Board Of Directors
Chuck Bloser
Board Member- Treasurer
Chuck has a robust, 35-year tax preparation and financial consulting business, the “second act” that he built concurrent with a long career as Senior Sales & Marketing Manager at AGC Chemicals Americas. Chuck’s passion for tax preparation and volunteer work led him to explore his interests in financial management, investments, retirement and college funding strategies, as well as real estate and investor coaching. Chuck earned his BS and MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Economics from the University of Michigan. Five months into his engineering career he realized sitting at a desk was not for him and transitioned into technical sales and management. He developed a domestic and international portfolio in excess of $400 million and managed a team of up to 14 sales reps.
Zach Carr
Board Member
Zach Carr is a Small Business Specialist at U.S. Bank. He is a dedicated professional and active community advocate with a rich background in management and banking. In addition to his professional role, Zach is a local mixed media artist and an active participant in the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce.
Zach began his career in management with Batteries Plus in Houston, TX, where he was an integral part in opening and managing four franchise locations. Later, he moved to Fort Collins, CO, working as a store manager at AT&T. In his current role at U.S. Bank, Zach enhances the relationships between small business owners and members of the community.
Cathy Morgan
Board Member
Cathy has been a supporter of MoA since moving to Fort Collins in 2015. Always an avid art lover, she understands the importance of MoA as a vibrant community asset. Cathy spent much of her career in advertising and marketing, first in the corporate world for Zenith Electronics and Outboard Marine Corporation. From there she moved on to marketing, event planning and web design for two Illinois non-profits, FamilyFarmed.org and Conserve Lake County, organizing events from 300 to 2000 people. Cathy previously served as board secretary for Poudre Valley Community Farms and used her experience as a web designer with Poudre Wilderness Volunteers, both here in Fort Collins.
Rachael Russell
Board Member
Rachael Russell is a Buffalo, NY native who has called Fort Collins, CO home for nearly a decade. She spent eight years working for the City of Fort Collins in the Natural Areas department and The Lincoln Center before beginning her current path toward a career as a financial advisor. A recent graduate from the Colorado State University Master of Business Administration program, Rachael is passionate about using her business expertise to support local organizations. She has previously volunteered and fundraised for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Expanding Horizons Farm, and Fort Collins Police Services, to name a few. Outside of work and service, she enjoys the Colorado outdoors through hiking, cycling, ice climbing, or paddleboarding.
Patti Tyrrell
Board member
Patti Tyrrell moved to Fort Collins in 1973 with her husband, David A. Tyrrell. She was a union laborer for 45 years, in part to help her husband’s life work as an artist. Patti is excited to be part of the Museum of Art Fort Collins and is looking forward to helping share the value of the Arts with the Fort Collins community.
Steve Vandermeer
Board Member- Chair
Steve VanderMeer is an Executive Consultant with over 40 years working in and around public and private nonprofit organizations. Mr. VanderMeer has a long history within the nonprofit world. His first job out of undergrad was with the Philadelphia Zoo, doing curriculum development, marketing, and fundraising. After earning his Master’s in Public Administration he began work with the City of Fort Collins Colorado as an assistant to the city manager, working closely with the city manager and city council managing public participation and continuous improvement efforts. Mr. VanderMeer then moved over to the municipal utility as the director of marketing and energy services, overseeing utility branding, market research, green power, and energy conservation programs.
Mr. VanderMeer has served on numerous governing and advisory boards. He was a founding board member and vice-president of the Friends of Philadelphia Parks, which today, as Philadelphia Parks Alliance, remains an active advocate of the city’s park system. For 13 years Mr. VanderMeer served on the board of directors of the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, six years as board president. During this time, Mr. VanderMeer facilitated an historic public-private partnership with the City of Fort Collins, culminating with the building of a $29 million state of the art, LEED Platinum museum. More recently, he has served on the board of Legacy Land Trust and the Larimer County Open Lands Advisory Board.
Leslie Walker
Board Member
Leslie Walker has been a lover of the arts for decades. She has worked in marketing and fundraising positions in galleries, museums, cable television, universities, community art centers and other non-profits.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Denver. She decided it was best to make lots of money in business and become a patron of the arts. To that end, she and her husband, Dale, have assembled a collection specializing in contemporary Mexican and Outsider art.
Prior to joining the board of the Museum of Art, she served on boards for Young Artists Orchestra, Colorado Historic Society, Historic Salida, Inc., Salida Aspen Music Festival, Fort Collins Cultural Resources Board, and as an historic presentation commissioner.
She loves dogs, biking, hiking, pickleball, drawing, painting and reading.
Staff
Lynn Boland, PhD
Executive Director
Lynn Boland received their PhD in art history at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on connections between art, music, and science in the early 20th century, with a secondary specialization in contemporary art. From 2009 to 2017, they were the Pierre Daura Curator of European Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. From 2017 to 2025, they served as Director and Chief Curator of the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University. Lynn has also worked as an independent curator and advisor, co-founding the project and exhibition platform Art + Access.
Lynn’s exhibitions and catalogues have received awards from numerous organizations including the College Art Association, the American Alliance of Museums, Southeastern College Art Association, Southeastern Museums Association, and Art Libraries Society of North America; their projects have received support from Terra Foundation for American Art, Henry Luce Foundation, The Getty Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. Lynn joined Museum of Art Fort Collins as Executive Director in July 2026.
kim graves
Director of advancement
I am thrilled to join the Museum of Art Fort Collins as the Development Manager. I come to MoA most recently from Bohemian Foundation, where I worked to develop deep relationships with a variety of community members. As a passionate advocate for the arts and a dedicated member of the Fort Collins community, I am eager to use my skills to contribute to our already vibrant, inclusive cultural scene.
With a deep love for creative expression, I am honored to be a part of this Fort Collins institution. I have lived in Fort Collins for many years and studied fine arts at Colorado State University and the University of Auckland. I truly appreciate the unique blend of creativity and community engagement that defines this city. I look forward to leveraging my enthusiasm and experience to support the continued success of the Museum of Art Fort Collins through my role as Development Manager.
Stan Scott
Exhibitions and Facility Manager
Stan Scott joins the Museum of Art Fort Collins as the newest member of their exhibition team. Stan first came to Fort Collins to pursue an MFA at CSU in printmaking and his journey has taken him from the art world to social work and community building. Stan has installed exhibits in galleries and museums throughout Northern Colorado for nearly twenty years. His favorite part of the job is working with artists to elevate their work and foster connection.
Josie Taylor
MoA for All Manager
Josie was born and raised in the deep south and graduated from Mississippi College with a B.S. in Biology and English Literature. During college, she worked as a wrangler in the mountains outside of Fort Collins and fell in love with the city. As MoA For All Manager, Josie strategizes and oversees the Museum’s community engagement and educational initiatives, creating programming for diverse audiences that centers on making art accessible to everyone. She develops strategic partnerships with local organizations and designs educational experiences that meet community members where they are, consistently working to remove traditional barriers to museum participation and fulfill the Museum’s mission of connecting art, artists, and community through inclusive, welcoming programming.
lesly alvarez-rivera
Membership & Operations Coordinator
Lesly was born and raised in Greeley, Colorado up until her move to Fort Collins where she attended school at Colorado State University as a fine arts major. She has a passion for fiber artwork within the arts with interests in weaving, dyeing with natural and fiber reactive dye, and embroidery. Outside of the art world her favorite curiosities are trying different cultures of food and learning about events throughout all of the years in history.
Necklace by Gary Hixon Designs.
ANNA DE SOTO
Community Engagement Coordinator
Originally from the DC area, Anna is an Art History major at CSU whose main focus is fiber arts. Some of her favorite artists are Erin M. Riley, Allyson Mitchell, and Vincent Van Gogh. She loves traveling around but loves Scotland the most. In her free time, you can find her skiing the slopes, in the climbing gym, or on her mountain bike falling on one of the many trails around town. She is a dedicated mom to her dog, Dakota.