MCA Board of Directors
Melissa Haberman, Director
Melissa is one of the founding board members of The Montgomery Center for The Arts. She has been in art education for over 30 years, and now is semi retired but still teaching two days a week at Montgomery Elementary School. She moved to Vermont from Cleveland Ohio in the '80s with her new family and her passion for restoring old homes and developing her extraordinary gardens.
Diem-Chi Nguyen, Treasurer
Chi grew up in Illinois and moved to Montgomery in 2019. She currently works as an architectural Project Manager for a firm in Burlington, and has significant knowledge and experience that is relevant to historic architecture, accessibility, and fundraising.
Talia Roberts, Secretary
Talia moved to Vermont in 2023 from Montana. A lifelong love for the arts led her to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art. Talia is an artist who creates oil paintings and her own pigments using local rocks she collects. She also enjoys gardening, skiing, hiking, fishing and baking bread.
Zachary Enos, Web/Graphic Designer
Zachary is a multimedia artist from Taunton, Massachusetts who moved to Holland, Vermont in 2023. He is passionate about art in all forms and loves meeting new people, believing everyone has a unique story to tell. In his spare time, Zachary enjoys crocheting, painting, hiking, and playing video games.
Roberta Wendel
Roberta lives in Montgomery Center with her husband Kurt and two Siberian Huskies, and joined the MCA board in part to foster the fiber arts community. She combines graphic design with punch needle rug hooking to create and make rugs, mats, and functional fiber arts. She excelled at sewing, weaving and ceramics in high school, and these interests led her to art school and eventually a career in graphic design. In the last decade Roberta has made fiber arts a priority and rekindled her love for punch needle. In 2025, she was certified as an Oxford Punch Needle Rug Hooking Instructor.
Anne Jones
After enjoying two years of participating in classes, shows, and events at the MCA, Anne joined the board with a desire to facilitate creative opportunities for others within the Montgomery community and beyond. She has spent her life making and experiencing art in a variety of forms. She is a Craft Yarn Council Certified Crochet instructor and has taught Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design at various community colleges and at the University of North Texas. Anne currently paints, makes jewelry, and plays with a wide variety of materials in her home studio with a view of Enosburg Mountain across the way. When she moved to Montgomery from Texas in 2024, Anne was delighted to find an active and welcoming arts community. She looks forward to serving the community by supporting programs at the Montgomery Center for the Arts, teaching, and taking lots of classes.