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The Shell Lake Arts Center Board of Directors is made up of ten members from the surrounding area. The Directors serve as an advisory and supervisory entity for the overall operations of the Center.
 William Taubman, has been on the SHELL LAKE ARTS CENTER Board of Directors since 1977 and is the current President and Facility Committee Chair. Mr. Taubman taught in the University of Wisconsin system for thirty years before retiring in 1993. While in the university system, Bill served as an extension specialist teaching in the broad area of resource management and community development. As Shell Lake native, Bill returned to live here and commute to his work in 1976. Bill is very active in other volunteer activities throughout the state, and in his retirement operates a cash grain farm and self-storage business.
 Jeanne Chamberlain, Board member since 1997, is the current Vice President and on the finance and facility committees. Raised in Spooner, Wisconsin, Jeanne is now a retired Administrator of the Spooner Clinic and Medical Record Supervisor of Spooner Hospital. Jeanne also is past president of the Spooner Intermezzo Music Club and former committee chair of the Spooner Chamber of Commerce Heritage Festival. Throughout high school and college, she participated in band as a flute player.
Gloria Carlson is the current Program Committee Chair and SHELL LAKE ARTS CENTER Secretary. In 2002, Gloria and her husband, Steve, received the Wisconsin Music Educators Association (WMEA) Community Service Award for their dedication to the arts in Northwestern Wisconsin. As a retired medical technologist, Gloria helped establish the Hospice Program in the Spooner area and was the Volunteer Coordinator there for six years. Gloria and Steve have three children, two of whom earn their living in the arts. She also served on the Shell Lake School Board for twelve years.
Jeffrey Southern has been a member of the Shell Lake Arts Center Board of Directors since 2000 and currently serves as Chair of the Centers Personnel Committee. Jeff retired from the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in 2000 after many years in their Human Resources Office. He now works part-time for the Wisconsin Procurement Institute. Jeff also serves as the President of the Barron County Red Cross. He is married to Linda Thompson and lives in South Haugen.
Katherine Stewart is an attorney practicing primarily in the areas of trusts and estates, elder law, real estate and child welfare law. She attended UW-Stout and received her bachelors degree in journalism magna cum laude from the University of Georgia. She received her law degree from the University of Minnesota cum laude. Katherine is past president of the UW-Barron County Campus Foundation Board and Friends of Hunt Hill Audubon Sanctuary. She is on the boards of the Indianhead Arts and Education Center and Northwest Connections Resource and Referral, in addition to serving on the Office of Lawyer Regulation district committee.
Mary Dosch, current Public Relation Committee Chair, has been a member of the SHELL LAKE ARTS CENTER Board of Directors since 2001. A native of Luck, WI, Mary graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a degree in art education and taught in Minnesota and Wisconsin for three years. Mary and her husband have owned and operated Brickyard Pottery & Glass in Shell Lake for the past twenty-five years. She is active in the Shell Lake PTA and a volunteer in the Shell Lake School District.
Joe Fitzgerald has been on the Shell Lake Arts Center Board of Directors since Summer 2004. Receiving bachelors degrees in music and speech and a masters degree in education, Joe retired in 1995 after thirty-four years as a music teacher. He is active in church and community activities, and is a master adjudicator for the Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA) and is on the boards of the Spooner Education Foundation and the Rolling Hills Snowmobile Club. Joe and his wife, Joan, have three children and nine grandchildren are enjoying their retirement in Spooner.
Bob Waggoner received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota. From there, he went on to teach physics, music, environmental science and computer programming in several different public and private schools for sixteen years. After his teaching career, Bob owned a computer business in Spooner, Wis. for seventeen years. Currently, he manufactures and sells music stands he designed. Bob also has played in assorted brass ensembles and bands since college.
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