Board & Staff

Kathleen Ward is a writer and printmaker currently exploring Nalanda Miksang, the practice of contemplative photography. It has been liberating to discover and explore her visual, authentic voice after more than 20 years of writing and creating for others.

A New Jersey native, Kathleen has extensive experience in nonprofit executive leadership, strategic planning and partnership building and is a founder of The Hunterdon Art Tour (THAT). She holds a BA from Rutgers College at Rutgers University in History and Journalism/Mass Media.

Kathleen arrived in Portland about a year ago and is ready to establish roots in this westward place she now calls home. She is grateful and deeply honored to be part of Portland Open Studios!

Sarah is an independent graphic designer with thirty years of experience creating visual communications and strategic brand identities for businesses and nonprofits. Alongside her design work, she’s a working artist. Her first solo show opened in 2020, and she continues to create works using her unexpected natural materials like onion skins and mushroom spores. She’s called Portland home since 2008, where she keeps bees, grows native plants, and enjoys strolling the city with her corgi.

Tim is a self-confessed ‘artaholic’ who has religiously attended every Portland Open Studios since moving to Portland from Arizona in 2016. Now semi-retired following a 30 year career as an Information Systems Consultant/Database Designer for non-profit arts organizations, Tim has also served on the Board of the 5,000 member Los Angeles Macintosh Users Group in the 1990s and looks forward to bringing his experience with non-profit management to the Portland Open Studios Board and continuing his engagement with the visual arts.

Tim had a previous, 20-year career as a mineral exploration geologist in the Australian bush, enjoying nature’s artwork, while fending off poisonous snakes and kangaroos. When not working or looking at art, Tim loves experiencing Oregon’s magnificent scenery, flora & fauna (particularly birds) and taking advantage of any social occasion to partake of food, wine, and friendship.

Elizabeth Warner-Lamback moved to Portland in 2004, after graduating from the California College of the Arts with a degree in architecture. She is the only member of the board who is not a professional artist; however, she has been a patron of Portland Open Studios for over a decade, visiting many of the studios with her daughter, who is also a budding artist. She loves the creativity and community the organization fosters and hopes to see it flourish for decades to come. When not working on the board for PDXOS, Elizabeth works full-time as a construction manager building affordable housing in Portland. She also enjoys time with her family and her many pets, including four chickens, a Labrador, and a bearded dragon.

Peter Carey is an artist and creative entrepreneur living in SW Portland. Trained as a photographer, Peter now spends his time making paintings, listening to his record collection, and working in his business providing continuing education to design professionals. Peter is passionate about building and interacting with the local Portland art community and inspiring others.

Katie Miranda is a fine artist with a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Graphic Novels from the Academy of Art University. Her career centers on painting, informed by a previous career as a cartoonist and an independent Arabic calligraphy jewelry designer. Katie’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery in Washington, D.C., and in juried group shows such as the Sharjah Capital of Islamic Culture festival in the UAE, the MUSLIMA: Muslim Women’s Art and Voices exhibit, Desert Designs in Saudi Arabia, and a traveling cartoon exhibition in Palestine. Her Palestinian Pietà was featured in the art history book Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and It’s Afterlives and her cartoons have been featured in numerous news sites and printed anthologies. As a board member of PDX Open Studios, Katie is committed to fostering connection between buyers and artists.

Charlotte Cunningham has called Portland home since 1999. She has been an enthusiastic supporter of Portland Open Studios since the early 2000s, and was thrilled to take on a supportive role more than 10 years ago. While not a professional artist, she does enjoy painting, pottery and the fabric arts and is happy to use her BFA to teach at a local studio as well. When not creating, she supports several small businesses administratively, and goes on frequent Dungeons & Dragons adventures with her family and friends.