Wimberley nonprofit projectART has selected Kristy Peloquin to lead the organization as their inaugural Executive Director. Peloquin is set to begin her tenure on July 14. The organization has been operating solely with volunteer board members and occasional part-time staff and will now be able to implement their three-year strategic plan under the guidance of a full-time Executive Director.
Peloquin has nearly a decade of nonprofit experience and community service. She co-created a therapeutic creative writing program for a nonprofit serving those suffering through grief and loss. She went on to join Pop-Up Birthday, a nonprofit serving children in foster care, and became the organization’s first executive director. She also engaged her love for storytelling and all things Texan by serving as development manager for a statewide historic preservation organization. In this role, she directed an impactbeen ful internship program that helped students from underrepresented cultural backgrounds access career-enhancing internships. projectART hopes that Peloquin’s experience will be pivotal in expanding the organization’s initiatives and uniting the community through art. projectART is dedicated to supporting art education and providing creative opportunities for area youth. Since its inception in 2019, projectART has donated over $26,000 in art supplies and equipment to Wimberley schools under their initiative called projectARTROOM.
In 2023, projectART opened ARTSPACE, a contemporary art gallery and mixed-use education space, in the historic Lowry House in Wimberley.
With the gallery and new leadership, initiatives such as projectMENTOR, which pairs middle-and highschool students with local artists, and projectGALLERY, which brings 4th-grade classes into ARTSPACE to learn about contemporary art and the inner workings of an art gallery, can flourish.
