Gage Academy of Art is guided by a board of local and national advisors with expertise in educational, business and nonprofit affairs, and an artistic advisory board comprised of nationally and internationally recognized artists and gallery owners from around the world.

Gage continues to seek and recruit community leaders with a passion for arts education to serve on a variety of committees and the Board of Trustees. Please email presidentoftheboard@gageacademy.org to learn more about leadership opportunities at Gage.

Meet our Board of Trustees!

 

Connie Mao

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Christine Gedye

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Grant Ray

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Mary Fisher

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Anastasia Kim

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Erik Haroldson

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Ben Kalman

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Rock Hushka

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David Eggleston

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Sean Higgins

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Patricia Pugsley

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Grant Ray

An accidental technologist by way of art school, Grant is an entrepreneurial veteran in automotive, autonomous, deep tech, and energy sectors, where he's spent the majority of his career helping bring new ideas into the moving world.

Currently, he is VP of Global Market Strategy at Group14 Technologies, a silicon battery technology company based in Seattle. A serial mobility marketing veteran, Grant spearheads all the company's marketing efforts, including helping to define go-to-market strategies, customer trends and platform solutions across the automotive, autonomous and deep tech sectors. He received his MBA from Pepperdine University, but he considers his undergrad experience at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he received his BFA, to be one of the defining cornerstones that helped shape his life-long practice in creative exploration across art and technology.

Gage Academy of Art acknowledges the Coast Salish Peoples as the original inhabitants of this area and connecting waterways. We understand the land that Gage occupies is unceded territory and that today many Indigenous peoples live here and without their stewardship, we would not have access to this space. We honor the Coast Salish Peoples’ sovereignty, rights to self-determination, culture and ways of life. Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have called this territory their sacred land. We commit to learning, educating others and repairing the legacy of historically harmful relationships between non-Native and Native peoples in King County. In doing so, we will be honest, and recognize the experiences of Native peoples to include genocide, forced relocation, forced assimilation, and land theft. We also acknowledge Native peoples are survivors, present in today’s world, thriving. We encourage everyone here today to ask themselves: what can I do to support Indigenous communities?

In an effort to be transparent, Gage is contemplating this call to action and re-working how to best support Indigenous communities.

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