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tamarind advisory board bios

Lance Armer Santa Fe, NM
Lance Armer has owned and operated Santa Fe Mortgage since 1993. From 1980 to 1993 he was in radio broadcasting, first as the owner and manager of
KLFQ-FM, Hutchinson, KS (1982-1986), and then as manager and part owner of KBOM-FM, Santa Fe, NM (1987-1993).

He has served on numerous boards including the Kansas Association of Broadcasters; the Santa Fe Food Depot (Regional Food Bank), where he was its president in 2001; the Santa Fe Pro Music Chamber Orchestra; and the Santa Fe Advertising Club Board (President, 1990).

Michael Emerson Albuquerque, NM
Michael is a graduate of the UNM College of Engineering (BS Mechanical Engineering) and is President of Sound Point, a venture development and business advisory firm. Michael also has an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington.

Michael has a long history of philanthropy and fund raising at UNM. He has served on the UNM Foundation Board of Trustees since 2002 and is currently chair of its Development Committee. He was the founding chair of the Friends of the Presidential Scholarship Program and he and his wife, Kathy Naassan, recently endowed a UNM Presidential Scholarship. Besides his work with the UNM Foundation, he has served on the board of the Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque. He and his family live in Albuquerque.

Bud Johns San Francisco, CA
Bud Johns began a lifetime of writing/editing/publishing while still a teenager as a Michigan newspaper reporter. He co-founded Apple Tree Press in 1954 (still operating in the book publishing business as part of McGraw Hill), moved to a Southern California newspaper in 1956 and to San Francisco in 1961 as bureau chief for Fairchild Publications. He founded Synergistic Press (a book publishing company he still operates) in 1968, the year before he joined Levi Strauss & Co. for a stint as vice president of corporate communications. While there he was responsible for a conference that included Clinton Adams on the program. That encounter led to friendships with Clinton and Marge Devon, and a deep interest in and appreciation for Tamarind.

He has published four books and countless magazine articles. He has served on numerous boards, recently reducing them to just one besides Tamarind: Greenbelt Alliance, a San Francisco Bay Area open space conservation/land use planning non-profit organization. He has been a board member there for more than twenty years, an executive committee member for more than fifteen, and was the president for four. Last year he resigned from the board of San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (after twenty years) and Applewood Books in Massachusetts (after fifteen years).

Tony Jones Chicago, IL
Tony Jones is Chancellor of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) after two terms as president. Besides his leadership at SAIC, he has served as Director at both the Glasgow School of Art, and the Royal College of Art, London. He is an internationally known arts administrator, broadcaster, writer and historian of art and design.

Don Michaelis Albuquerque, NM
Don Michaelis lives in Albuquerque with his wife, Pamela. For 23 years Don and Pamela owned the The Collector's Guide, a publication covering art, artists, galleries and museums of New Mexico. Don is currently active with The New Mexico Museum of Art and is participating in an effort to establish a sustainable funding mechanism for arts and culture in the Albuquerque metro area. He was also s a member of Tamarind's Capital Campaign Committee, helping to raise funds for the renovation or Tamarind's new home.

Frank Purcell Taos, NM
Frank Purcell grew up in Palm Springs, California, and has degrees in geology from USC. He served as an Air Force pilot, had a brief teaching career, and then returned to Palm Springs to enter the retail building materials business. For thirty-eight years he owned and managed several construction related businesses. He served as President of the State Lumber Association and as Director of the State Hardware Association.

He has been involved with many civic associations and activities including: director of a financial institution; city councilman; Mayor Pro-Tem; Jaycee President and JCI Senator; member of the Chamber of Commerce; board member of the Boy Scouts. He also served for a number of years as Trustee and Vice President of the Board of The Desert Museum in Palm Springs, California. He currently serves as advisory board member and co-chair of the the Directors Circle of the UNM Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.

One of his ongoing special interests has been collecting and appreciating works on paper with special focus on the works of Gene Kloss. Frank and his wife, Joy, live in Taos and Palm Springs. They have been married for fifty years, and have four children and eleven grandchildren.

Melissa Rountree Santa Fe, NM
Melissa Rountree served as Curator of the Fine Art Collection at Hallmark Cards, Inc., in Kansas City, Missouri from 1990-2008. In this position she added significantly to the size and importance of one of the nation's most prominent corporate art collections. She has curated numerous outside exhibitions, including "Sol Lewitt: Prints from the 1990s" for the University of Missouri-St. Louis; "The 1970's: Suites and Portfolios from the Hallmark Art Collection" for the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute; and "Prints by the Sculptors from the Hallmark Fine Art Collection" for the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida.

She received a Bachelor of Individualized Studies from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. She was curator at the Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, from 1987 to 1990.

She has served as a member the Grand Arts Advisory Panel since 1998. Other committee activity includes the Charlotte Street Fund in Kansas City (2001 - 2003), Exhibits USA Advisory Panel (1994 - 1996), Midwest Museum Conference Program Committee (1993 - 1994). She has also been a Visiting Instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute where she taught History of American Printmaking since 1995.

David Schorr New York, NY
David is a native of Chicago, educated at Brown and Yale, and now lives in New York. He has been Professor of Art at Wesleyan since 1971 where he has taught printmaking, drawing, typography, book design, graphic design and calligraphy. He has been a Fulbright Scholar three times, to Italy in 1975, where he worked at the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome and to India in 1998 and 2001. He continues to go to India every year where he has served as adjunct professor at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. He is currently represented by Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City and his works can be seen at davidschorr.com.

Besides having worked at Tamarind, David has had solo exhibitions across the globe and is included in many museum collections.

Ronald W. Stovitz San Francisco, CA
Ronald W. Stovitz is retired Presiding Judge of the State Bar Court of California and serves as a Regent of the 10-campus University of California system. He received his B.A. degree in political science in 1964 from the University of California, Riverside, and his Juris Doctorate in 1967 from the University of Southern California Law School. He was appointed by the Supreme Court of California in 1989 to one of the first full-time judgeships created to decide appeals in all cases of attorney discipline and regulation. He was elevated to the Presiding Judgeship in 2001. He continues to serve the State Bar Court pro tem in retirement.

Judge Stovitz has served as President of the National Organization of Bar Counsel and was the founding President of the National Council of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards. For more than 20 years, he served as an invited faculty member of the American Bar Association's Annual Conference on Professional Responsibility. He has also served as an ex officio member of the California Judges Association Ethics Committee and chaired its Electronic Information Committee. He has served as President of the UCR Alumni Association and currently serves as a Trustee of the UCR Foundation. He has a long interest in art collection and works on paper, in particular.