President,
Interim Executive Director
Architect, Software Developer, Musician, Artist, Publisher

Ray served as Board Member, President, Treasurer, and Publisher at Seattle's non-profit Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) from 2007-2022, and in 2023 stepped in to revive the organization after the Board had voted to shut it down.

In 2019, Ray received CoCA’s first and only “Founders’ Award” for Exceptional Volunteerism in recognition of his years of remuneration-free service. His most satisfying and lasting accomplishment was the publication of fifty catalogs and books through the organization.

Ray C. Freeman III is an architect, artist, entrepreneur, and musician, and has pursued these endeavors simultaneously since graduating from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) with a Master in Architecture degree in 1982. He lives in the Stargate Residence with his wife, Amy.

In that time, he as run several business, including WORKSHOP 3D, CyberToys, Architects on Line, and WORKSHOP 3D again, this time as an Augmented Reality Studio. He is the bass player for The Jaydogs.

Curatorial Director
Curator, Arts Administrator
Gallery Associate at Foster/White

A lifelong fascination with fieldwork and exploring disciplinary boundaries continues to inform my sprawling practice as a scholar-artist-curator. After MFA and PhD degrees from UW, I worked an an archaeologist for a few years until two Fulbright grants enabled me to teach in Poland and Hungary, then aboard the ship “SS Universe Explorer,” for Semester at Sea, and at Cornish College of the Arts, 1999-2006. After curating for CoCA from 2005-2015, I found work at Museum of Glass in Tacoma for two years before living in Hong Kong in 2014. Returning to Seattle yet again, I coordinated Shoreline’s Public Art Program 2015-2022. I continue to write and publish poems, make paintings and sculpture, curate, freedive, and build arts communities for all.

Vice President, Board of Directors
Artist, Curator, Fashionista
ARTCAR Promoter

I've had an exciting life, growing up all over the world thanks to a father in the International division of 3M company. I continue to travel regularly, and have been in charge of 5 International art delegations in the last 5 years, forging alliances in China, Eastern Europe, Cuba, and the last was to South Africa for the Cape Town Art Fair. Next up, Croatia....

I'm a 2D artist & curator, I paint in oils, acrylic and watercolors (and taught drawing for 20 years at Bellevue College); from to-scale trompe L'oeil to giant murals, with a number of different 'styles' and media, but all are based on representational art steeped in classical training. Humour is as important as the technique: laughter is universal (especially in this time of political upheaval, it’s medicinal)!

Chair, Board of Directors
Artist, Activist and Educator


Since learning Photoshop v. 1.5, Peter has been interested in connecting under-represented communities with digital tools so their voices may be broadcast. He has been involved with large scale video projections, documentary films, animations, guerrilla art actions, and community building since the 90s.
Peter Bill's award winning paint and video landscapes have shown in such diverse venues as The Kitchen(NYC), the Henry Art Gallery(Seattle), FILE Festival(São Paulo, Brazil), and other international venues. He continues in his Oil paintings and video work to weave the painterly with the digital, pixels and paint, indigo and 191970 blue. He envisioned and realized the first time-lapse film festival in North America, the Gila Timelapse Film Festival and has curated and directed shows on three continents. "Art must be realized on the streets, as an agent of change and progress."

Vice-Chair, Board of Directors
Contemporary, Conceptual Artist
Putoh Performance Artist

Xavier Lopez is a Latinx, contemporary, conceptual artist, who received his MFA from the University of California, Davis where he created the theoretical/artistic thesis of the "Soft Cyborg” and alongside Cuban Butoh artist, Katherine Adamenko, formed the performance artform dubbed “Putoh.” As a Latinofuturist he is part of a young group of artists who are seeking to move beyond genre, mixing sculpture, performance, theory, painting, and anything else they can get their hands on to create something exciting and new. He is part of a new breed of Latinx artists for whom artmaking, while still personal and autobiographical in the broadest sense, eschews the obvious tropes of masculinity, hegemony, and race with very little regard for the overbearing cultural history that has proven to be overpowering for so many artists of this age.

Board of Directors
Events Specialist, Exhibit Installer, Art Collector

Reo Hornibrook is a long time art collector and lover of museums worldwide. Reo enjoys many mediums of art including paintings, glass media, sculptural, and performance art. Reo has traveled around the world visiting museums in every city he goes. Reo worked in the theater industry for over 10 years and has worked in the exhibit industry for over 6 years in museum, exhibition, and experiential settings. Reo’s production capabilities range from live production to construction and everything in between. Reo has nearly 2 decades of experience producing events from small to large with various degrees of involvement including managing large productions. Reo would like to see more interest in art from the average consumer in order to increase the art world and amount of original art available to the masses. Reo envisions a world where inquisitive art is commonplace everywhere you go throughout your day.

Secretary, Board of Directors
Artist, Traveler

Being a newcomer, I’m learning and appreciating CoCA’s rich past and its role and purpose today. To me, its role feels both fixed and fluid. I have witnessed that it has strong, deep-rooted underlying values of community and connection. This is demonstrated by the commitment of its current leadership to a world that considers all people. Yet, I have also felt its fluidity: CoCA feels interwoven with the ever-expanding fabric of the community it is comprised of, constantly evolving in tandem with the community’s evolution. CoCA feels to me like a gallery for the people. This is an institution that showcases common, shared human experiences, and equally disseminates unique and diverse experiences that are crucial to learn in order to understand one another in a community. Part of strong communities is members being visible to one another and being understood by one another. Another part of community is connecting members and bridging divides, especially in our world today which languishes in division. “Contemporary” means now. I feel that CoCA exists to share art that reflects our realities today. It is a place to learn, discuss, collectivize, mobilize and unify for a better world. It is a place to celebrate what we are going through, and what another is going through. This is not only the Center on Contemporary Art, but also a hub for folks to come center on contemporary art. CoCA provides a nucleic space where conversations can begin.

Board of Directors
Artist, Organizer

Bollenbach sees his approach towards painting as a parallel to the senses forming human consciousness: “Think of someone you were very close to ten years ago. What do you actually recall? It’s not a still image…what you experience is a more like a lava lamp of different senses: sound, scent, color, glimpses and memories of intense but uncertain emotions – fluid, eternally transforming, winking in and out of being. Even when we are in the same room, the reality of how we are to others, and they to us, is terribly fragile.”

Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska in 1964, Jamie Bollenbach began painting professionally in San Francisco and Oakland. He attended Reed College, and achieved an MFA in Studio Arts in Painting from the University of Washington in 2002, where he began intricate, highly spatial abstracts based on the human figure. He founded a studio-gallery in Portland, Oregon, has taught painting, drawing, and design at the University of Washington School Of Art, the Northwest College of Art, Highline Community College and other colleges over the last 20 years. He has lectured on his work and approaches to creative practice at North Seattle College, EMC Corporation, Univ. of Alaska, Evergreen State College, Microsoft, Meta, and the University of Washington, and intensive classes with the Frye Art Museum’s Studio Program, and has developed full programs of open to the public private drawing and painting classes in Seattle.

Bollenbach’s paintings have hung in galleries and private collections nationally and internationally, and he has exhibited throughout the West Coast including the solo show “The Amplitude of Time” at NOMA gallery in San Francisco, the 2015 show “We Will Never Not Have Been” at Stanford University Art Spaces, the Seattle Art Museum Gallery, and SF MOMA’s artist gallery. An original artist at Building C studios, he has worked here in Ballard since 2003.

Board of Directors
Social Media Communications
Artist, Pianist

Having been an artist member of CoCA since 2004, I am thrilled to join the board in 2024. The success of this organization to maintain a “tradition” of Contemporary Art during the throes of history is impressive. To be current and relevant is very different from being stable and consistent. CoCA has managed both for 44 years and counting. I look forward to participating with and contributing to this organization as a board member as well as continue my historical input as an artist and volunteer. – Being a Contemporary Artist I appreciate the mission of CoCA to present cutting edge work and daring exhibitions that provoke our hearts and minds into inspired realms which we especially need as we head into this 21st century with its massive and quantitative challenges confronting our city and our world. – I’m an idealist and despite the fact that my art slogan is “I paint God’s mistake” I truly believe that humanity is on the verge of something wonderful and powerful yet tumultuous and risky. CoCA is set to be part of this new world where artists help give humanity visions for the future.