EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

.As AVA’s Executive Director since 2018, Annie is passionate about fostering the arts to build a strong, diverse, and inclusive community. The former Executive Director of the Union County Art and Culture Center (now “Arts Center East”) from 2012-2015 in La Grande, Ore., Annie was instrumental in bolstering that organization’s community arts education program and helping facilitate a horizontal merger with another, complementary arts organization.

PRESIDENT / SECRETARY

Cindy Price is an accomplished writer, editor, and researcher, with substantial experience in strategic planning and analysis. She has produced numerous public and cultural affairs programs for the regional public radio station, Coast Community Radio. Cindy is a former Astoria City Councilor and since 1999 has served several previous terms on AVA's Board of Directors.

VICE PRESIDENT

Linh is an accomplished branding, marketing, and hospitality executive with the expertise of providing memorable brand campaigns and unforgettable guest experiences. She is the Director of Brand & Communications, Pacific Coast, for Vesta Hospitality, headquartered in Vancouver, Washington. She serves as a member of the Astoria Downtown Historic District Association’s Business Development Committee and the Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce’s Lower Columbia Tourism Committee.

TREASURER

Ray is a retired Astoria School District teacher. He is a former Board Member of Astoria's Downtown Historic District Association and former Design Committee chair. He is a co-founder of Studio 11'sSidewalk Prism Glass Repair Project.  Ray served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Tillicum Foundation, the governing body of community radio stations KMUN, KTCB, and KCPB in a number of capacities, including assisting in the broadcast of the Fisher Poets Gathering.

BOARD MEMBER

Laurie and her husband, ceramicist David Campiche, owned and operated the Shelburne Hotel and Restaurant for over 40 years, along with China Beach Retreat (now Baker Bay Retreat). Laurie has served on several boards over the years, including the Peninsula Visitors Bureau, Unique Inns (a regional consortium of independently owned inns) and Select Registry (a national consortium of inns). Now retired, Laurie spends more time pursuing creative personal interests and believes a thriving arts community is essential to the quality of life for any community,

BOARD MEMBER

Janelle founded Studio Art Direct, a women-owned business specializing in the creation of unique custom art and graphics for the built environment representing regional artists. Her work includes design, project management, contract negotiations, programming, art curation, commissions, engineering, fabrication, and installation. Janelle began her career as an anthropologist which provided valuable knowledge concerning man’s relationship to his environment and the cultural value of art as a mainstay of who we are as humans.

Mark's parents enrolled him in Portland's Museum Art School at an early age so they could rest. It worked. After a career in marketing, public relations, program management, design and speaking, his perpetual adrenaline rush continues today, typically exhibited as enthusiasm, innovation and other general annoyances. He tries to make things interesting, and most of the time, it works.

BOARD MEMBER

David creates captivating, expressive pen and ink drawings and paintings. Often whimsical, sometimes contemplative, David’s artwork immerses the viewer into a fanciful, emotional world. His scope of work encompasses sculpture and film as well.  David earned a BA in Fine Art at the University of Denver and a BFA from The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and has studied at The Museum Art School (PNCA) and Portland State University.

Rachel believes in the power of art to socially engage and the role of nonprofits for civic vitality. Her creative work includes advocacy and organizing community art projects along with teaching and creating her own artwork. A multi-media and installation artist with a practice incorporating photography, drawing, video, fabric, and artist's books. She began to utilize art as a social tool while an undergraduate student completing degrees in the Practice of Art and Peace & Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley. She lives in Astoria, Oregon, teaches photography online for Portland Community College, and makes art in her home studio.

FOUNDER / CURATOR

A founding member of AVA and of community radio station KMUN, Agnes has been a practicing artist on the north Oregon coast for over 20 years. In 2013 she was granted a residency in Finland for 40 days, which included presentations at the Pori Art Museum. Agnes was awarded a PICA/ Precipice Fund, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts and Calligram Foundation, to restore a local historic Astoria city park. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and can be seen on the coast at the AVA Gallery, the Cannon Beach Gallery, the Fairweather Gallery, and others.

MISS BEA PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Keri has a Masters in Science Education, endorsements in Elementary Education K-8 and Art K-12, and has taught for 20 years. She combines professional experience working with students with passion for art and creative expression to put together exciting art opportunities for the youth in our community.

GALLERY DOCENT COORDINATOR

Carol began studying art in 1998 and for many years took classes at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, the teaching institute of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. During these years her emphases were on drawing, painting, sculpture, and art history. Her art has been shown in group and individual exhibits in Texas. Since relocating to Astoria, she has participated in several shows in a variety of venues.