PHOTOGRAPH BY BOISE ARTIST
ACCEPTED BY MDA ART COLLECTION
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"Prairie Road Homestead" |
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 3, 2003 — A second photograph
by Constance Prater of Boise, Idaho, has been accepted by the Muscular
Dystrophy Association’s Art
Collection. Now in its 12th year, the Collection features artwork
by people from across the country with neuromuscular diseases.
Transporting the viewer back to a simpler time, “Prairie Road
Homestead” depicts a 1903 homestead near Mountain Home, Idaho.
Descendants of the family who lived in the home at that time still farm
nearby.
This is Prater’s second donation to the Art Collection. She is
a longtime photographer and enjoys taking pictures of wildlife and landscapes.
Prater is affected by Duchenne
muscular dystrophy as a manifesting carrier, meaning that she hasn’t
developed the full-blown disease, but she experiences muscle weakness
and has difficulty walking long distances.
“We’re deeply honored to welcome another contribution by
Connie Prater into the permanent MDA Art Collection,” MDA President
& CEO Robert Ross said. “Her contribution to our Collection
will undoubtedly delight all who see it as it travels to galleries and
museums as part of special exhibits of the Collection.”
The new addition by Prater will be displayed at MDA’s national
headquarters in Tucson, Ariz.. The Collection was established in 1992
to focus attention on the achievements of artists with disabilities,
and to emphasize that physical disability is no barrier to creativity.
The permanent Collection comprises more than 300 works by artists aged
2 to 82 and represents all 50 states. Each artist is affected by one
of the neuromuscular diseases in the MDA program.
Selected art from the Collection has been exhibited at the Dallas Museum
of Art; Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center and Forbes Magazine Galleries
in New York; Tucson Museum of Art; Bishop Museum in Honolulu; Chicago
Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center; Fort Lauderdale Museum
of Art; Los Angeles Children’s Museum; JFK Center at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn.; Fresno Metropolitan Museum; Duluth Art
Institute; Capital Children’s Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the
Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn, Mich.
MDA is a voluntary health agency working to defeat more than 40 neuromuscular
diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services,
and far-reaching professional and public health education. MDA maintains
a clinic for Idaho adults and children affected by neuromuscular diseases
at Idaho Elks Rehabilitation Hospital in Boise.
The Association’s programs are funded almost entirely by individual
private contributors.
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