2026 UAB Center for the Arts Board Members
Our boards, comprised of area civic and business leaders, were created to support and promote the programs of the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), Alys Stephens Center (ASC), ArtPlay Community Art Education (ArtPlay), and Arts in Medicine (AIM).
Corporate Board
- Ray L. Watts, Chair, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Charles D. Perry, Jr., Immediate Past Chair, Community Leader and Philanthropist
- Stephen Armstrong, O’Neal Industries
- Jeffrey A. Bayer, Bayer Ventures
- F. Dixon Brooke, Jr., EBSCO
- Jane Stephens Comer, Community Leader and Philanthropist
- Kim Morgan Day, Community Leader and Philanthropist
- Jim Dixon, Arlington Holding Company
- James Gorrie, Brasfield and Gorrie
- Wade Harrison, Protective Life Corporation
- Danny McKinney, McKinney Capital
- Emmett McLean, Community Leader and Philanthropist
- Guy K. Mitchell, III, DeShazo LLC
- G. Ruffner Page, Jr., O’Neal Industries
- Sanjay K. Singh, CS Equities
- Mark J. Tarr, Encompass Health
- Nancy P. Watts, Community Leader and Philanthropist
Advisory Board
- Valerie Collins Thomas, Chair, The Val Group
- Rahul Thadani, Vice Chair, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Karen Piassick, Immediate Past Chair, Community Leader & Philanthropist
- Gail L. Bayer, Community Leader & Philanthropist
- Annie K. Butrus, Artist, Community Leader & Philanthropist
- Anne-Laura Cook, VIVA Health
- Rita Cowell, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Christopher Daniel, Sheffield & Lentine, P.C.
- Neil E. Davis, Davis Architects, Inc.
- Jay Ezelle, Starnes Davis Florie, LLP
- Katherine Glenn, LIV Creative
- Grace Goodrich, The Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation
- Elizabeth Hamlin, Community Leader & Philanthropist
- Gaynell H. Hendricks, Jefferson County Tax Assessor
- Ron Houston, HRG Consulting
- Rosilyn Houston, Santander Holdings USA, Inc.
- CeCe Lacey Kennedy, Southern Company
- Rupa Kitchens, Urology Centers of Alabama
- Timothy Lee, Alabama Heart & Vascular, PC
- David Loper, Protective Foundation
- Allen Montgomery, Community Leader & Philanthropist
- Howard Neiswender, Dentons Sirote
- Dorothy D. Pak, University of Alabama System
- Sasha Sealy, Community Leader & Philanthropist
- Bart Stephens, EBSCO & Lakeview Marina
- Erin K. Stephenson, PNC Bank
- Steven Thomas, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Pat Tuer, Encompass Health
- Brian R. Willman, Regions Bank