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Cooley Gallery Wins a Ford Family Foundation Facilities Grant

By Kevin Myers on April 25, 2014 02:04 PM
Against the Current from the Print Collection

Against the Current (1935) Luo Qingzhen

The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery has been awarded a Ford Family Foundation Facilities Grant to create a functional print and drawings study room for use by Reed College faculty, students, and the regional community.

Reed’s prints and drawings collection currently resides in a room created in 1989 during the Hauser Library renovation, which included the construction of the Cooley Gallery. The grant will assist in replacing non-toxic wooden shelving with metal flat files, furniture, and upright bin-racks. This, in turn, will allow for careful handling of the objects in the collection by visitors.

The renovation will coincide with the anticipated completion of a digital inventory of the gallery’s works, created using museum-standard management software. Combining the digital search capability with the new more user-friendly storage will bring vitality to the collection for all those who interact with it.

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