sites in Columbia.

“I will always be thankful that my colleague, Cindy Stewart, offered me an opportunity to become involved with ACCR. I have learned so much from the non-profits where we have done placements, about the communities which they serve, and the great work that is being accomplished. I am consistently humbled by the talent, passion and great generosity of the artists who have agreed to donate their work to deserving non-profits. I am excited that ACCR continues to increase the number of placements it can accomplish and I am confidant that these placements will have a significant impact on the people served by our non-profit recipients.”

Susan Kim

Secretary

   Susan Kim is a freelance journalist who writes and edits for the World Council of Churches, Mennonite Disaster Service, and The Business Monthly newspaper. Ms. Kim has appeared in Baltimore's Stoop Storytelling Series three times, twice on Baltimore's Center Stage and once at the Columbia Festival of the Arts in Howard County, MD. She earned a Master's in Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Maryland.

Monica Tucker-Harley

Monica Tucker-Harley is a museum professional turned Navy spouse and expert cross-country road trip planner who resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. She holds a BA in Anthropology and MA in Museum Studies, both from San Francisco State University where she also taught as a guest lecturer.  Though most of her professional career was spent as a Museum Collections Manager, she has also done work in the field as a Curator, Historical Interpreter, Development Manager, and Grant Writer.  Monica proudly served on committees within the California Museum Association and American Association of Museums Registrar’s Committee, as well as Vice President of the community arts organization Works/San Jose.  

Alpine Chandler Bird

Founding Member/Emeritus

Alpine Bird’s interest in arts and healthcare began in high school as a candy striper at Children’s Hospital in Boston. She earned her BA in Italian Literature at Brown University with a minor in Art. She taught a year at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, MA, graduated from their Teacher Training Program and earned her Massachusetts teaching credentials as an Art Specialist. She became a full time art teacher at the Maret School in Washington, DC (grades 2-12) for 4 years. She pursued ceramics at Montgomery College and later taught classes to neighborhood children in her home and as a volunteer in public and private schools. She has studied with Joan Kellogg at the Mandala Assessment and Research Institute, with Mona Brooks at the National Learning Center, has taken courses in Art Therapy at George Washington University. She is also certified as a yoga teacher and in Level 1 for both Reiki and Cranial Sacral work.

As a teacher Alpine searched for ways to engage children who doubted their “artistic ability”, motivating them to trust their ability to learn to visually communicate their unique, ever-changing viewpoints and feelings. Alpine embraced a similar challenge working with diverse adults in a hospital setting through her position as a Smith Center Artist-in-Residence at Washington Hospital Center. During the seven years she volunteered in the cancer wards, she worked bedside, in the waiting rooms and in infusion chemotherapy labs with patients, family and friends to help them to express themselves visually and by using art materials.

Alpine is a founding member of ACCR’s Board of Trustees and is the daughter of the late Fay Chandler, The Art Connection’s founder.

 Why I became interested in ACCR, in the words of Alpine:     

"Over the years, I watched the Art Connection grow from an idea in my mother’s mind into an organized mission that provided lasting showcases and appreciative audiences for unsold original artwork while simultaneously enlivening the surroundings of the underserved.  I witnessed attitudes and even behaviors change as non-profit staff became involved in the process, as clients discussed the work on their walls and as artists responded to the appreciation their work generated.  As I watched, I became a believer in both the healing power of art and in the ability of people to help each other through its appreciation and, in doing so, to sometimes discover surprising new viewpoints, new energy and new interest in life. I was hooked."