Jean B. Boyer Cowling, Medford, Chair
Jean Boyer Cowling, supporter of arts education, taught art for 17 years to junior high and high school students in Medford’s 549-C School District. Following her career in teaching, Boyer Cowling was International Sales Manager, responsible for sales to 27 countries, for Sabroso Company, a manufacturer of fruit purees. She has been a board member and president of the Rogue Valley Art Association, chaired the Craterian Committee which developed plans for the re-use of the Craterian Theatre as a performing arts center, and has been involved in local fundraising efforts for the Schneider Art Museum, the Jackson County Central Library and the Southern Oregon University Foundation. Boyer Cowling received a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MAT in Fine Arts from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Chicago.
Term Expires: 5/10/2014
email: Jean Boyer Cowling
Boyd Harris, Condon
Boyd Harris is a founder, past chair, and current president of the Greater Condon Arts
Association. (Co-Arts), a 37 year-young cultural organization dedicated to "Expanding
the Cultural Consciousness of our Communities" and, with the new sister
organization "LB Arts," supplementing school art programs and budgets.
Boyd serves on many boards related to the arts and has been the recipient of
a variety of artistic and volunteer awards. He was mayor of Condon for seven
years. Boyd conceived "Art Slate," a juried Northwest art exhibit
now in its eighth successful year.
Term expires: 8/31/2010
e-mail: Boyd Harris
Royal Nebeker, Gearhart
Royal Nebeker is an internationally exhibited painter and printmaker. He has been committed to arts education both locally and abroad throughout his career. He was a full time member of the art faculty at Clatsop Community College from 1978 through 2004. In Oregon, Nebeker has been a visiting artist-teacher, and guest lecturer at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon, among others. As director of the art department at Clatsop Community College, he oversaw the growth and development of the art program and gallery. Through his Sami heritage, he has a keen interest in the art of indigenous and northern people. He received an MFA from Brigham Young University and a Meisters Grad (an MFA equivalent) from the National School of Fine Arts in Oslo, Norway. He is represented by Augen Gallery in Portland.
Term Expires: 3/19/2014
email: Royal Nebeker
Ron Paul, Portland
Ron Paul is a self-described civic entrepeneur with extensive private and public sector experience in developing socially responsible enterprises with high levels of creativity, visibility and integrity. With a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Oregon, his position as Chief of Staff for former Portland City Commissioner Charlies Hales included a number of special projects related to arts and culture. Upon appointment to the Commission, he stated, "The arts in Oregon are at a crossroads. Public support could never be more important nor harder to achieve than in this climate of scarcity. At the same time, respected economists around the country are beginning to quantify the dividends artists create for our community. I appreciate the governor's nomination to the Arts Commission, and I join as an advocate for this important,creative force in our state."
Term Expires: 3/14/2012
email: Ron Paul
Henry Sayre, Bend, Vice Chair
Henry Sayre is a Distinguished Professor of Art History at Oregon State University-Cascades Campus since 2001, and from 1983 through 2001, he taught art history at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Sayre is a prolific writer who has written about almost every aspect of the arts. He recently completed a six-volume history, The Humanities: Culture, Continuity, and Change. His textbook, A World of Art, now in its 6th edition, is one of the most widely used art appreciation texts in the country. His children’s book, Cave Paintings to Picasso, won the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature at the 2005 Oregon Book Awards. Sayre received a BA with Honors and Distinction in the Humanities from Stanford University and a PhD from the University of Washington.
Term Expires: 10/31/2010
email: Henry Sayre
Libby Tower, Eugene
Libby Tower is the Marketing and Public Relations Manager for The Hult Center for the Performing Arts, in Eugene. She brings broad experience in marketing and public relations as well as with tourism projects, having served two terms on the Oregon Tourism Commission from 1991-2000, including a term as vice-chair. Tower received a BFA in printmaking from the University of Oregon, and was on the Board of Visitors for the University's School of Architecture and Allied Arts from 2002 to 2008.
Term Expires: 12/8/2013
email: Libby Tower
Julie Vigeland, Portland
Julie Vigeland is an advocate for Oregon’s arts and culture groups. She brings extensive volunteer experience with arts and cultural nonprofits to the commission. She is a member of the Giving in Oregon Council, Oregon’s think tank on philanthropy and giving. Since 1995, she has served on the board of Portland Center Stage, serving as chair for five years and chairing the Capital Campaign for the Gerding Theater at the Armory. Vigeland is one of three trustees of the Jackson Foundation as well as a trustee of the Wessinger Foundation. Her board service in the Portland area also includes the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Symphony Foundation, Friends of the Portland Center for Performing Arts, and Oregon College of Art & Craft. She is a past president of Grantmakers of Oregon and SW Washington. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Women of Distinction Award for the Arts presented by Marylhurst University.
Term Expires: 7/26/2013
email:Julie Vigeland
