Staff
EMILY KIEWEL
Director
Emily has been involved with the Charles City Arts Center since 2008 and the Director starting in 2019. She enjoys the myriad of roles required for the daily operations at the Arts Center, especially supporting artists and welcoming visitors with inquisitive eyes and minds.
JULIE RAINBOW CAREY
Assistant
A recent transplant to Iowa, Julie has Texas origins ranging from her hometown of San Antonio to the desert of far west Texas.
Julie studied Sculpture at Texas State University with a focus on studio arts specifically in foundry work, welding, and installation and has since worked with world renowned artists and institutions in art management, visitor experience, and exhibition curation and art handling.
Family brings her to Iowa and she is looking forward to building community with her new neighbors.
SHAUNE FIELDS
Assistant
Charles City Arts Council Board of Directors
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DR. ROBERT MULCAHY
President
Robert has been involved with the Arts Center since 2022. He is an English/Composition instructor at North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC). Prior to that, Robert taught various courses in literature, film, culture, media, and the Russian language at The Ohio State University and the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Before the Covid pandemic, Robert was the Moscow Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Russian summer study abroad program—until the pandemic and recent political events put that program on hold. Robert is passionate about bringing the arts to a broader community.
NANCY CLARKE
Vice President
Nancy is a graduate of Charles City High School. She attended the Haystack School of Crafts in Maine, was involved with VISTA living in Arizona, and traveled extensively. She was an Administrative Assistant for the Dept. of Human Services in San Diego CA until retirement in 1990. Since moving to Charles City she has been very involved in the Main Street Design Committee. She received a Women of the Year award while volunteering on that Committee. She has been a volunteer on the Charles City Arts Council for seven years and continues to do so.
DR. KATHRYN CAMPBELL
Secretary
Kathryn Campbell loves learning and enjoys the arts. After earning an A.B. and M.A. in English from the University of Kansas, three years of study in early Celtic languages at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she was a tenured Professor of English at the University of Iowa for ten years. Since then she studied to become an Episcopal priest and has served tiny churches in Northern Iowa for about forty years, taking time off to get a D.Min. from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. She has been active in teaching for the Diocese of Iowa and the Hazelnut Connection in Charles City as well as bands in North Iowa and the Charles City Singers. She's excited by the opportunity to serve the community as a member of the Arts Council.
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ASHLEY KOEBRICK-SCHMIDT
Board Member
Ashley lives in Charles City with her family. She is a practicing artist and a Quality Specialist at Zoetis. She is also Committee Chairperson for the Charles City Art-a-Fest, and enjoys being part of the local arts community. Ashley has served as a board member of the Arts Council from 2019-2022, and again from May 2025 - present.
LANCE SCHREIER
Board Member
CHARLES CITY ARTS CENTER