Dena Rigby
Dena has worked with the Pacific Northwest's most talented artists and art professionals for the past twelve years. Besides founding D&A Fine Arts, her experience ranges from gallery and artist management 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 reknown galleries, was the first gallery to represent northwest 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 area's art community by working directly with artists to connect artists with fine-art galleries internationally. In 1998 Dena left the gallery to provide management services to some of the most prolific and gifted glass artists in the country, through her art management company, Dena Rigby Fine Arts.
Now residing between Los Angeles and Seattle, Dena continues to be involved in the fine-art community in both cities and sits on the Board of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's contemporaries organization.
Dena has been a consultant to and organized the Pilchuck Glass School's annual Gala Auction's Collectors' Tours for the past eleven years. Additionally, she has coordinated and led tours for The Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Orlando Museum of Art (FL), The Long Beach Museum of Art (CA), The Orange County Museum of Art (CA), The Garfield Park Conservatory (IL), and The Glass Art Society (WA).
Dena earned a degree in fine arts history from the University of Florida.