Janae Huber Bio and Info
Janae is a seasoned administrator, who works in the field of public art. She oversees the care and conservation of the State Art Collection for the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA), where she has been the collections manager since 2005. She is active in the national public art field, presenting at conferences and leading workshops on the care of artworks in public spaces. Prior to her work in the field of public art, Janae was the registrar and collections manager at Tacoma Art Museum and the coordinator for a documentary photography and oral history project at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
She is also the co-founder of Olympians for People-Oriented Places (O-POP), an organization dedicated to making Olympia, Washington a vibrant, well-planned city. Janae advocates for diverse housing, smart land use, and multimodal transportation. Through this work, she has coordinated successful advocacy campaigns, community forums, and positive public discourse on challenging civic issues, including “missing middle” housing and the event series Olympia Design Month. In 2017, she served on the City of Olympia's Downtown Strategy Stakeholders Group. She has been the chair of her neighborhood association and was a two-term Council-appointee to the Olympia Arts Commission. She currently serves as the Board Secretary for the nonprofit organization, Futurewise.
Janae has lived in Olympia since 2000.
