About Tempra
Tempra Board is a visual artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and grant writer. She is the editor, designer, and publisher of Mark Makers' Quarterly, a journal of rural California art and artists, as well as editor and designer for Soundings, the quarterly magazine of The Sea Ranch Association's members.
She has curated major art exhibits at the Gualala Arts Center, including the annual Salon and Salon des Refuses and Birds on the Brain open call. Founded in 2026 she is co-owner of the Grey Whale Gallery with artist Kathleen Alexander, located on The Sea Ranch, CA.
Tempra is a self-taught artist, though has taken courses in botanical illustration from the New York Botanical Gardens, and has taken one-on-one and group workshops from oil painter Rachel Schlueter, collage artist Sandy Oppenheimer, watercolorist Kathleen Alexander, and several others.
Tempra holds a Master's degree in Communication Development from Colorado State University and a Bachelor's degree in English from Humboldt State University. Tempra has 25 years of resource development experience, including as Development Director of small and mid-sized nonprofits.
For nonprofits, she specializes in grant proposal writing and management, and publication design. For more about how she became a grant writer, and tips for other former English majors about a career in grant writing, see her article for the Haberdasher online writing journal, here.
Tempra never tires of exploring and documenting the natural world and its human and animal inhabitants. She lives in The Sea Ranch, California with her husband, portrait photographer and ceramicist, David Yager, and their manic cat. When not making art, she can often be found on a beach, forest trail, or tennis court.
Tempra is on the Board of Directors of the North Coast Artists Guild and The Sea Ranch Foundation.