The Langley Arts Commission added a big name to its ranks at the city council meeting Tuesday night.

Diane Divelbess, a retired art professor and the former Island County Fair Association board president, was confirmed to join the city’s arts group. Her addition makes the commission an eight-member advisory board, which is responsible for identifying and selecting publicly-funded art in Langley.

She replaces Amanda Moore, who runs Kalakala Co. Mercantile on Second Street and resigned from the commission to focus on the business.

In its first year, the commission picked a pair of sculptures for the Second Street plaza and is working to find other locations for sculptures, as well as other venues for city-financed art.

“We look forward to working together and doing some great things,” said Frank Rose, the commission’s chairman.

Divelbess was a professor of art at Cal Poly Pomona. Now she is an artist and print maker.

“This will be an opportunity, I hope, not to do any damage,” Divelbess joked during the council’s meeting Feb. 17.