New exhibits scheduled at Moses Lake Museum & Art Center
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William R. Hilderbrand in his Moses Lake photography shop. An exhibit of photographs from Hilderbrand's archive, and from negatives donated by Margaret Schiffner, will be on display at the Moses Lake Museum & Art Center.
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MOSES LAKE — An exhibit of historic photographs of Moses Lake and another exhibit featuring a Quincy artist opened Friday at the Moses Lake Museum & Art Center.
“Moses Lake Coming into Focus: Historic Photographs from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s,” will be on display in the main gallery. It features images from the museum’s William R. Hilderbrand and Margaret Schiffner collections.
The exhibit will be on display through April 23.
Museum manager Dollie Boyd said it’s the first exhibit of the year.
“It’s all about a very optimistic time in this town,” Boyd said.
Hilderbrand came to Moses Lake in the 1950s and opened a camera business and photography studio. He chronicled life in Moses Lake and Grant County for a quarter-century and more.
His negatives were donated to the museum.
Schiffner collected published and unpublished negatives from the Columbia Basin Herald from the 1950s and donated those to the museum, Boyd said.
The museum is sponsoring a youth photography contest in conjunction with the exhibit. Contest entries will be on display from March 12 to April 15.
Admission to the museum is free.
The landscapes of Gaydean Taylor of Quincy will be on display in the community gallery through April 9. Taylor, a retired nurse, is an outdoors enthusiast and said many of her paintings are inspired by the landscapes she has seen on her hikes.
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