- Art Advisement
- Private Collection Management
- Museum & Nonprofit Development
- Art Collector & Museum Patron Tours
Consulting for private individuals and corporations. Acquisitions, appraisals, and collection management. For more information, contact Dena Rigby.
Past and Current Fine Art Tour Clients- Art Institute of Chicago
- Chrysler Museum of Art
- Friends of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Glass Alliance of Los Angeles
- Glass Art Society
- Long Beach Museum of Art
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
- Orange County Museum of Art
- Orlando Museum of Art
- Pilchuck Glass School
- Toledo Art Museum
Company History
Dena Rigby Fine Arts was founded in 1998. Owner, Dena Rigby, has worked with the Pacific Northwest's most talented artists and art professionals since 1995.
Besides founding this company, her experience ranges from gallery and artist management, art gallery ownership, to leading high level art patron tours nationally.
In 1995 she began working for Foster/White Gallery, eventually managing the main gallery space. Foster/White, one of Seattle's oldest and most renowned galleries, was the first to represent glass masters such as Dale Chihuly, and had a specific focus on the Northwest Masters including Mark Tobey, James Washington, and Morris Graves.
While the experience at Foster/White proved invaluable, Dena felt she could make greater contributions to the art community by working directly with artists to connect them with fine-art galleries internationally. In 1998 Dena left the gallery to provide management services to some of the most prolific and gifted artists in the country.
Recognizing a lack of representation for museum quality sculptural glass in Sourthern California, Dena founded D&A Fine Arts with partner Anne Cohen in 2005. From January 2005 until January 2008 Rigby and Cohen ran D&A Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Dena split her time between Los Angeles and Seattle, and was deeply involved in the art communities of both cities. While in Los Angeles Dena served on the contemporaries Board of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, as an Education Co-Chair.
At the beginning of 2008, after deciding to refocus her energies in Seattle, Dena moved back to the Northwest, devoting her time to Dena Rigby Fine Arts. Dena still maintains contacts in Los Angeles and travels to California regularly.
Dena has acted as a consultant to the Pilchuck Glass School for their annual Gala Auction Tours for the past eleven years. Additionally, she has coordinated and led tours for the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Garfield Park Conservatory (IL), Glass Alliance of Los Angeles (CA), the Glass Art Society (WA), the Long Beach Museum of Art (CA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Orange County Museum of Art (CA), and the Orlando Museum of Art (FL).
For the past two years Dena has sat on the contemporaries Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She is currently on the Steering Committee for the Henry Art Gallery contemporaries and is a Board member of Seattle's The Service Board.Dena earned a degree in fine arts history from the University of Florida.
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Dena Rigby, founder