Meet our board
of directors.

LC Allingham

LC Allingham (she/her) is a Bucks County author, artist, musician and editor. She grew up in the art community as the daughter of a prominent local art teacher and watercolor artist. She received her BA in journalism from Temple University and has written professionally for over twenty years, while also working interspersedly as an artist, a graphic designer and a musician. In 2022 she co-founded the indie press, Speculation Publications, with her long-time editorial partners and serves as executive editor. She believes that art is what makes life worth living.

Clifford Eberly

Transitional Leadership Team

Clifford Eberly is an artist and curator living in Doylestown. Since January 2022, he has directed the Hicks Art Center Gallery at Bucks County Community College. Eberly holds a BFA from SCAD and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. While in California, his installations, performances, collages and paintings were exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Raid Projects (Eastside International), PØST, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, PAM, Torrance Art Museum, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Coachella Valley Arts Center, The Art Gallery at Glendale Community College, Coastline Art Gallery, and LACMA. In 2019 Eberly received the Curators LAB Grant and organized the exhibition and catalogue for CODE WORD SAFE at the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He is excited to build lasting relationships with the local community to promote the arts through education and innovative exhibitions.

Susan Forker

Recording Secretary

Susan began her career as a film and video editor in New York and then Los Angeles after her graduation from Syracuse University. After moving to Doylestown in 2006, her background as an editor using imagery to tell a story and interests as a vintage collector led her to create joeyfivecents, a brand of handmade jewelry that incorporates antique ephemera and resin. Sourcing materials from the area, she thrives on the local connection in her work between the past and the present with an emphasis on the beauty of asymmetry and imperfection found in her natural surroundings. She has written independent lifestyle pieces for Bucks Life magazine is an active member in Crafts Dept. Philly, a small collaborative of artists in the Philly metro area.

Peter Miller

Peter is an Architect whose professional career included a 25 yr Partnership/Practice centered in Philadelphia. His work included additions and renovations to Arts, Cultural, Educational and Religious museums and institutions, and custom residential projects in seven states. Recent retirement has enabled him to live primarily in Bucks County and to become more fully engaged in the Arts community.

He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, and currently serves on the Board of Governors of The Print Center in Philadelphia.

Deborah Kostianovsky

Deborah Kostianovsky worked as a child and adolescent psychiatrist for thirty years, helping underserved children in Philadelphia. While working part-time, she completed a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on philosophy of aesthetics, art history, and comparative literature. The master’s program re-ignited her longstanding passion for writing about art.

She recently transitioned from medicine to writing about the visual arts. She reviewed exhibitions and events, wrote about artwork for sale, and showcased artist-members for In Liquid, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit arts organization. She also wrote a series about art and mind for a literary magazine

Louise Levy

Louise Levy has a varied career from educator to organizational development consultant; from environmental advocacy to her current pursuit of fine art photography. She serves on the Executive Committee of The Print Center in Philadelphia, the Environmental Advisory Committee of Solebury Township, and the Board of Directors of the Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County.

She is an award-winning photographer who explores the world of light and shadow. Her work has been accepted in many juried shows including the Phillips’ Mill Photography Exhibition, and a solo show at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. She also received the Best of Show award from Destig, an international Fine Arts publication.

Linda Lefevre

Linda Fanning Lefevre is a painter best known for her abstract work. Her paintings are in the collection of the State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Reading Public Museum, the Harrisburg Hilton, Pennsylvania State University, and numerous private collections. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio School and has received numerous awards from juried exhibitions.

Her professional career was in higher education administration. Recently retired from Delaware County Community College, she also worked at Delaware Valley University, and at Harrisburg Area Community College, where she held positions as dean and executive dean. She excelled at building partnerships, including one with the State Museum of Pennsylvania on the establishment of Radius, a Fine Arts Craft giftshop, and another with the Harrisburg Hilton on the restaurant Bricco; both initiatives enhanced student learning. At Delaware Valley University she curated exhibits in the Life Sciences building. Throughout her professional career, she maintained a studio practice and exhibition record.

Linda received her BS in Arts Education from Kutztown University, and an MA in Humanities from the Pennsylvania State University. She continued her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Vermont Studio School and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Hayden Saunier

Hayden Saunier is an actor, writer, and founder/director of No River Twice, a poetry + improvisation performance group. She is the author of five books of poetry, has been awarded numerous national prizes for her work and is a former Bucks County Poet Laureate. Film and theatre credits include The Sixth Sense, House of Cards, Mindhunter and work at the Guthrie, Walnut Street, Westbeth, Arden, and Interact Theaters. Hayden believes that the arts connect us to ourselves and our communities in the deepest and most meaningful ways.

Ashara Shapiro

Ashara Shapiro’s creative journey started in the world of performance art, as a Magna Cum Laude Graduate from Emerson College with a BFA in Acting and Theater Education. She spent years as a performer and arts educator but quickly expanded her passions to include creative writing and design. Ashara has an entrepreneurial spirit and has worked on several incredible design projects in Bucks County. Her newest venture is ArtWRKD, an art consortium that has recently opened in Newtown. It is an experiential space that houses a gallery, artists in residence and workshop space. Ashara creates her wearable art brand, ARecherche from her ArtWRKD studio. Ashara also is a published poet in the anthologies, The Pandemic Project and Shocking Verbs, Lawless Nouns, and the literary magazine Neshaminy.

Julie Standig

Julie Standig has been involved in the Bucks County writing community for the past four years. She is author of two books of poetry, Memsahib Memoir, published by Plan B Press, 2017 and a full poetry collection, The Forsaken Little Black Book, Kelsay Books, 2022. Her poems have appeared in in Sadie Girl Press, Schuylkill Journal Review, Gyroscope Review, US1 Poets/Del Val, to name a few.

She is proud to be a part of the amazing writing and art community she has found here in Bucks County. Especially in our turbulent times, she believes our art and words are essential.

Melissa D. Sullivan

Melissa D. Sullivan is a writer, journalist, editor and attorney. Her short fiction can be found in Dappled Things, The Coil Magazine, and elsewhere, and her flash fic “Dear Jacqueline” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2023, she was proud to take on the role of publisher of Neshaminy: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Magazine.  A graduate of Rutgers University and Boston University School of Law, she can often be found on the mean streets of Bucks County buying yet another book.