PERSONAL DATA:
Born May 4, 1943 in Schenactady, New York
Divorced. Three children - Chris 26, Fred 25, Amanda 25

EDUCATION:
Radcliffe College, B.A. Cum Laude, Art History, 1965; M.A., Art History, University of Pennsylvania, 1968; Post-graduate studies, Dr. Christopher Grey, Johns Hopkins University, 1968-1969.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
1969-1972 - Curator of Education, Wadsworth Atheneum. Responsible for developing nationally recognized docent program, the public school programs, all art history lectures, workshops, and symposiums, signage and informational materials.

1972-1978 - Mother and housewife. Lived in Japan (husband was president of wholly-owned subsidiary)

1980-1984 - President Old Lyme Impressionists. One of the first galleries to specialize in American Impressionist painting.

1984-1990 - President and owner, Connecticut Gallery. Gallery noted for inventory of the finest American Impressionist paintings and as a teaching and publishing institution.

1983-1985 - Assistant Professor, Art History, Hartford College for Women. Hired to teach and inspire only the brightest students in the school in a non-traditional art history course.

1986-1987 - CEO of Art at 100 Pearl, one of the first amenity galleries in a major office building complex planned to promote the building and the city to potential leasors. Facility, promotional materials and exhibitions considered ground breaking by local, state, and national press.

1992 to present - Managing member, Westward Enterprises L.L.C. Own and operate a major equestrian and event center in Colorado among other business ventures. Vice President, Management I; Vice-President and Director, Management II, family investment companies.

COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Trustee, Wadsworth Atheneum, six years; Beech Committee, William Benton Museum (acquisitions), ten years; Trustee, Hartford Art School, ten years; (Chairman-Finance Committee, Vice-President, two years, President, three years, President Emerita and Honorary Life Trustee, recipient of gold medal for Distinguished service). Regent University of Hartford, six years, (Finance Committee, Investment Committee, Vice-Chairman of Board, nominated for Trustee of the Year award given by National Association of Governing Boards); Advisory Committee, Florence Griswold Museum; Board of Overseers, Weir Farm, three years (advisory for ten years). Currently; Trustee, Denver Art Museum, Trustee, Free Congress Foundation, Director, Radio America, President, Vernon K. Krieble Foundation (well-known Public Policy Foundation, Director, Colorado Horse Development Board, Director, Colorado Horsemen’s Council.

OTHER POSITIONS:
Guest Lecturer, Wadsworth Atheneum, Lyman Allen Museum, William Benton Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Florence Griswold Museum, others; Guest Curator, William Benton Museum (J. Alden Weir, Connecticut Art in three major exhibitions), New Britain Museum, (the Burr Sisters), Florence Griswold Museum (Everett Warner, 1992). Instigated the establishment of a database at the University of Connecticut in preparation for a definitive book on the history of Connecticut art. Named Connecticut Humanities Laureate 1995 by St. Joseph’s College in Hartford, CT. Molly Brown award recipient, Parker Chamber of Commerce, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS:
Charles Ethan Porter, 1986 (original research and exhibition on Nineteenth Century unknown black Hartford artist, now recognized as one of five most significant American black artists of the Nineteenth Century. Received award from New England Association of Historical Societies as best historical research in 1986); The Burr Sisters, 1990 (previously unknown Nineteenth Century women painters from Monroe, Connecticut, whose personal story reveals much about women artists in the late Nineteenth Century). Everett Longley Warner: A World Observed, 1992 (Prominent member of Old Lyme art colony, noted New York Impressionist and Regional School artist of the 1930s), Art catalogues on Frederick Sexton, Leonard Ochtman, Saxton Burr, Henry Denslow, Cornelia Vetter, Others. All publications in specialty area of little known Connecticut artists of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.

CAREER INTERESTS:
Entrepreneurial business opportunities, leadership in the revitalization of Hartford, participation in the evolution of the Denver, Colorado through business, sports, and the arts into a nationally recognized hub city, participation in the support of freedom and entrepreneurship nationally and internationally.

EQUESTRIAN CAREER

Owner and CEO of High Prairie Farms Equestrian Center ion Parker, Colorado since 1992. Converted and expanded a bankrupt equestrian country club used as a lead-in for a housing development into one of the premier equestrian centers in the United States.

Introduced Colorado to the idea of a Colorado Horse Park. Working for five years to accomplish that goal at High Prairie. Raised support from the Denver business community and among politicians at both the state and local level. The project is complex, including the creation of a 501c3, density transfers, community open space designation, work with homeowner’ groups, town councils, Denver, South Denver and local Chambers of Commerce. Fund-raising mechanism set in place. Organized plans drawn by Robert Joliceur. Approvals for zoning change, property transfer and funding in process.

Board of Directors of the Colorado Horsemen’s Council, a much admired branch of the American Horse Council. Chairman of the committee to expand the organization to include member services such as networking opportunities. Expansion plans passed by the board and in the process of implementation. These changes are expected to make CoHoCo more appealing to a much broader base of horse people and allow it to become a unifying umbrella organization with 5,000 members instead of the 500 currently enlisted. The power of the numbers should be a major factor in promoting and supporting the horse industry in the state.

Member 1st Board of Directors of the Colorado Horse Development Authority, 1996-1999, a subsection of the State Agricultural Department. Authorized by the legislature in 1996. CHDA is charged with the unification, education, and development of the horse industry in the state, the Chairman of the Marketing Committee. Instigated the new in-depth horse survey of Colorado being sent to 12,000 households and to be completed in 1999.

Other involvements include: the Marketing Committee, AHSA; Developing Rider Committee, U.S.E.T.; oversight of NAYRC and Prix de State organizers, Zone VIII; Zone VII Board Member. Have bred tri-bred ponies, ridden, driven, and boarded horses. Daughter, Amanda Fusscas, rides Grand Prix.