Staff
Along with a deep personal connection to the Bolinas community, Shaefer brings a wealth of experience leading arts programs and fostering partnerships that support artists, celebrate creativity, and engage diverse audiences.
Shaefer has previously worked with Gray Area for Google, where she led an international program commissioning large-scale art installations. Previously, she led public programming and partnerships at Meta Open Arts. She has also worked with Sites Unseen, producing public art installations and activations in downtown San Francisco, and with Creative Time in New York City, helping to bring groundbreaking public projects to national attention. She is currently a member of the board of directors of Artadia and The Lab.
Lindsay Albert is a curator and arts producer with more than ten years of experience in the San Francisco arts community. She is currently Program Manager at the Bolinas Museum and KADIST, and previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, and Minnesota Street Project, where she served as Director of Programming and Public Engagement. She curated and produced Indira Allegra’s TEXERE: The Shape of Lost as a Tapestry; Leila Weefer: PLAY†PREY: A Gospel; Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture; and the 2022 San Francisco Art Book Fair, and curated Makeshift Memorials and Small Revolutions at KADIST and the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston. Her current exhibition, Natural Fictions, is on view at The Carnegie in Covington, KY, through March 6, 2027, as a Featured Project of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial.
In 2023, she co-founded staircase. Born out of the need for more alternative and affordable art spaces in the Bay Area, the project presents experimental exhibitions and events by female and non-binary artists. Lindsay is drawn to conceptual photography, sculpture, and video art that work materiality, simplicity, and form into something uncanny but poetic.
For several years before joining the staff of Bolinas Museum, Elia Haworth volunteered and curated several exhibitions for the museum. In 1999 the museum director Dolores Richards asked Elia to be her assistant for a month. That was 19 years ago and today she holds the institutional memory of the organization. Elia has worn many hats at the museum including curating more than 100 exhibitions and gathering Bolinas community history. Elia supported herself as an artist in many mediums before joining the staff. Her creativity is inspired by nature and natural history. She has lived in coastal Marin for 47 years.
Asha Kilgallen McGee is a curator and communications coordinator, currently based in the North Bay. She earned her B.A. in Art History from UC Santa Barbara in 2023, where she began to explore the ways contemporary art can hold memory, build community, and speak across disciplines. Constantly inspired by her Bay Area roots, she is committed to highlighting the region’s unique creative legacy by collaborating with both emerging and established artists.
Lauren is the Operations Manager at the Bolinas Museum, a role that draws on her commitment to supporting both developing and established artists. With a background in journalism and an MSLIS, she brings a deep dedication to archival science, preservation, and the stewardship of memory institutions, rooted in her love for the study of memory and the index within art history and contemporary practice.
Lauren also serves as Collection Manager for the KADIST collection. Over the past decade, she has worked with experimental video art archives, including the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Filmform in Stockholm, Sweden. She holds a special appreciation for moving image works as a powerful catalyst for change, allowing us to traverse perspectives outside our own. Lauren is active in the local community, currently serving on the board of the Bolinas Film Festival and as a grants advisor for the Stinson/Bolinas Community Fund.
Livingston “Liv” Stout is the Bolinas Museum’s new Registrar & Collections Manager. With 14 years of experience in museums, private collections, and fine art services, she brings expertise in registration, collections care, and preventive conservation. Her background includes collections and exhibition work with Minnesota Street Project, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, the Henry Art Gallery, and the San Francisco International Airport, along with training in object conservation. Liv holds an MFA from the Memphis College of Art and a BFA in printmaking from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. An illustrator, interdisciplinary artist, and musician, she lives in Point Reyes Station.
Board of Directors
Dr. Marialidia (Mols) Marcotulli is an avid surfer, often seen riding one of her custom single fin displacement boards on a left-breaking wave. She is an advancement entrepreneur, technology advocate, innovator, curator, and art collector. Born in Rome, Italy and raised in Venezuela, she comes from a long heritage of car racers, engineers, architects, and artists. Mols received her Ph.D. 2019, in Community, Liberation and Ecopsychology, with a focus on the human relationship with water.
Lara Deam is an entrepreneur and philanthropist based in Mill Valley and Bolinas. She is the founder of Dwell magazine, a highly influential publication that redefined modern home and architectural design by making it more accessible to a broad audience. Beyond publishing, Deam has been an active supporter of the arts, architecture, and environmental conservation. Today, she is passionate about psychology and promoting the concept of partner acceptance through The Center for Partner Acceptance. Her care for community informs her approach to fostering meaningful connections between art, design, and the public.
Sara is a partner with Sidley Austin LLP, where she heads the Northern California litigation practice and is the global co-leader of the Securities and Shareholder Litigation practice. Sara, her husband, two children, and their dog have been part-time residents of Bolinas and frequent visitors to the Bolinas Museum for over 15 years. She is also on the board of the Legal Aid Society in San Francisco. Sara joined the Bolinas Museum Board in 2014 and serves on the Finance & Governance Committee.
Kim Tully has deep roots in Bolinas as her family has been part of the fabric of this town since the 1890s. Growing up in Marin, Kim would come to Bolinas regularly with her family as well as her grandparents – and she can vividly remember her grandmother telling stories of how she would travel to Bolinas from San Francisco in the 1920s. Over the last 20+ years, Kim has shared her love of Bolinas and what it means to be part of this unique community with her two daughters – and in fact when her daughters were younger, they volunteered at many Bolinas Museum functions! Having worked in the energy industry for more than 15 years in a variety of roles, currently Kim is a global marketing manager. Outside of work and spending time in Bolinas, you can find Kim playing all sorts of racquet sports or walking her Goldendoodle, Ginger.
Born and raised in Marin, Starrs has enjoyed its beauty and its artistic community all her life. Growing up surrounded by artists and creators, she is a passionate art appreciator and collector. At Smith College Starrs studied Art History, along with East Asian studies, before living and working in China in the 1990s. She has traveled the world both for work as a camera assistant on movies and for pleasure, though if you ask her to name her favorite place she is likely to say the Big Mesa, where she and her family have spent as much time as possible for the past ten years.
Starrs loves the Bolinas community, and the museum, particularly the history room, which tells the stories of so many interesting people and times. She is honored to be joining the museum board and to be helping continue the legacy of art in West Marin.
Katie Geminder is a product and design leader with a background in pioneering social media and technology platforms. She has held key leadership roles at Facebook, Apple, and other influential tech companies, shaping user experiences at a global scale. She worked at Zynga, where she played a leadership role in product design and user experience. A resident of Bolinas, with a deep appreciation for innovation and the arts, she brings strategic insight to projects that blend technology, creativity, and social impact.
Renee is a marketing/brand strategist with deep experience in the creative world of advertising and branding. She has over 20 years of experience across a wide variety of industries, including consumer goods, high tech, athletic shoes, and the automotive industry.
Her list of clients includes: Levi Strauss & Company, Google, Invitae, Dell Computers, StubHub, Saturn, Nike, Dreyer’s Ice Cream, Willis Towers Watson, Sutter Home Winery, The Exploratorium, Apex Fitness and Ancestry.com/ The Generations Network Inc.
Renee developed her creative instincts and marketing sensibility through her experience with master brand builders including Hal Riney & Partners, Chiat/Day and Levi Strauss & Company.
Renee returns to the Bolinas Board after many years and is thrilled to join the team. She and her family have a deep love and connection to the community of Bolinas. She can most often be found hiking the trails of West Marin with her dog Dewey.
Eileen has maintained an active role as a volunteer and board member at a variety of organizations in the Bay Area. Her earlier career was spent as a high-yield research analyst in New York City. A move to London, England provided an opportunity to work in the arts where she spent time interning in the Director’s Office at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her experiences at the V&A helped inspire a passion for collecting and enjoying art.
Eileen lives in Marin with her husband and two boys. They love time spent in Bolinas and recognize it as the perfect place to retreat as a family.
Scott Trattner is a creative leader, designer, and advisor known for his work in brand storytelling and digital experiences. As VP of Global Creative at Airbnb, he has played a foundational role in shaping the company’s brand, blending design, technology, and a deeply human approach to storytelling. Before Airbnb, he served as Executive Creative Director at Apple’s advertising agency. Trattner has served on the boards of the San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA, where he earned a BFA in painting and an MFA, respectively. An avid surfer, Scott recently purchased a home in Bolinas, where he has spent time and cultivated relationships since childhood.
Chris Whitefield’s stunningly tight line drawings are informed by his carpentry skills. Rendered entirely by hand, he builds off his first foundation lines —challenged by the tension between line and space and exacting fit. Not allowing for mistakes, Whitefield draws in ink for both his geometric work and the figurative art that he creates as a member of a Bolinas life drawing group. He finds continual interest in exploring new designs for his precise line work. The Achenbach Graphic Arts Collection of the De Young Museum in San Francisco acquired two of his drawings from this series.
Whitefield grew up in Bolinas and returned permanently at the age of 30. In his youth, poet Joanne Kyger encouraged him to create drawings that she reproduced in issues of the local Hearsay News. He studied briefly at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, then focused on lithography and drawing at the Instituto Allende y Bellas Arte in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He later attended the University of New Mexico—but, ultimately, Chris considers himself self-taught in the art that he creates today.
Following a 20 year career in the Fashion Industry, Judy has focused her attention on assisting philanthropic organizations to reach their full potential and serve their community. Judy served on the Board of the Pasadena Art Alliance, for 14 years, recently as President – raising grant money for upcoming artists, exhibitions and institutions in greater Los Angeles. Judy, her husband George and two children are excited to be a part of the Bolinas community. Their appreciation for art and architecture led them to restore and update an historic farmhouse close to town.
Judy is looking forward to supporting the Bolinas Art Museum and continuing to help foster its exceptional reputation.
In Memoriam
JOHN (JACK) WILLIS LADD JR
1940 – 2025
We are deeply saddened to share that long-time Bolinas Museum supporter and Board of Directors member, Jack Ladd (84), passed away in January, surrounded by his wife Adrienne, their son Joseph, and daughters Alexandra and Jessica.
Jack, a life-long learner, led a rich and varied life even before settling in the Bay Area. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in history and later earned an MBA from Stanford University. His career began with Time-Life and Time magazine in New York City, followed by a move to Tokyo, where he managed Time’s Asia circulation desk. In 1975, Jack founded Ladd & Associates, a marketing software and consulting company in San Francisco. He also bought a home overlooking the ocean in Bolinas, where the family spent much of their time.
Jack shared a passion for golf with his wife and son. He served as President of the Presidio Golf Club in San Francisco and could often be found practicing golf strokes from his Bolinas deck. The Ladds were avid travelers and had recently enjoyed a joyful family gathering for a wedding in Europe.
Jack was also deeply committed to his Bolinas community, where he had many friends. In addition to supporting Bolinas Museum and attending nearly every exhibition, he was a long-time member of the Bolinas Rod and Boat Club and served as board chair for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.
Jack will be greatly missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing him.
Read the obituary published in the San Francisco Chronicle.