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• Shelley Brittingham

Shelley Brittingham is an Assistant Director with the City of Bellevue Parks & Community Services Department and a former Recreation Coordinator for the King County Parks & Recreation Division. She has a dance background and extensive experience conducting arts programs for all ages through parks & recreation, afterschool programs and the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County. She has presented at national and local conferences on school age/youth care issues. Shelley is a Burien resident and also serves on the Burien Arts Commission.

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• Lawrence Ellis

Lawrence Ellis is the Assistant Director for the City of SeaTac Parks & Recreation Department and a long time collaborator of 4Culture. As the lead staff for the former SeaTac Arts Commission and recreation staff for the Parks and Recreation Department, Lawrence has facilitated numerous arts in the parks programs and funding awards from 4Culture over the last 20 years. Lawrence has also served on 4Culture panels for the Cultural Facilities and Special Projects Programs of 4Culture. Lawrence is a an active community member of the SeaTac Community as well as serving with the Boy and Girls Club of Ballard.

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• Josh LaBelle

Josh LaBelle is the Executive Director of the Seattle Theatre Group which operates the Paramount and Moore Theatres in Seattle. He spent four years with the William Morris Agency in Los Angeles, and eventually worked as an assistant booking concerts in the Music Division. He spent several years as a professional musician, performing and recording, primarily with T-Bone Burnett & Sam Philllips. Josh is also on the boards of the Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

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• Dan Mayer

Dan Mayer is the Executive Director for the Kirkland Performance Center where he has served as Associate Director for the past two years. Dan has an extensive history of non-profit arts experience in King County, as a free-lance planning consultant providing crisis and transition management for a number of arts organizations including On the Boards, Empty Space, Spectrum Dance Theatre, Photographic Center Northwest, The Jewish Film Festival, and nationally with the National Performance Network, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York and Chicago, and Arts International.

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• Eduardo Mendonca

Eduardo Mendonca is a resident of Renton and native of Brazil. He is a professional composer/musician and Director of Show Brazil Productions, a local Brazilian music and dance group well known throughout King County at numerous fairs and festivals. Eduardo is also the Co-Founder and Director for BrasilFest, an annual ethnic festival held at Seattle Center. He is a voting member of The Recording Academy (Grammy and Latin Grammy). Eduardo's street performance has been a part of 4Culture's Site Specific Program.

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• Ken Noreen
• Board Representative

Kenneth Noreen has served as the Band Director of Shoreline Community College Band Director since 1994. Prior to Shoreline Community College, Noreen served as Director of Bands for the Shoreline School District and was a Music Specialist for the Shoreline School District. Business activities include: Music Director for the Seattle Supersonics; Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker Bain; Co-owner of Broad-View Travel and ACFEA Tour Consultants; President of NORHAWK, Inc. and Owner of Triad Properties. Noreen's volunteer activities include: Founding Member of Shoreline Arts Council; Charter Member of Shoreline Breakfast Rotary; Member of Shoreline Public School Foundation; past President of Washington Music Educators' Association; Member of WMEA state board; and past President of University of Washington Husky Band Foundation. Noreen holds a BA in Music and a Masters in Secondary Education from the University of Washington. He and his wife, Pearl Noreen have two sons, Kevin and Kirk.

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• Bryan Ohno

Bryan Ohno is the president & director of Urban Art Concept that creates, consults and organizes private/public art projects to enliven the grey in the city. It embraces art, in all of its forms, to inspire human connections. UAC evolved from the Bryan Ohno Gallery in Pioneer Square as a new art platform to expand from the traditional art forms of paintings on the wall and sculptures on pedestals. In 2012, UAC worked on the Seattle Parks and Recreation's ARTSparks program and organized the Spiral Art Project supported by Seattle University and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring more awareness to the displaced families in the State of Washington. Past boards include the International Sculpture Center (NJ) and the School of Art, University of Washington. He also served as the founding director for the innovative MadArt projects ('09-'12) and curated the West Edge Sculpture Exhibition ('08).

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• Karen Bouton

Karen Bouton joined the South King County Genealogical Society in 1994, serving as Vice President for two terms. In 2004, she became the Society's Historian and later, the Saar Cemetery Project Coordinator. For her cemetery work, Karen received the 2007 Washington State Genealogical Society award and King County's John D. Spellman Historic Preservation Award in 2008. At the Greater Kent Historical Society; Karen has been the organizer of the Society's obituary project since 2005 and has served as secretary on the Society Board since 2006. In 2007, Karen received a Certificate in Genealogy and Family History from the University of Washington Extension.

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• Brian J. Carter

Brian J. Carter serves as Education Director of the Northwest African American Museum [NAAM], which opened in March 2008. Brian graduated with high honors from Stanford University, where he majored in American History with a minor in African and African American Studies. He is also a graduate of the Master's program in Museology at the University of Washington, where he completed internships with the Henry Art Gallery and NAAM.

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• Patricia Cosgrove
• Board Representative

Patricia is the Director of the White River Valley Museum and the historic Mary Olson Farm, a position she has held since 1990. She has raised $3 million dollars to rebuild and professionalize the Museum and restore the 1880's farm, which will be used as a living history park and environmental learning center for regional audiences. Prior to joining the Museum, she worked as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the University of Puget Sound. She managed the state centennial exhibit celebrating and honoring Washington's Native heritage, "A Time of Gathering."

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• Maya Farrar

Maya Farrar is the Program Administrator for the University of Washington Museology Program and a graduate of that program. She has interests in art, technology and administration. She manages a variety of projects including course and program websites, newsletters and events, as well as assisting with grant fund management. She is also the program liaison with the university's Educational Outreach unit, which provides continuing education through a range of programs, connecting the university with communities across the country. Born and raised in central Mexico, Maya is fluent in Spanish and English. In addition to her Masters of Arts in Museology, Maya holds a Bachelor's in Studio Art.

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• Ellen L. Ferguson

Ellen L. Ferguson has more than 25 years development and community relations experience in museums. From 1981 to 1994, she served as Development Officer at the Burke Museum and, since 1994, has been the Burke's Director of Community Relations. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of Puget Sound and a Master's in Museology from the University of Washington.

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• Chieko Takai Phillips

Chieko Phillips came to King County by way of Roswell, Georgia and found a home at the Northwest African American Museum, where she works as the curatorial assistant. In 2009, Chieko received a BA in History from Davidson College in North Carolina and her MA in Museology from the University of Washington in 2011. Her passion for local history, community historians, and representations of mixed race identity drives her to volunteer with heritage projects around Seattle including those at the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington and the Wing Luke Museum. As an emerging professional, Chieko brings a fresh perspective to King County's heritage museum community.

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• Elizabeth P. Stewart

Elizabeth P. Stewart came to her position as Director of the Renton History Museum in 2006, from Annapolis, Maryland, where she had served as Research Historian for the state-operated Banneker-Douglass Museum for six years. She has a B.A. from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in American History from American University in Washington, D.C.

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• Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry has served as Director of Grants and Exhibits at Humanities Washington over the past three years. She previously worked as Curator of Public Programs at the Washington State History Museum after having served as that institution's Education Curator. Ellen holds a Master's Degree in Not-for-Profit Management from Seattle University, a Master's in Museology from the University of Washington, and a B.A. in Art History from Mount Holyoke College.

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• Heather Trescases

Heather Trescases joined the Eastside Heritage Center as Executive Director in 2005, following a move to Bellevue from her native Toronto, Canada. She holds a Master's in Public History from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, an Honors B.A. in History from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and a Licence d'Histoire from l'Université de Paul Valéry in France. Heather currently serves as President of the Association of King County Historical Organizations [AKCHO].

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• Richard Anderson

Richard Anderson is the Executive Director of the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie. He has been with the Museum for 15 years and has guided the organization through a period of rapid growth, and through a transition from a volunteer-managed museum to one managed by a full time professional staff. Richard has an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia and his area of academic interest is the role railroads played in the development of the west. He is versed in collection care techniques for large artifacts including locomotives, freight cars and coaches.

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• Brooke V. Best

Brooke V. Best is trained as an architectural historian, and received her undergraduate degree at the University of Vermont and M.S. degree at the University of Pennsylvania. For seven years, she worked for R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., a cultural resources management (CRM) firm in Maryland, where she managed a wide range of private, public and Department of Defense projects. Since relocating to Seattle in 1997, she has volunteered with the Southwest Seattle Historical Society, Friends of Georgetown History, AIA Seattle COTE, and DocomomoWEWA. She is currently employed as Historic Seattle's Office Administrator and preservation consultant to the City of Bothell's Landmark Preservation Board.

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• Kathleen Brooker

Kathleen Brooker is the new Executive Director of Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority. Before coming to Seattle, she spent fifteen years as president and CEO of Historic Denver. Prior to that, she served as deputy state preservation officer in the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office. Kathleen was also executive director of the Lowell Historic Board in Lowell, Mass. She has long held an interest in both the arts and heritage, and came to preservation and her interest in the built environment through her training as an architect.

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• Manish Chalana

Manish Chalana is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Design and Planning department at the University of Washington, with an affiliate appointment in the Jackson School of International Studies. He is a multidisciplinary design and planning professional with interests in historic preservation and international planning. Within historic preservation, his research and teaching emphasizes large-scale cultural resource management, multicultural preservation, and preservation of vernacular environments. He has published and presented his work in a variety of planning and preservation journals and venues. Manish has also participated and consulted on preservation projects internationally, especially in Asia. In his free time he likes to read, garden, walk his dog around the Central District, explore cities and travel the world.

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• Jennifer Meisner
• Board Representative

Jennifer Meisner serves as executive director of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, a statewide preservation non-profit. For ten years prior to this appointment, she was lead staff to the Pioneer Square Preservation District Board for the City of Seattle, Department of Neighborhoods. Jennifer earned a Masters of Architecture, with a Certificate in Preservation Planning and Design, from the University of Washington, during which time she participated in the UW Rome Program. Since 1995, she has taught graduate level courses at the UW College of Architecture & Urban Planning.

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• Susan Stevens

Susan Stevens is the current owner of a house that is both on the National Register of Historic Places and a designated King County Landmark. Susan and her family have extensively restored the residence to its original state. Susan is also a co-owner of SGS Glass, a commercial glazing contractor that has performed window replacement and restoration work at several historic buildings in Seattle including the University of Washington's Savery Hall, the Compass Center in Pioneer Square, the Pier 59 Aquarium, and the Colman Building. Susan has 28 years experience in the glass industry, is a currently on the board of directors for the Washington Glass Association.

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• Crystal Whiters

Crystal currently serves as an Intern Architect at Bassetti Architects. She is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During grad school she completed two summer internships at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. This experience included a summer with the National Trust Loan Fund during which she learned about the financing necessary for preserving buildings. After earning Masters degrees in architecture and urban planning, she completed eleven months of service in AmeriCorps in Elkins, WV, where she restored 97-year-old window sashes from Elkins City Hall and painted clapboards on a house that served as a Union hospital during the Civil War. When Crystal is not at work practicing architecture, she enjoys exploring Seattle parks and making pop-up cards.

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• Lucrecia Blanco

Lucrecia Blanco is the Creative Director of Vela Lighting Consultants, working in the realms of sculpture and architecture. She creates both studio works and master planning projects internationally, with an additional focus on sustainability. She has an extensive background with lighting for theater, dance, and opera; and led the theater lighting design department at Northern Illinois University while maintaining an independent practice. She is an associate member of the International Association of Lighting Designers. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Blanco currently resides in Kirkland, WA.

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• Cris Bruch

Cris Bruch is a sculptor and public artist who has been active in the region for over 25 years. His work integrates issues of consumer culture and social/economic disparity with a more formal aesthetic, characterized by the use of non-traditional materials and repetitive processes. His work has been shown extensively in the US and abroad, and he has received numerous awards with highlights including the Betty Bowen Memorial Award; the Neddy Fellowship; the Artist Trust/WASAC Fellowship; and the Pollock Krasner Foundation award. His permanent pieces can be seen in the King County Public Art Collection; on the University of Washington campus in Seattle; at the Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse in Eugene, OR; and along the 5th Avenue Transit Corridor in Portland, OR. Bruch was raised in Kansas City, MO and earned his BFA in ceramics/sculpture at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He then completed his MFA (sculpture) and MA (video) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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• Kevin Carl
• Board Representative

Kevin is a real estate developer, architect and urban designer with a deep interest in community enhancement and sustainability. He is principal of Urban Innovations Group LLC and UIG Applied Energetics, a strategic planning and development firm, focused on green energy systems infrastructure, policy development and planning. Among his signature projects is the Sleeping Lady Retreat and Conference Center in Leavenworth, WA, for which he served as architectural designer and project manager. A more recent project was the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, WA, which brings children ages 9-12 hands-on experiences of fresh water ecologies, biology and sustainable living systems. He is a former Board Chair of the Pioneer Square Community Association's Public Spaces Committee; Vice-Chair of the Seattle Arts Commission; and Chair of the SAC Public Art Committee. He brings urban planning and real estate development experience as well as public art expertise to the 4Culture Board and is a liaison to the Public Art Advisory Committee.

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• Stefano Catalani

Stefano Catalani serves as Director of Curatorial Affairs/Artistic Director at Bellevue Arts Museum. During his time as Curator and continuing as Director, he has conceived and organized acclaimed exhibitions exploring the ever-evolving field of art, craft and design and has championed Northwest artists in his exhibition schedule. Catalani has written and contributed to many publications and exhibition catalogues. He serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Washington, Evergreen State College and other educational institutions. With a classical education in his native Italy, Catalani relocated to Seattle in 2001, bringing a strong theoretical background in art history and philosophy to his work in the region. At Bellevue Arts Museum, he focuses on "craft as a cultural signifier," stressing the social implications of craft.

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• Maria Gamboa

Maria Gamboa is a visual artist who creates two-dimensional works and on-site architectural interventions. She is also a practicing designer with her firm Abarbanel & Gamboa Design, rehabilitating and re-designing homes. She has previously worked as an Adjunct Professor at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, CA, a Museum Educator at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA, an Instructor of Record and Teaching Assistant at RISD, and as a studio assistant to Salomon Huerta in Los Angeles, CA. Gamboa received her BA with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in Berkeley, CA and her MFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. Her awards at these institutions are numerous, and include a Presidential Scholar Fellowship at RISD and ArtsBridge Scholarship at UC Berkeley. Gamboa brings a unique perspective to our PAAC through her upbringing in a migrant farm-working family.

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• James Hughes

James Hughes is a trans-disciplinary artist focused on the intersection between art and technology. His work is concerned with systems, agency and information. James' research involves the use of real-time audio/video processing, audio/video synthesis, computer vision, sensors, networks, robotics and artificial intelligence to create interactive installations and performance platforms. James heads up the Fabrication Lab at the University of Washington Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) where he teaches art students everything from programming and electronics, to woodworking and CNC machining.

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• Robert Hutchison

Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison received a MArch degree from the University of Washington in 1996, and a BS degree in Structural Engineering and a BS degree in Architectural Engineering from Drexel University in 1990. In 2001, Hutchison formed the Seattle-based architectural firm Hutchison & Maul Architecture in collaboration with his friend and colleague Tom Maul. In 2013, Hutchison established the architecture studio Robert Hutchison Architecture. Hutchison is a recipient of the "2009 Emerging Voice" by the Architectural League of NY, and one of five artists to be awarded the 2010 Japan-US Creative Artists Fellowship by the Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hutchison is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to serving on the 4Culture Public Art Advisory Committee, Hutchison sits on the board of the independent non-profit architectural organization Space.City.

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• Erika Dalya Massaquoi

Erika Dalya Massaquoi is an arts, culture and media professional with over a decade of executive leadership experience in the public and private sectors. She recently moved to Seattle from Manhattan, where she was Assistant Dean of the School of Art and Design at The Fashion Institute of Technology at the State University of New York. She currently serves as a Board Trustee of Seattle's Pratt Fine Arts Center and is a Board Director of The Feminist Press in New York City. As a curator, she has held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Museum of the Moving Image. She has worked as a commentator with NPR and as a Producer/Correspondent with Oxygen Media. She holds a BA in History and a MA in Social Sciences from The University of Chicago, and a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts.

The Board of Directors meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month (except when noted) at 4:00 in the 4Culture offices.

For more information, please contact Melissa Newbill, 206 296.4816.

2013 Meeting Schedule

January 23   |   February 27   |  March 27   |   April 24   |   May 22   |   June 26   |   July & August (no regular meeting)
September 25   |   October 23   |   November (no regular meeting)  |   December 4

Board Committee Meeting Schedule

Executive Committee: Monday, June 17, 2013, 3:30 - 5:30 PM

Finance Committee: Monday, June 17, 2013, 3:30 - 5:30 PM

Governance Committee: TBD

Real Estate Advisory Committee: TBD

all committee meetings are at 4Culture offices unless otherwise noted

The Arts Advisory Committee meets on the third Tuesday of each month from 3:30-5:30 in the 4Culture offices.

For more information, please contact Charlie Rathbun, 206 296.8675.

2013 Meeting Schedule

January 15   |   February 19   |  March 19 [cancelled]   |   April 16   |   May 21   |   June 18   |   July 17
August 20   |   September 17   |   October 15   |   November 19   |   December 17

The Heritage Advisory Committee meets on the second Wednesday of every other month at 3pm in the 4Culture offices.

For more information, please contact Eric Taylor, 206 296.8688

2013 Meeting Schedule

February 13  |  April 10  |  June 12  |  August 14  |  October 9  |  December 11

The Preservation Advisory Committee meets at 3pm in the 4Culture offices on the following dates.

For more information, please contact Flo Lentz, 206 296.8682.

2013 Meeting Schedule

February 7  |  April 4  |  June 20  |  August 1  |  October 3  |  December 5

The Public Art Advisory Committee meets on the third Thursday of every month at 9am in the 4Culture offices.

For more information, please contact Willow Fox, 206 205.8024

2013 Meeting Schedule

January 17  |  February 21  |  March 21  |  April 18  |  May 16  |  June 20  |  July 18  |  September 5 & 19  |  October 17
November 21  |  December 19

The Local Arts Agency Network meets every other month on the 4th Thursday from 9:30 to 12:30. Locations vary.

For more information, please contact Charlie Rathbun, 206 296.8675

2013 Meeting Schedule

January 24   |  March 28  |  May 23  |  July 25  |  September 26  |  November 21