Board and Committees
2023 Executive Board
Sheri Jacobs
President - Elect
Sheri graduated from The George Washington University in 1992. She is presently working with severely and persistently mentally ill adults and adolescents for the past 29 years in a state hospital. Sheri began the art therapy program at Northwest Hospital Center, she has worked at Sheppard Pratt Ellicott City, Springfield Hospital Center. Sheri has Equine Assisted Psychotherapy training, training in both play therapy and sandtray therapy as well as psychodrama training. Sheri feels her best accomplishment was completing Baltimore Marathon and becoming licensed as a Maryland Art Therapist. Sheri loves to play with her kittens, Gracie and Casey, and make her house a home.
Tracy Weitkamp
Secretary
Tracy earned her Masters of Art Therapy from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute, IN. She is currently a school-based art therapist in the Prince George's County Public School System working with middle school students for one-on-one therapy and in groups. Tracy hopes to normalize conversations around mental health in the school environment and provide a safe space for students to express themselves and their needs.
Peggy Kolodny, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT
Delegate to the American Art Therapy Association Assembly of Chapters
Historian
Peggy Kolodny is a Board Certified and Licensed Art Therapist and a founder of The Art Therapy Collective of Owings Mills. She is a trauma-focused art therapist with Level 2 certificates in IFS and EMDR. An adjunct faculty member of the University of Maryland School of Social Work, she is past faculty of Goucher College and MICA. Peggy is also on the professional training faculties of The Ferentz Institute, Chesapeake Beach Play Therapy Seminars and Expressive Therapies Summits, teaching nationally. A past president of MATA, she has served on many of its committees and has been a member of MATA since she was an undergraduate student in 1975. She has no plans to retire!
Charlotte Boston, MA, ATR-BC, LCPAT
Alternate Delegate to the American Art Therapy Association Assembly of Chapters
Charlotte is an experienced clinician, educator, administrator and consultant in art therapy with psychiatric inpatients. Her experiences include a broad range of populations including military psychiatric inpatients at WRAMC. She has served on various committees of the American Art Therapy Association, and the AATA Board of Directors. She is currently President-Elect of the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She has presented and published locally and nationally.
Kimberly Kelly, LCPC, LCPAT
Treasurer
Kimberly is an art therapist working in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She is a graduate of the George Washington University Masters in Art Therapy program. Kimberly specializes in working with adolescents who have a variety of mental health concerns.
2023 Committee Chairs
Rick Conway
Membership Committee Chair
Rick Conway is a recent graduate of The George Washington University art therapy program. This is Rick’s second master’s degree after years of working in the theatrical arts. Rick would like to support current MATA members by helping to increase the MATA community. Rick hopes to encourage recent grads to become aware of all the art therapists already in Maryland and how interacting with them can be not only a mechanism of support, but a chance to network with active, experienced professionals.
Alia Nasier
Public Information Chair
Alia Nasier moved to the DMV from Indonesia and graduated from the Masters in Art Therapy program at The George Washington University. Drawing on her two decades of experience in graphic design, Alia hopes to use her skills to create engaging and informative content to promote the Maryland Art therapy Association and inspire others to explore the world of art therapy.