Appointed Associate Executive Director January 1, 2024, Lisa Fisher joined the ShenArts team as Program Manager in 2022. She is a visual artist whose work has been published, collected internationally, and exhibited across the U.S. In 2022, she completed a summer residency at the Peter Bullough Foundation in Winchester and is also being represented online by five3gallery in Las Lagunas, CA. Lisa brings with her a vigor for the artist and all those that appreciate the arts. She is passionate about finding ways to develop more artistic experiences for Shenandoah Valley artists and the community. Lisa graduated with a BS in Behavioral Science at Greensboro College in 1987. She grew up in Bethesda, MD, but moved to the area in 2017 with her husband, daughter, 3 cats and a dog.

Appointed Program Director January 1, 2024, Rachel Smith became the first ever ShenArts Education Manager in 2022. With more than 16 years of experience teaching children, she expertly executes the development of art programming for children and teens. Rachel is an active artist who has exhibited at over 70 shows in 14 states, and at local venues including the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Barns of Rose Hill, and Burwell-Morgan Mill. In 2021, she was the first artist-in-residence for the Peter Bullough Foundation here in Winchester. She discovered her passion for teaching art to children while artist-in-residence at the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum, where she began teaching art workshops in 2018. In 2022, Rachel was awarded the Innovate + Create Grant by Teaching Artists of the Mid-Atlantic. Rachel received a BFA in Painting and Drawing at Brigham Young University in 2007. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but she has called Virginia home since 2010. She lives in the Winchester area with her husband, four daughters, and two dogs.