Bellevue Arts Museum elects two new board members

The Bellevue Arts Museum on Thursday announced the election of long-term docent Frances Taylor and Microsoft executive Kevin Gammill to its Board of Trustees. The Board is now comprised of 28 members with a mix of business leaders, community volunteers and artists.

Taylor has been a docent with Bellevue Arts Museum for 10 years and was previously a docent at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Cuneo Museum in Libertyville, Ill., and the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va. She organized and led a districtwide elementary and middle school art awareness program in Gurnee, Ill.

Taylor also served as the artist liaison for two public art projects in Bellevue as a member of Act One Guild for PACE.

Gammill manages a multidisciplinary team in the Entertainment and Devices Group at Microsoft. After an extended internship at Microsoft while he was attending the University of Washington, he started full time in 1990 as the Development Lead for what would become the award-winning Microsoft Encarta.

After shipping the first three versions of Encarta, Gammill held a number of positions at Microsoft with the last being Product Unit Manager of the Digital Imaging Group.

He left Microsoft in 1999 in order to move to Pittsburgh to support his wife's career in medicine. In Pittsburgh, Gammill took the position of Vice President of Development for Carnegie Learning, a startup educational software company based on research developed at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2006, his family moved back to the Seattle area where he returned to Microsoft.

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