Our Board

Robbie Breaux has lived in and loved Grand Junction since 1996. She had been a pharmacist for 18 years prior to her move, and she was office manager for the Pediatric Specialty Clinic at St. Mary’s Hospital for 17 years. She now teaches ceramics at The Art Center. Robbie has served on several boards and committees, including The Art Center, the Art Center Endowment Foundation, The Avalon Theatre Foundation, MusicSpark, Art On the Corner, Downtown Art Festival Committee, and the Grand Valley Creative Alliance Task Force. She was appointed by Governor Hickenlooper to the Colorado Creative Industries Council in 2017. She serves on the Grand Junction Creative District Leadership Council. She is active in her church, playing the piano and organ, and singing in the choir. Robbie and her husband, Chuck, support all things art!

Kelly Anderson is the Executive Director for the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra in Grand Junction, Colorado. He has helped transform the orchestra to a highly successful organization artistically and financially. 

As a baritone soloist, he had a successful singing career as soloist with many opera companies and symphony orchestras including the BBC Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Houston Symphony, Berlin Symphony, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Festival Orchestra, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Florentine Opera, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Opera Leipzig, and many others. In 1997, I received a Grammy Award for soloist in Wagner’s Die Meistersänger with the Chicago Symphony under Sir Georg Solti. 

Bennett Boeschenstein is a semi-retired urban planner, having worked as a professional planner over the past nearly 40 years for the City of Fruita, the City of Grand Junction, Mesa County, the City of Norwalk, Connecticut and Hudson County, New Jersey. He is currently Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Grand Junction. Bennett holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from the University of Cincinnati. He served in the US Peace Corps for three years in Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa, and is the past president of the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association and of the Fruita Rotary Club. He is a founding member of the Riverfront Commission, and is a volunteer programmer at community radio station, KAFM.

Lee Borden has 20+ years experience a s on-air talent in medium and major market commercial radio, and 30+ years experience as an actor, voice over artist, copy writer, and marketing consultant. He is currently the executive director of The Art Center of Western Colorado.

Voice clients have included: Caesar's Palace - Las Vegas, Banquet Foods, Village Inn, Family Restaurants INC. Rocky Mountain PBS, The Cabaret Dinner Theater, The Metro Playhouse and many others.

He also performed voice-over work on the Emmy Award winning documentary, "The Colorado National Monument: Celebrating 100 Years of John Otto's Dream."