About Us 
Executive Director & Board
The Olive Branch Arts Council consist of 11 Board Members and an Executive Director. The Long Range Plan of the organization continues to be consistent with the mission and goals. The goals are to be a center for information and resources for artists, art groups, and the public
Executive Director
My family moved to Olive Branch in 1969 when I was in the 10th grade. After graduating from Olive Branch High School in 1972, I attended Northwest Community College for two years. I received a bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design in 1975 from MSU. I worked as an interior designer for eight years at an English Antique shop. I have been working for a custom upholstery shop since 1983 designing furniture until May 2010, when I started my own upholstery business "Dena's Personal Touch" Your Custom Upholstery Shop.
Rita Schelly has been a resident of Olive Branch for 21 years. She is Vice President of BancorpSouth Bank in Olive Branch. She is married to John Schelly, employed by City of Olive Branch, and has a son, Nicholas Lancaster, by a previous marriage.
As a multi-media artist, I have worked with fabric/textiles, glass mosaics, fine gold and silver, and ivory scrimshaw. Scrimshaw is the etching and blackening of artwork on animal bone, horn, tusk, etc.
Third generation and life long resident of Olive Branch. Graduate of Olive Branch High School and Northwest Mississippi Junior College. Daughter of Wayne and Fran Wallace. Mother of 3 children and Mimi of 4 grandchildren.
Kim Terrell is Executive Director of DeSoto County Tourism. She has been on the OBAC for four years. Kim has lived in Olive Branch for 14 years. She is actively involved in her church, First Baptist Olive Branch, as well as the Olive Twig Humanitarian Group and the Make A Wish Foundation of the Mid South.
Phil and his family moved to Olive Branach in July 1997, from Tupelo, Ms. Phil is employed by the Kroger Company. Phil has worked for Kroger since 1978 (31 years). Phil joined the OBAC in 2007, and was Vice President in 2008, before becoming President of the Olive Branch Arts Council in 2009. He is married to Susan F. Evans for 24 years, and he has two children, Cliff, 21, a Senior at Ole Miss, and Meredith, 17, a Senior at Lewisburg high School.
Peggy Henderson grew up in Wilm, Delaware and attended the University of Delaware. She flew as a flight attendant for an international charter airline, then moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked as a travel agent and met her husband, David. They lived and worked in Lynchburg, Va. and Tulsa, Oklahoma before moving back to the D.C. area with their daughter, Marcail.
Owner of El Amigo's Restaurant in Olive Branch, Ms.