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SARATOGA, Calif. Montalvo Arts Center welcomes four new members to its Board of Trustees for the fiscal year 2012-13. These individuals are Mickie Anderson, Kelleen Sullivan Finn, Bruce McCann, and Daniel J. Muller. Their three-year terms are effective immediately, and the institution will gain from their expertise in the diverse areas including arts education and practice, wine-making, cuisine, and employment law.
Since Montalvo was founded in as an independent nonprofit in 1953, we have been guided by a Board of Trustees comprised of forward-thinking, arts-focused community members, said Montalvo Executive Director, Angela McConnell. We are are honored to welcome Mickie, Kelleen, Bruce, and Daniel to this distinguished group this spring.
For all of her life, community leader Mickie Anderson has been passionate about learning and the arts. Professionally, Anderson is a speech therapist, art therapist, and teacher to the deaf who received her B.S.
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from the University of Texas, and two M.A. degrees, one from the College of Notre Dame de Namur and the other form San Jose State University. She has served on the board of a number of important nonprofit groups in the Bay Area, such as the Saint Andrews School, St. Lukes Episcopal Church, and the San Jose Ballet, of which we was also a Founder and Executive Committee Member. Her relationship with Montalvo Arts Center has spanned many years and includes prior terms on the Board of Trustees, and a current active role on the Montalvo Building and Grounds Committee.
Kelleen Sullivan Finn is a classically-trained visual artistshe studied at the International Academy of Art in Nice, France, and the Brera Art Academy in Milan, Italy and holds a B.F.A. from U.C. Daviswho maintains studios in Los Altos Hills and Maui. Finns work has been shown in galleries all over the world, in cities such as San Francisco, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Milan, and Bali, and is collected by major corporations and celebrities. She comes from a wine-making family and, along with her siblings, she is actively involved in managing Sullivan Vineyards, a winery estate in Rutherford, CA.
Sonoma County native Bruce McCann was named President of International Culinary Center California in 2012. Prior to this, he served as General Counsel to the ICC in its Manhattan headquarters. A tax and real estate attorney by training, he has advised hundreds of wineries, winemakers, and grape producers throughout California, Oregon, and internationally on all facets of the industry, ranging from vineyard development to business strategy. McCann is also an adjunct Professor of Law in both Real Property Law and Corporate Law at Empire College School of Law in Sonoma County. In this capacity, he has written on the subject of corporate financing of elections for the law review. He has served on numerous corporate boards, both non-profit and for-profit, and has been an officer of several highly regarded California-based wineries. A partner in the Silicon Valley office of international legal firm Nixon Peabody, Daniel Muller specializes in California labor and employment law. He holds a B.S. degree from Santa Clara University and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law. Some of the highlights of his professional career include representing a large Silicon Valley software company in a commercial defamation matter; defending a start-up company against theft of trade secret claims brought by a competitor; and defending employers against claims of unlawful harrassment, employment discrimination, and failure to pay wages. He is a member of both the California State Bar and the American Bar Association. The Montalvo Board of Trustees numbers 31, including Charmaine Warmenhoven and Sally Lucas, both Lifetime Trustees, and four officers: Cathie Thermond, who continues as Board President through autumn 2013; newly-named Board President Elect David Hsieh, who will assume the presidency in October; Tom
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Crotty, Board Treasurer; and Marcia Hansen, Board Secretary. The Board serves as the governing body of Montalvo Arts Center. For a complete list of board members, visit http://montalvoarts.org/trustees/. ###
Montalvo Arts Center is an oasis of culture and nature whose mission is to create and present arts of all types, nurture artists, and use our historic Villa, buildings, and grounds in innovative ways that engage people in the creative process. Located in Silicon Valley's Saratoga hills, Montalvo occupies a Mediterranean-style Villa, built in 1912 by Senator James Duval Phelan, surrounded by 175 stunning acres, including the campus of our international Lucas Artists Residency Program. Senator Phelan bequeathed the villa and grounds to the people of California for the encouragement of art, music, literature and architecture, a mandate that Montalvo has carried forward ever since its founding. For more information, call (408) 961-5800 or visit www.montalvoarts.org.
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