Board of Directors
Art FORM’s Governing Board is a group of dedicated volunteers
Joan Inlow
President and Volunteer
Joan is a recently retired Engineering Executive who has a passion for both STEM and arts education. During her career, she led projects in wind energy and aerospace while her spare time was dedicated to family, home art projects and community volunteer work. Joan has served as an officer in both professional and volunteer organizations and brings that experience to the Art FORM board. She is enthusiastic about the Art FORM objectives of environmental stewardship, material reuse and collaboration with schools in the Normal Heights and University Heights community.
Catherine George Hagan
Secretary and Volunteer
Catherine is a long-time resident of the Kensington-Normal Heights area of San Diego. She is fortunate her teenage daughter, who is particularly passionate for art, has been able to participate in Art FORM/Rare Hare workshops for many years. As an attorney with the State Water Resources Control Board, Catherine advises the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board in its regulatory efforts to protect and restore the quality of waters in the San Diego Region. Through her work and outside interests, Catherine is familiar with many of the environmental challenges facing the region and beyond. She is excited to be able to support Art FORM as an organization that, among its many focuses, promotes environmental education through art.
Catherine Morrison
Interim Treasurer and Volunteer
Catherine is an attorney with San Diego’s City Attorneys’ Office, with an interest in nonprofit formation and development. Also, with two artistic college age daughters, she is very interested in and aware of cultivating the arts while being environmentally responsible and conscious. Art FORM is the perfect blend of these two facets of her world.
Erin Pennell
Board Member
Erin works closely with fellow board members, community partners, teachers, foundations, and donors to achieve Art FORM’s mission of providing art education and environmental stewardship emphasizing program delivery to schools and communities near the Adams Avenue corridor. Native to San Diego, Erin’s first teaching job was with Outdoor Education at Camp Cuyamaca where she first worked with recycled materials and found objects. With over 25 years teaching art in California, ten of those years facilitating program development and nonprofit education in San Diego, Erin continues to pioneer innovative, captivating projects for local students and the community. Erin celebrates Art FORM’s 10th year of providing this unique art form.
Deanna Sampson
Board Member and Volunteer
Deanna has been involved with Art FORM since the beginning, with her family being helpful founding members. Deanna’s daughter’s girl scout troop worked with Erin in 1st grade, and now her daughter has graduated from college, proving many years of dedication. Deanna works as a fundraiser, bookkeeper, and technology/social media specialist. She has volunteered hundreds of hours for local nonprofits such as MADCAPS, TVIA, Girl Scouts and Francis Parker School.
Doug Moore
Board Member
Doug is currently creative director and principal at dmoorecreative, a full-service marketing group. He has an extensive and diverse background of client experiences and marketing successes both as an independent creative and with various San Diego agencies. His work has involved developing strategic directions and conceptualizing creative solutions for a variety of clients in an array of industries, among them: high tech, sports, entertainment/hospitality, retail, gaming and financial. Responsibilities have included creative/art direction, design, and production in an array of mediums, from television and print to billboards and digital. A long-time resident of the Kensington-Normal Heights community, Doug looks forward to bringing his experience to the efforts of Art FORM and to helping further their goals.
Karen Jimenez
Board Member and Volunteer
Karen is an artist and long-time resident of Kensington. With degrees in Fine Arts from East Texas State University and Carnegie Mellon University, Karen brings years of experience in illustration, ceramics, and jewelry design. Karen has served on Parent’s Association Boards at Kensington Preschool and Warren Walker School and has volunteered with the Parent’s Association at Francis Parker School and the San Diego Humane Society’s PAWS food pantry division. Karen’s introduction to Art FORM was through volunteering to cut out shapes for the Pantin activity kits created by Art FORM’s founder Erin Pennell to bring art and nature to the classrooms. Karen is thrilled to support Art FORM and its mission to promote environmental education through the world of art and recycled materials.