Vice-President

• Responsibilities – Assists the President as needed and performs the President’s official duties in the absence of the President. Serves as a member of the Executive Committee.
• Qualifications – Long standing interest in the arts, experience serving on board or in leadership role in a non-profit, for-profit or government organization.

Candidate:  Tronja Anglero—Tronja Anglero  was elected to the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Art (FCCA) Board in 2020 and serves as Vice President. She also is the Community Outreach chair for Women Caucus For Art DC Chapter (WCADC). Tronja has a yearning for helping women recognize, harness, and utilize their talents and resources for the betterment of themselves and their communities. By creating community through art, education and social activism. She has implemented fundraising through call of entry, for issues surrounding activism and created scholarships to assist disadvantaged communities for higher education. Tronja has an innate ability to support others through mentorship, leadership and collective team work. She mentors young women with portfolio,and application reviews. Her leadership skills include reaching out to community resources for partnership venues. Curating exhibits, acquisition of art and installation. She collectively facilitates concept design for marketing and promotional material. Tronja has a passion for painting stories surrounding women to enlighten and inspire. She was commissioned to do a portrait (mural) of Vice President Kamala Harris for inauguration located in Washington DC. Her work has been exhibited in MD, DC, VA, NC, OH, PA and CA. Her works are in private and public collections nationwide. She has a B.F.A., Fine Art/ Illustration from Pratt Institute Brooklyn N.Y. (https://www.TronjaGallery.com)

CALL FOR ENTRIES:  FCCA and Community Bank of the Chesapeake Community Art Exhibit

Submit by email

(August 2021)

All FCCA  Members are invited to submit entries for the 2021 Winter exhibit at the downtown branch of the Bank located at 425 William Street.  The Exhibit will run for four months.

Tronja Anglero, FCCA Vice President, along with Matt Williams, FCCA President, will coordinate the selection and installation of the art.  All work must be for sale, properly framed and ready to hang (with gallery hooks and wire).  If art is sold, 25% of the purchase price will go to FCCA.  Work must remain on display through the duration of the exhibition, which will run from  September 18, 2021 through January 16,2022.  If a piece sells, the artist will be encouraged to bring in a replacement work.

FCCA Members  are invited to submit up to three works of art for this show.  Work MUST be submitted digitally via email to [email protected] . THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE FOR THIS SHOW.  Submissions are due August 27, 2021.  Notifications of accepted work will be sent out via email on Tuesday, August 31.  Accepted works must be delivered to the CBTC branch at 425 William Street the morning of Saturday, September 18 between 10:00-11:00 (or dropped off early at FCCA with prior notice).

Procedures and requirements are the same as those for submitting to FCCA Include the following information:

• Artist Name
• Mailing Address
• Phone Number(s)

And the following information for each piece:

• Title (Lastname_firstname_title.jpg)
• Media
• Framed size (HxWxD)
• Price
• 20 word or less description of the artwork – location, background, mood, etc. (this particular item is very important & was requested by CBTC)

Pictures MUST be in JPG form (if you take pictures with a smartphone, they usually need to be converted to JPEG).

Images should be no larger than 1600 pixels in the longest dimension.

If you have any questions, please contact Tronja Anglero, FCCA Vice President at [email protected] or Matt Williams, FCCA President, at [email protected] .