Upcoming Exhibitions – 2024
Rick Bartow: Animal Kinship
September 20, 2024 – February 9, 2025
Rick Bartow: Animal Kinship, an exhibition from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation by one of Oregon’s most celebrated artists, will open September 20, 2024 at the High Desert Museum. This is the third art exhibition in a yearlong series of collaboration with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation exploring the complex relationships between humans, animals and the world we share. The first was Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species, followed by Near, Far, Gone, which is open now through September 8, 2024.
Artist Rick Bartow (Mad River Band of the Wiyot Tribe, d. 2016) was born in Newport, Oregon, where his family’s roots run deep, and grew up with close ties to the Siletz community. Though he traveled the world extensively in his lifetime, Bartow always returned to his family’s coastal home, and it was here that he eventually became one of the Northwest’s best-known and most celebrated artists. Nearly two dozen artworks, including two-dimensional and sculptural pieces, have been selected for the exhibition. The works span the final three decades of Bartow’s career. Drawing from Indigenous stories and his interests as an amateur naturalist, Bartow moves freely between human and animal representations in his depictions.
Little Kestrel on the Ground, 2013 (cover image)
watercolor and acrylic on panel
11 x 14 in
CS Spegi, 2001 (image, left)
hand colored lithograph with graphite & prisma colored pencil
30 x 22 in
Edition of 14
Printed at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts
20-Dollar Art Show Presented by the Bright Place Gallery
October 14, 2024 – October 21, 2024
20-Dollar Art Show
October 14 – October 21
Bend’s biggest little art show is back! The Museum is once again honored to host the year’s 20- Dollar Art Show, presented by the Bright Place Gallery. Featuring over 4,000 pieces of original art by established and emerging local artists, this year’s show promises to be the biggest yet. As always, each mini masterpiece can be yours for the low, low price of $20.
The 20-Dollar Art Show opening night extravaganza is on October 18 with doors opening at 5:30 pm! Tickets are required to attend opening night and will go one sale in September. Keep an eye out on this webpage or at brightplacegallery.com for updates regarding the release of opening night tickets!
Photo by Robert Davis
The High Desert Museum is always working on announcing additional exhibitions. Check back for updates! If you have questions, email info@highdesertmuseum.org.
