Wendy Benner

Board Secretary

• Instrument: violin (modern and baroque)

• Admires the art of craftsmanship; plays a violin handmade by her late grandfather in the 1930s

• Passionate about learning from other artists of all disciplines and connecting with art lovers in the community via Rendezvous Arts

• Career highlight: performing in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canada with the assistant concertmaster who had inspired Wendy's mother to start her violin lessons 25 years prior

• Obsessive nurturer with hundreds of houseplants and four young children at home