IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 16, 2009
Contact: Karen Mobley
Arts Director
City of Spokane Arts Department
(509) 625-6050
Rick Singer’s Spokane Musicians exhibit
donated to Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
The Spokane Arts Commission is pleased to announce that local photographer Rick Singer’s recent Chase Gallery show Spokane Musicians, an exhibition of 182 individual and group portraits involving over 400 Spokane musicians, has been donated to the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture permanent collection.
Singer’s portraits honor Spokane’s incredibly talented musicians in a wide range of genres including classical, rock, folk, country, bluegrass, Irish, swing and vocalists. Spokane virtuosos like Arnie Carruthers, Dennis Carey, and Patrice Munsell share space with contemporary musicians Cary Fly, Joe and Tera Brasch, and Dead Man’s Pants.
Singer’s exhibit Spokane Musicians has been donated to the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture permanent collection through generous donations by the artist and one dozen individual donors.
The MAC’s art curator, Ben Mitchell says, “Rick Singer’s portraits are stunning and full of depth, soul, and insight. This new suite of photographs, together with the earlier gift to the museum of the Spokane Artists and Art Patrons, is an invaluable record of Spokane’s cultural richness created by one of our most gifted photographers.”
Rick Singer has been creating photographs in Spokane for over 25 years and is best known as a superb portrait photographer. Spokane Musicians represents another aspect of his work, showing off his terrific sense of humor and generous spirit, which brings out the best in his subjects. Singer’s previous Chase Gallery exhibit, Spokane Artists and Arts Patrons, was donated to the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture permanent collection in 2007.
For more information about the Chase Gallery visit www.spokanearts.org. To learn more about Rick Singer, you may visit his website.
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