8 Oregon arts institutions to receive $69,342

Eight Oregon arts organizations will receive $69,342 in funds from The Ford Family Foundation’s Art Acquisition Program, the Oregon Arts Commission announced.

The Art Acquisition Fund, managed by the Arts Commission, helps visual arts institutions with publicly accessible collections acquire works by Oregon visual artists. The effort preserves public access to works of art and supports artists and the institutions that sustain their work.

Awards were made to:

• Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay ($8,000 ), for the purchase of “Drift: Driftwood 4,” oil on canvas, by Michael Brophy, an artist recognized for his large dramatic Northwest landscapes. The painting is the first by Brophy to join the museum’s collection, which is focused on Pacific Northwest culture.

• High Desert Museum, Bend ($7,142), for the purchase of a group of four Wasco twined baskets by NEA and Arts Commission Fellow Pat Courtney Gold. The museum will use this grouping to demonstrate both traditional and contemporary patterns and techniques.

• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene ($9,900), for the purchase of Christine Bourdette’s chrome-plated wood and resin sculpture “Identification,” and Cynthia Lahti’s “White Belt,” ceramic, paper, wood and steel.

• Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland ($11,000), for the purchase of “Transference,” a kinetic glass and sound installation by glass artist Andy Paiko and sound artist Ethan Rose. “Transference” was commissioned specifically for the museum, and has been exhibited twice at MoCC.

• Oregon State University, Art About Agriculture Collection, Corvallis ($5,000), for the purchase of “From Pike Place Market,” acrylic on canvas by Phyllis Yes and “Blacklock I,”acrylic and Jory Soil by Jay Stratton Noller.

• Portland Art Museum, Portland ($8,800), for the purchase of “Beside the land of Chaldea...” gouache and graphite on tea-stained paper by Ellen Lesperance, who has been recently recognized with a Hallie Ford Fellowship, Betty Bowen Award and is a 2014 Arts Commission Fellow.

• Reed College, Portland ($16,400), for the purchase of “Chromosome Paintings,” by Geraldine Ondrizek, a series of 23 silk panels with jacquard dye and dye sublimation.

• Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland ($3,100 ), for the purchase of “Untitled (Body)” and “Untitled (A Shard of Glass)” by artist Evan La Londe.

— Victor Panichkul