The Colquitt County Arts Center has announced its new executive director: Connie Fritz, who has held a number of positions with the center over the last 24 years. Fritz recently posed with the Arts Center Board of Directors as part of the announcement. Front row from left are Billy Fallin, Stella Wingate, Connie Fritz and Karen Sasine; second row, Ken Collier, Harvie Ann Cox, Austin Garcia and Kathy Nelson; third row, Lesa Moser, Michael Ryce, Leah Garcia and Nancy McGilvray; and back row, Mary Norman, Lovedy Griner, Lin Sheffield, Mary Ann Robinson and Erin Wear.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A familiar figure at the Colquitt County Arts Center will now be seen in the director’s office.

Connie Fritz, who among other contributions founded the center’s children’s theater program, will replace Executive Director Jeff Ophime, who resigned in January. Her first day will be May 16.

Fritz is a Moultrie native and, together with her husband Steve, owns Frameworks 123 and Double Play Trophies in downtown Moultrie. They have four children and four grandchildren.

Fritz has served as the director of Christian education at The First Presbyterian Church of Moultrie and Flint River Presbytery resident camp director and youth council coordinator for the last 17 years.

“Mrs. Fritz comes to us with an extensive background in theater and community development having served as the director of United Way of Colquitt County, The Regional Grassroots grant facilitator, Georgia Theater Conference Board president, Red Cross Board secretary, The Colquitt County Arts Center Board program chair, and past program director of the Colquitt County Arts Center,” said a press release from the Arts Center.

Fritz is the founder of the children’s theater program at the Arts Center and has spent countless volunteer hours over the last 24 years at the Arts Center producing and directing children and youth theater productions. She has also taught a variety of craft classes to children and adults often donating class fees to the Arts Center.

 Fritz was selected by a committee and approved by the current Colquitt County Board of Directors to lead the Arts Center for continued growth, the Arts Center press release said. She will work to secure long-term financial stability to match the growth of the organization, and to further develop the Arts Center’s relationship with the community and community organizations.

 “I am humbled and honored to have been selected to continue to provide the quality of leadership the community has come to know from the Colquitt County Arts Center,” Fritz said