The future Rothko Pavilion, for which $5 million of Arlene Schnitzer's $10 gift is earmarked. Design is by Portland's Hennebery Eddy Architects and Chicago-based Vinci Hamp Architects. Note the city-mandated easement that allows bikes and pedestrians to pass through the space.
The future Rothko Pavilion, for which $5 million of Arlene Schnitzer's $10 gift is earmarked. Design is by Portland's Hennebery Eddy Architects and Chicago-based Vinci Hamp Architects. Note the city-mandated easement that allows bikes and pedestrians to pass through the space.
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Portland Art Museum director Brian Ferriso and Arlene Schnitzer. She kept the museum solvent during the Great Recession, he said.
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Jordan Schnitzer and his mother Arlene Schnitzer. At age 91 she wants to see the Rothko Pavilion built in her lifetime.
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Arlene Schnitzer. Her name is on the concert hall but her son Jordan says visual art is the love of her life, above music.
Arlene Schnitzer is giving the Portland Art Museum another $10 million. It's the largest personal donation to the museum in its history and one of the largest to any Oregon arts organization.
Schnitzer, who with her late husband, Harold, has her name on multiple arts venues across the state, is donating the money for the museum as the lead gift in the Museum's ongoing Connection Campaign. The campaign is raising money to build the Rothko Pavilion and grow the museum's endowment in support of access, exhibitions and programs. This glass box entrance Rothko Pavilion will connect the museum's two main buildings, giving it a post-modern look and reducing the need to use the tunnel between them. Groundbreaking on the pavilion is expected next year.