Officers:

Paula Johanson - President

Justin Rae - Vice President 

Cacey Tangney - Treasurer

Julie Gregory - Secretary

Directors:

Steve Hultberg

Joanne Mathews

Rebecca Warner 

Aaron Switzer 

Brenda Komar

Cate O'Hagan
Executive Director
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Cate O’Hagan has been the executive director of Arts Central since 1995.  The position is multi-faceted, from managing the former Mirror Pond Gallery, earning  Arts Central the designation of Regional Art Council of the Oregon Arts Commission in 1997, founding the Art Station in 2000, assuming the management of the Artists in Schools program in 2000, to launching VanGo, a mobile art studio project serving rural communities and youth at risk.  The position also oversees the managing the two significant historic facilities that house Arts Central’s education + resource Center, the Goodwillie-Allen-Rademacher House (former gallery location ) and the Art Station, located in Bend’s historic train depot.

O’Hagan graduated with a B.A. in art and acquired a secondary level teaching certificate from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.  She has held senior management positions with the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and with the Portland Art Association, the Oregon Symphony, and the Oregon Ballet Company in Portland, Oregon.  As an independent contractor of 10 years, she specialized in marketing, public relations and event management.  She is a cellist and visual artist.

She serves on the boards of the Deschutes Cultural Trust, Art in Public Places, is on the editorial board of Cascade Business News and Cascade Arts and Entertainment, serves as the manager for public art programs, and is the lead partner for arts and culture for Bend’s visioning process, Bend 2030.

John Negrau
Development and Marketing Manager
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John Negrau is the Development and Marketing Manager for Arts Central and has been with the organization since October 2009.  In his short time with Arts Central, John has completely re-vamped the organization’s website, developed a solid social media presence, created a consistently well received  online newsletter, established tracking metrics for all efforts, re-created the organizations membership and sponsorship models (and put them online), coordinated the re-design of all organizational collateral, created and implemented an on-going “Friend Drive” (membership and donation campaign), created and chaired a new branded member appreciation event called the “Fleece + Flannel Ball”, and got the donor management system and database up-to-date (with a heavy emphasis on donor recognition).

John graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelor of Science in Management and a Minor in Finance.  Prior to Arts Central, he was the Operations and Development Manager for Working Wonders Children’s Museum (another local non-profit) for three years where he was responsible for overseeing $215,000 or 45% of the museums’ total operating budget.  John also set up all operational museum systems, while also creating extensive tracking models for all earned revenue.  When John was 19 (and still in college), he started a very successful temporary staffing agency in Chicago, IL with 6 subcontractors and 1 client and grew the business to provide jobs for over 600 subcontractors, 13 clients, earning over $330,000 in annual revenue.  This business is still operating today.

Heather McNally
Program Manager
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Heather McNally, Arts Central's Program Manager has been with the organization since January 2008. With a B.A. in History and minor in Art History from N. Arizona University, Heather brings with her more than ten years of work in arts administration. Working for museums like the Hammer Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, and most recently the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Heather brings a diverse arts and culture experience to her work.

In addition to managing the Art Station and developing its programming, Heather administers Arts Central's art education outreach programs VanGo and Artists in Schools, partnering with public schools and non-profit organizations for at-risk youth in our five-county service region.
 

Tracy Alexander
Program Assistant
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