How to Adopt an Artwork

Here is the step-by-step process of Adopt an Artwork:

  1. Choose the object that you would like to adopt.
  2. Contact Taleah Gipson via email or at 502.634.2745 and tell her which artwork you’ve chosen.
  3. Decide whether you would like to be credited—Anonymous? Your name(s)? In honor of someone?
  4. We will then send you a dossier packet on your selected artwork. This includes the condition report and treatment proposal, color prints of the work in its current “before” state, and relevant background information on the object.
  5. Your adopted artwork will then be sent to a regional conservation laboratory for treatment (unfortunately, we cannot treat artwork on-site). The curator will check in with you with an update on the restoration process.
  6. When the work is complete, you will be sent an invoice along with the treatment report and an offer for a private viewing and photo shoot, if you’d like, with the artwork when it returns to the galleries.
  7. Send your payment for the treatment to Taleah, and we will send you photographs of your cleaned, adopted artwork, along with a formal acknowledgment of your tax-deductible contribution.

If you have questions, please call the Curatorial Department at 502.634.2745, and we’ll be happy to help.