Roger Rowley

Roger Rowley, Prichard Art Gallery Director, has been a member of the Moscow community since February 2001. He has nearly 20 years experience in not-for-profit gallery and museum work. He received his BFA from the University of Colorado and MFA from Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. He worked for the VSW Exhibitions Program throughout grad school fabricating and installing exhibitions, and running the VSW Traveling Exhibition Service. He eventually became VSW Exhibitions Program Coordinator, also teaching in their graduate program. In 2001, he joined the Museum of Art at Washington State University as Curator of Exhibitions/Collections Manager. While there, he rediscovered two works in the collection made of natural rubber by Eva Hesse that were thought to have been destroyed. He became director of the Prichard Art Gallery in October 2004. Since that time the gallery has seen an average annual increase of 10% in attendance and gifts.