Board of Directors

Llisa Demetrios, President

Llisa Demetrios has spent her adult life caring for the Eames Collection and curating the Eames Ranch, initially alongside her mother, Lucia Eames, and now as Chief Curator alongside the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity team. Before the advent of the Institute, Llisa facilitated the loans for "The World of Charles & Ray Eames" exhibition that started at the Barbican Centre in England in 2015 and continued to Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Michigan, and the Oakland Museum of California in February 2019. 

Llisa also worked in the Mies van der Rohe Archive at MoMA. She is a founding and current member of the Eames Foundation Board of Directors, which oversees the historic Eames House in Los Angeles, and also a shareholder of the Eames Office. A third-generation sculptor, she has been practicing her art for over twenty years. She graduated with a BA in History from Yale University. She is married with two children.


Pat Martin

Pat Martin is a State Certified Massage Therapist, an Eden Energy Medicine practitioner and Yoga teacher, and a devoted art lover. The arts have always been part of her life—both as an avid participant and an appreciative observer and collector. She believes that all art forms have the power to enrich our lives, open our hearts, and benefit our communities.

When she and her late husband John moved to Petaluma in 1996, they both engaged in Sonoma County’s rich artistic environment, taking classes and collecting art.

From early on in her career, Pat has always made time to volunteer in her community: initially she was active in PTA, then later she became president of Rotary Club of Central Marin. She has served on various executive boards and foundations in both Sonoma and Marin counties, and currently volunteers her time teaching Yoga at the Petaluma Village Network. As a member of the board at PAC, she sees her Board service as a fine opportunity to support local artists in new and different ways.


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Travis White, Treasurer

Travis has been a resident of Petaluma for more than 20 years. He has been humbly married to his beautiful bride since 2002 and is a proud father of three children. Two of those children are adults and the third is keeping him young at home while she attends middle school. Also keeping him young is the family English bulldog, Daisy Mae.

Travis’s father was in the military and Travis lived in exotic places growing up such as Guam and less exotic places like Wisconsin and Texas.

After graduating high school, Travis joined the US Army himself and was stationed in both Colorado and Alaska. After leaving the Army in 1992, he moved directly into the field of Finance. He has held many roles in the finance field working primarily for banks but considers his most rewarding work to be his current role as an independent Financial Advisor / Wealth Manager. Travis currently works with Oculus Financial in Petaluma where he happily helps select clients across the country define and realize their financial goals and dreams. Travis is not an artist but recognizes the valuable role the Petaluma Arts Center plays within the community from both a cultural and educational perspective.


Maggie Parr

Maggie Parr has worked as an artist and designer for over thirty years. Her specialty is visual storytelling; focusing on theme park design, murals, book illustration, marketing, graphic novels, and film and television. Primary clients have included Disney and Universal. She also maintains a studio practice in painting, and has exhibited around the country. She received her BA from Pomona College and MFA from Cal State Fullerton. 

Maggie moved with her partner from Los Angeles to Petaluma in early 2021 – primarily to find more time to create, but also to participate in community building around the arts. Her work with corporations, as well as volunteer roles such as the Arts and Entertainment Commission for Los Angeles’ 10th District, have inspired her passion for fostering relationships between businesses and the creative fields. She is excited to be part of the Board of the Petaluma Arts Center, and a new resident of Petaluma.


Lisa Lightman

Lisa Lightman has lived on either coast with some ample time in the southwest. In the mid-to late 80s, she started to take classes at the Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.  Lisa’s move from Boston to Santa Fe, NM in 1996 was a declaration to both exploring the art side of her life and the mysterious southwest landscape.  While in Santa Fe, she settled into a career in the court system that promoted programs that emphasized treatment over incarceration.  Her life was dual focused as an artist and a professional with national recognition.  In 2001, Lisa moved to San Francisco to continue this dual path and in 2019, she opted for small town life in Petaluma to become a full-time artist.  Over the years, Lisa has appeared in numerous exhibitions in Massachusetts, New Mexico, Colorado, and California.

Lisa brings her community outreach, grant writing and program development skills to the PAC Board. Her creative spirit resides in her paintings and in her pursuit of world travel where an annual trip abroad might be defined by a museum show of a favorite artist.


Karleen Arnink-Pate

Karleen Arnink-Pate is the Chief Revenue Officer for Sonoma Media Investments.  Previously she served as the Vice President of Strategic Revenue at the San Francisco Chronicle and sfgate.com/Hearst, and prior to that worked in the Hawaii and Nevada markets as Advertising Director for Gannett Company.

Recognized as an industry leader, Karleen was a national Folio “Top Women in Media” honoree, where she was featured in the Change Maker category as “a woman who has successfully altered the course of their brand or the industry for the better.”  With an innovative and creative approach, she has dedicated her extensive career, to funding local journalism and helping businesses thrive.

Karleen has had a lifelong passion for art, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania with a major concentration in Painting.


Rick Warner

A Marin County native with a background in finance and nearly two decades in residential real estate, Rick Warner offers comprehensive consultative and representational real estate services to buyers and sellers throughout Marin and Sonoma Counties. Specializing in Petaluma, he combines deep market knowledge and a reputation as a fierce negotiator with a low-key client-focused approach that favors listening over talking and facilitating over salesmanship.

A member of the Marin County Bar Association, Rick often works with estate and family law attorneys to facilitate the sale of properties under complex legal and personal circumstances. At the same time, his background as a financial advisor makes him a powerful partner for investors and clients with an eye firmly fixed on the bottom line. With tens of thousands of dollars negotiated on each deal, Rick demonstrates the importance of effective client advocacy every day.


Bill Kane

Bill has lived in Petaluma since 1998 and is co-owner of Digital Grange Fine Art Services.

He is professionally active as a fine artist nationally and internationally. His photographs and mixed media works have been extensively exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia since 1980 in over 20 one-man and 60 group shows. 

His work has also been featured in a number of movies, including Robocop by Paul Verhoeven, The Namesake by Mira Nair, Definitely Maybe by Adam Brooks and Just Wright by Sanaa Hamri.

He was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship twice, in 1980 for Photography and again in 1991 for Painting. Further he was awarded grants from the Eyes and Ears Foundation twice, in 1979 and again in 1984. He is included in the Who's Who of American Art.