Angela R. Godin, Executive Director
Angela is the Executive Director of the Community Arts Center of Cambria County, where she develops and navigates the Arts Center’s programming, special events, fundraising campaigns, marketing, and grant writing initiatives. Angela holds a Master of Science in Arts Administration and Museum Leadership from Drexel University and is a Cum Laude graduate from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts. She worked as an independent contractor in art related fields for over eleven years. This experience included directing over thirty plays and musicals, performing in many productions, as well as vast experience in choreography, dance instruction, stage-managing, lighting design, sound design and production management/administration. Her repertoire comprises of directing theatre festivals, studio theatre projects, acting camps, training seminars and teaching theatre courses to all ages. Angela has over twenty years of dance training and/or instructing. She’s thrilled to be bringing her directing skills to the Arts Center by developing and expanding the Log Art Theatre division, and now the Log Art Dance division. Angela is a Rotarian and sits as Board Chair for the Board of Trustees of Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center, and Conemaugh Miners Medical Center. In 2018, she was accepted into the National Arts Marketing Project Cohort 2, a two-year program comprised of trainings and seminars in arts marketing through Americans for the Arts and was a DIAL Mentor for the 2022 Diversity In Arts Leadership (DIAL) Internship program. Angela was the Arts & Letters honoree for the 2019 Tribute to Women and selected for the PA Business Central's Top 100 People of 2020.
Kate Rafas, Design & Development Director
Kate is a lifelong resident of Johnstown and a graduate of Greater Johnstown Senior High School. In 2014, she graduated from the Pittsburgh Technical Institute (now Pittsburgh Technical College) with an Associate of Science Degree in Graphic Design. Art has always been a passion of hers: in high school, it was fine arts (pencils, pen and ink, and painting, in particular), but since college, it has shifted to digital art and graphics. Kate is also a freelance photographer: her portfolio includes portrait sessions, as well as photos of animals of all kinds (particularly horses) and local Josh Gallagher concerts. She has spent many years volunteering in the local community with organizations like the Bottleworks, Cambria County Historical Society, Cambria County 4-H, and Best of Friends Therapeutic Horseback Riding. When not at CAC, Kate can be found out riding with her horse, Lucky.
Sue Brick, Exhibition & Community Engagement Developer
Sue Ann Brick is a 2004 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Sue has her BA in Theatre Arts. Since graduation in 2004, Sue has been honing her theatre skills not only on stage, but off stage as well, teaching theatre to children of various ages, those young and those young at heart. Sue is no stranger to CAC, as she has been teaching the Log Art Theatre Academy Musical Theatre Camp here for many years. Before coming to CAC, Sue taught in Ligonier for the Valley Players Childrens players and was mentored by a Broadway legend in Cumberland Maryland. Sue even performed a one- woman show and could have auditioned for Broadway, she but turned it down to raise her growing family. Sue is a proud wife and mother of 2 children and is excited to be working at the Community Arts Center in her field of study. "I feel I am finally where I am meant to be and where I can share my love of all things ART with the surrounding communities."
Billie Ann Murphy, Finance Manager
Billie Ann Murphy, a graduate of UPJ with a B.S. in Elementary Education, has been the Bookkeeper for the Community Arts Center on and off for many years, originally starting at the Arts Center in 1991. Billie transitioned out of the Arts Center in 2001 to work at First Presbyterian Church. She returned to work part-time at the Arts Center in 2006; in 2017, Billie retired from the church. She is the mother of two and grandmother of five. Billie enjoys the challenges of keeping within the budget and balancing the books at the Arts Center.