(Update: Adding video, comments from museum, foundation officials)
Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation s gift to fund art gallery, expanded capacity
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) The Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation is awarding $6 million to the High Desert Museum, the largest single donation in the museum’s nearly 40-year history, the museum announced Thursday.
“The museum is coming up on our 40
th anniversary next year, and this gift is really ready to launch us for the next 40 years,” said Dana Whitelaw, Ph.D, the museum s executive director.
Officials said in the announcement that the gift will support the long-term vision for the future of the museum, which includes more capacity for educational programming, immersive experiences, and in collaboration with Tribal partners, an update of the Museum’s permanent exhibition on the past and present of the Indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau,
February 18 – April 24, 2021
Print Study Center
Exhibition Part I: February 18 - April 24, 2021
Exhibition Part II: tentatively scheduled May 8 - August 14, 2021
Organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in partnership with the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA), and curated by anthropology professor and curator of Native American art Rebecca Dobkins, this two-part exhibition features a selection of contemporary prints created by Native and non-Native artists at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Reservation in northeastern Oregon. Founded by native painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla) in 1992, CSIA seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for native artists to utilize their art as a vehicle for economic development.