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Fundraising Forms

This PDF document contains the White Paper which describes the organization, talks of our accomplishments and vision for the future.
Download & Print it out and bring it to businesses that might be interested in sponsoring or contributing to our events.  

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Board Officer Biographies

​Sandra Holzman, President

Sandra Holzman received her BFA from School of Visual Arts in NYC.

She set the textile world on it’s head with the development of large scale hand marbled fabrics for fashion and home furnishings. Her work is in museum collections, books, magazines and films. She was CEO and Chief Cook & Bottle Washer for Fine Art Fabrics for 20 years. This involved a crew of 11 showrooms, 6 seamstresses and many assistants producing custom fabrics for international designers.

In an effort to downsize and focus on the art part of Fine Art Fabrics, she moved to New Mexico and pursued a smaller scale of business with SandraSilk. This company produced hand painted fabrics featuring cutting edge printmaking techniques on silks for fashion.

Ms Holzman has taught these and other art techniques privately and in school settings, through the years. Business techniques have been added to this instructional repertoire.

Retirement has offered the opportunity to give back in the form of being a founding member of the Route 66 Arts Alliance, where she is currently President. She is also delving deep into printmaking on paper, involving contemporary and traditional techniques.

Sandra Vieth, Vice President

Sandra Vieth, Vice President/Music Coordinator, M.S.W., practiced as a social worker and licensed massage therapist until 2015.

Since 1985, she has performed on guitar, bass and vocals with bands at folk festivals from Seattle to Albuquerque. At the Santa Fe Traditional and Bluegrass Music Festival, she has won numerous songwriting awards with her partner, Carl Allen. Their CD, Blue Moon, will be released in 2019.

She is Vice President of the Route 66 Arts Alliance and has worked on the festivals and educational programs produced since 2015.

Jo White, Secretary

AKA: Jo White, Roaring Mouse and Jo Mama White, teacher

Earned a degree in Communications and a teaching certificate in majors of English, History, Journalism and Drama plus a minor in Art. Teaching high school, the school yearbook, teaching photography, copy, layout and design. I taught in Catholic schools of Annunciation, St. Charles Borromeo, and St. Pius. I started teaching high school at West Mesa High, Hayes Junior High, Estancia High School and Cleveland Middle School. I retired in 2006.

We started a theatre company called Melodrama Masters in 1994 in conjunction with the Edgewood Lions and the Friends of the Library Society. This was for children 10 to 18 who performed at Wildlife West.

I wrote for the local papers with a weekly column called The Roaring Mouse from the White House. Under the name the Nosey Neighbor I wrote as Hortense McCade. The papers came and went The Citizen, the Advocate, the Mountain View Observer, the Mountain View Telegraph, the Mountain View Journal, the Independent, Albuquerque Accent Magazine, and the Lions Roar.

Nowadays I am writing and punching up kids books I wrote in the 1980s. I am currently the director for the Justice Art League at the Edgewood Court House, President of the Yucca Branch National League of American Pen Women and Secretary of the Route 66 Arts Alliance.

Lisa Bryant, Treasurer

Lisa Bryant earned her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English Literature from Colorado College.

She taught painting and drawing at community colleges for several years in California. She enjoys creating and sharing her knowledge through teaching all age groups.

She also spent many years in the publishing industry as a project manager and brings her accounting skills to the Arts Alliance.

She has had numerous shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and has had her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental gallery. She has also shown work in Boulder, CO.

Board Member Biographies

Joe Channey

AKA: Mad Joe Channey

I’m a super senior (80+), who became late in life, the past 20 years or so, a wood artist who turns a piece of a tree into a second life of something beautiful to look at and to touch, all created on a wood lathe.

Laura Hanson

Laura Pinto Hansen is a criminologist, with a doctorate in sociology, who uses art as a means of escape from the grimer subject matter she researches and teaches in her professional life. An author of 9 textbooks, with a 10th in production on youth gangs, Dr. Hansen has turned her recreational time to ekphrasis poetry, where artworks inspire verse. She has also more recently returned to playing piano after a 20-year absence. Her paintings, in acrylics and oils, depict landscapes she is most familiar with, New England and New Mexico. She will happily work on miniature landscapes, as well as on massive canvases, wherever the inspiration might take her.

Laurie Lazauski

A Fiber Artist and reuser of found fabric and other interesting items for use in my design work.

Linda Mizell

In high school, Linda was drawn to art classes. She graduated from Ball State University with a degree in Secondary Education and a major in Home Economics. She also has experience in areas of bookkeeping and sales. Linda entered seminary in her 40s and served 20 years in the ministry, serving small to medium churches in the New Mexico and West Texas District. Linda studied Photo and media in California. She has a long history with a wide variety of dance styles and disciplines. She brings to the Route 66 Arts Alliance board her many years of working with children and youth in educational settings. Linda has been one of the directors of the Sumer Arts Camp program since 2016.

Martin Matlack

Martin Matlack is a New Mexico native with a life-long passion for photography and railroads. Trained as a photojournalist, he delights in capturing people in their normal everyday element – today’s term is “Street Photography”.

“I have had a camera in my hands for over 50 years; I still shoot with film, and in medium-format (6×6 and 6×7 cm).”

He has been the recipient of three world-level awards.

Martin’s images have been used by Amtrak, New Mexico Rail Runner Express, and various other publications. His work can be seen in Bernalillo, NM, at Home at the Range Gallery and the Freight House Tap Room. He shows in Santa Fe, NM, with the Santa Fe Artist’s Market and serves on the board of the Route 66 Arts Alliance.

David Waldrep

David Waldrep, Membership Coordinator, Route 66 Arts Alliance. Retired Technology Educator, Albuquerque Public Schools. Retired United States Air Force.

Masters Degree Healthcare Administration, Chapman University. B.S. Degree Vocational Education with Emphasis in Educational Design and Curriculum Development, Southern Illinois University. Hobbies include Woodworking, specifically Lathe turning, Camping, Fishing and Hiking.

David is currently creating turned wood vessels and sculpture from local woods.