Board Members

Holli Wagner is a creative business strategist with a passion for the arts and community. She brings over 15 years of experience in small business ownership, technology, and event planning.

Holli is a local Yamhill County entrepreneur who owns Stay McMinnville LLC and Wagner Advisory Group LLC, and previously co-owned McMinnville Event Center for the Arts (MECA Gallery) with her husband.

As Chief Revenue Officer at WITI, she drives workforce transformation and leadership initiatives. Her 30-year career includes roles at IBM, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and Verizon.

Holli blends creativity and strategy, expressing her passion for the arts through multimedia design, painting, writing, and music videos. She is dedicated to supporting and enriching the local arts community.

 Britt Block is a McMinnville artist with the Art Harvest Studio tour. Her large scale pastel paintings focus on the natural world, sometimes investigating the world through a bee's eyes: What a Bee Sees. She has painted seriously for over 30 years and has had work in galleries as well as private collections. Most recently one of her paintings was the featured work in the 2023 Art About Agriculture touring exhibit.

Britt is also a retired high school theater teacher, and has enjoyed connecting with the Gallery Theater community, most recently directing the farce "See How They Run."

Britt is a meditator and mindfulness instructor with an MFA in Arts and Consciousness. She enjoys Tai Chi and the wild world around and within us.

David is a software architect and business consultant and 12 year resident of Oregon, the last 8 of which he and his wife have spent in McMinnville. David is a literalist and overly logical which can be annoying in conversations but somehow made him the ideal candidate of a small sample size to be the AAYC treasurer, a position he's immensely enjoyed.

David has a degree that he has never really used from the University of Michigan. He does not own any clothing emblazoned with the various branding paraphernalia of said school but has been known to wear hoodies of other institutes of higher education to which he has no tangible affiliation.

When he is not architecting or treasuring David and his wife like to go to music concerts and travel and eat food he could not otherwise find in Yamhill County.

Courtney Terry (she/her) is an Adult Services Librarian at McMinnville Public Library. Since 2013, she has coordinated and hosted a monthly Poetry Night through the Library. She has served on the board for AAYC since 2019, coordinating the Arts Education Grants and Scholarship program. Her experiences funding amazing artistic projects for students across Yamhill County has been one of the many rewarding reasons she loves being part of AAYC. She also loves reading (or listening to) a good sci-fi or fantasy novel and spending time with her many animals.

Courtney lives on the stolen traditional lands of the Yamhill Kalapuya, one of the many bands of Kalapuya people who lived throughout the Willamette Valley. In 1855, The Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc ceded tribal lands to the United States. Members of at least 27 different tribes were forcibly removed to the Grand Ronde Reservation. Today, an estimated 4,000 Kalapuya descendents are members of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Learn more here: www.grandronde.org/history-culture/

Beth has lived and been an active arts volunteer in McMinnville since 1994.  She was the Local Wine Column writer for the News Register for 10 years.  Licensed as a REALTOR in 2001, Beth has served her industry during that time as an organization leader.  

She is an avid knitter and a lover of all things yarn! 

As major supporter and sponsor for the McMinnville Farmers Market, Make Music McMinnville, Art Harvest and other events, she also advocates for all of  the community around her.

Kyle is a Digital Art, Filmmaking and Podcasting teacher at McMinnville High School. He is passionate about teaching the various forms of digital expression that are available. He formerly worked at McMinnville Community Media in downtown McMinnville, supporting local producers to create public access television shows. He directed a short film in 2019 titled "East of a Dream" that was showcased at the McMinnville Short Film Festival. He has edited and worked on other local films.

Kyle loves spending time with his wife Katie and their two cats, Clementine and Olive. In his free time he plays as much chess as he can and studies the great masters of the past. If you come to a McMinnville High School Baseball game, you will hear him on the microphone announcing the game. He has also taken up the growing sport of Disc Golf and frequently travels around the valley to play at new courses with his friends.

Sean Muir is a scientist, educator, and artist whose work explores the deep connections between materials science and creative expression.  Sean’s art and research investigates how materials shape artistic possibilities, from developing new glazes to enhancing sculpting cements and concrete for large-scale installations.  As a board member of AAYC, he is excited to foster connections between science, sustainability, and the arts in Yamhill County.ay something interesting about your business here.

Savanha is a senior undergrad at Linfield University, studying Studio Arts and Visual Studies. Most of the time, Savanha can either be found in her studio, getting really excited about art with her peers, laughing with her roommates, being serious at work, or running art club! While Savanha loves experimenting with all kinds of artistic media, painting and sculpture are her favorite. Through her work, she aims to understand the human experience from life to death; something she is exploring further in her senior capstone!