A model for
other towns using art
to revitalize the downtown, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts is a multi-use art space with galleries,
gift shop and artist
studios creating a hub of artistic activity.
She championed the presentation of many groundbreaking exhibitions and secured major collection
gifts, including the Haub Family Collection of Western American art; 30 masterworks from the 1790s
to the present by Charles Bird King, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Georgia O'Keeffe and
others; and the Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection comprising 225 works including American
studio glass featuring Pilchuck Glass School artists such as Dale Chihuly, Ginny Ruffner and Therman Statom, as well as artworks by Northwest artists such as Morris Graves and Deborah Butterfield.