Liz Borders
President and Chair of the Site and Building Committee
Liz comes to the Broad Strokes Project with a very personal background in public and fine art. Although not an artist herself, she’s married to one. She is able to use her strong connections to contemporary artists and curators to source a wide variety of talent and interest for Broad Strokes projects.
Liz is a real estate agent in Oregon and Southwest Washington. She is also the chair of the Downtown Advisory Committee for the City of Longview, and serves as Cowlitz Co. Director on the board of the Lower Columbia Association of Realtors. Although her roots are in Kentucky, she has been a Pacific Northwesterner for over a decade and graduated from Portland State University with a masters in Sociology.
She currently lives in Rose Valley, Kelso with her husband, son, dogs, cats, goats, and chickens.
Michalyn Steiner
Vice President and Chair of the Fundraising Production Committee
Michalyn Steiner is a Longview native and a choreographer and teaching artist in the Pacific Northwest. She recently produced and acted in the short film FOUND (2021), written and directed by acclaimed director Reena Dutt, filmed locally at the Columbia Theatre. In 2022 she directed The Nutcracker at Higher Ground Dance Studio and in 2023 Mary Poppins. In November 2021 she co-directed and choreographed All Together Now, a global event celebrating local theatre produced in collaboration with Mainstage Theatre and Stageworks Northwest Theatre; she sits on the production team at both theaters. Other recent choreography credits include Private Eyes at Center Stage Theatre at Lower Columbia College, The Hombres at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR, Newsies at Mainstage Theatre, and The Pirates of Penzance at Stageworks Northwest Theatre. She has also been a volunteer performer and choreographer for the Southwest Washington Symphony and the Longview Community Nutcracker. She has formed many relationships in the Longview theatre and performance world. As a member of Broad Strokes, she hopes to connect local artists and curate fundraisers in order to bring awareness and growth to the arts community in downtown Longview. After traveling extensively, Michalyn now resides in Longview bringing her love of art and choreography back to her hometown in hopes it influences young lives as positively as it influenced her own. She feels it is vital to make contributions to the arts in her community as it directly affects the culture where she raises her two children.
Ariel Largé
Past President and Chair of the Networking and Outreach Committee
Longview business owner Ariel Largé has been a lifelong appreciator of art, inspired by color and beauty in her everyday life. She believes art can be found in all things and that it's our job to find it - big or small. Sculptures, architecture, music, eloquent speech, or even the movements of a dancer or an athlete, Ariel sees anything that can inspire or connect people as art. As a founding member of TBSP, she saw an opportunity to enrich her community and highlight the existing beauty and unlimited potential already present in downtown Longview. By making art accessible, Ariel believes we also make our community more accessible.
John Largé
Secretary
Honorary broad John Largé has always made his way by being infinitely useful and a little bit mad. Sharing in the ownership of two local businesses with his wife, Ariel, John has put his attention to detail and his will-do attitude to help bring art to his community. A former thespian, a writer, and a modest collector of classical art pieces in his own right, his appreciation for aesthetics and creative expression has motivated him to aid where he can to bring a sense of culture and inspiration to Longview.
Let’s Work Together
Are you interested in making Longview an art destination? Do you have a building that you’d like painted?
We need artists, building owners, civic minded individuals - it takes a community to make things happen.