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Bellamy Road (David Turner Warner Foundation, Inc.) supports the work of creative artists in the visual arts, literature, film, music and other performing arts. It offers emerging and established artists opportunities to create and display diverse artistic, cultural and spiritual expressions. In addition to promoting ambitious new works that expand artists’ practices and foster career growth, Bellamy Road also offers people rare encounters with contemporary art beyond racial, economic, and religious factors, thereby enriching the everyday experience of our citizens.

DAVID T. WARNER: President, Chairman
David Turner Warner, the Foundation’s sole director and benefactor, is an author, documentary filmmaker, philanthropist, and director/shareholder of a family owned timber and land company based in Alabama.

Author of three non-fiction books, David is also writer/producer of three documentary videos on Bimini, Florida and New Mexico. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in English Literature and lives near Hawthorne, Florida.

KEITH BOLLUM: Executive Director, Vice-president
Keith C. Bollum, the Vice-President and Executive Director, has a B.A. in History and is a former teacher who also has business experience in the retail new and used book industry, is an art dealer, and has served as a manager of a bed and breakfast lodge. He also has substantial experience with non-profits on which he has served as board member and officer of the Volusia County (Florida) Library Board; West Volusia Historical Society; and Mainstreet DeLand.

He is a full time employee of the Foundation. His duties include managing the Foundation, planning, program development, advertising, public relations, and supervising employees and volunteers. He is also in charge of collection development (books, film, art).

LINDA POLLINI: Assistant Director, Graphic Artist
Linda Pollini, the Foundation’s Secretary, has two degrees from Santa Fe Community College in Fine Art and Graphic Design. She is a life-long artist who has exhibited in Los Angeles, Hawaii, University of Florida (Center for Women‘s Studies) Gainesville, Spring Arts Festival and Art in Public Places. She has won awards for photography, painting and printmaking. Linda was a founding member of the Tench Building Printmakers Studio and studied at the Institute for Research in Art at Graphicstudio, U. of So. Florida, Tampa.

She is the former chairman of a regional chapter of the Sierra Club and has been active in other non-profit environmental and arts organizations (Putnam County Environmental Council, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, Keep Alachua County Beautiful, Artisans Guild). As part-time employee, Linda will create graphics for the Foundation, act as secretary of the Foundation, and assist in general management.

ALAN SAPERSTEIN: Film and Video Consultant
Video maker, Alan Saperstein, has worked in Florida for the past thirty years as a director, producer, cameraman, writer and editor. He has produced more than twenty documentaries and travel videos for public television and the private sector. Of the 200 video profiles of artists he has created are works on writers Harry Crews, Robert Stone, and Allen Ginsberg; filmmakers Don Pennebaker and Robert Frank; musicians Bo Diddley and B.B. King.

His work has appeared on Florida Public Television, WGBH-Boston, MTV, and other national television outlets. He has received awards from The Southeastern Educational Communications Association, The National Educational Television Association, and has been a presenter at the Native American Film Festival in New York City.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Alan attended high school in Gainesville and the University of Florida before turning his life-long interest in filmmaking into a career at Gainesville’s Public Television station. He has five grown children and lives in Earleton, Florida.