Purchase Prints

Today, DVAF has prints of some of the artwork for sale. The proceeds of these sales and any donations are used to assist in the care of the art. Besides the Art at Draper Elementary, several additional pieces are at other schools, at city hall and in various homes.

You can support the Draper Visual Art Foundation by purchasing high-quality prints of selected works from the collection.

These prints allow you to bring a piece of this historic collection into your home while directly contributing to its preservation and care. Proceeds from print sales help fund restoration efforts, protective measures, and ongoing maintenance of the artwork.

Synopsis of the Creation and Purpose of the Draper Visual Art Foundation

Draper Visual Arts Foundation (DVAF) became a legal entity in 1993. A small group of longtime Draper residents were concerned about the Reid and Wilda Beck Art Collection housed in the school. Some of these paintings were in obvious need of attention. A series of meetings united this group in basic goals:

1. We wanted to provide professional restoration work as quickly as possible in order to avoid further deterioration to these valuable pieces.
2. It was important to make sure that the collection remain in Draper. We knew that some interest had been shown by others in placing the paintings in other facilities. We felt strongly that the entire collection must remain where it had its beginning.
3. We needed to provide for long-term care. We couldn’t settle for a Band-aid approach.
4. We wanted to make this a vibrant, growing collection that would fill a need for both children and adults.

We knew there were many who would be willing to help, so we wrote letters, made telephone calls and enlisted professional advisors.

Attorneys Raeburn Kennard and Clayton Fairbourn gave professional advice. Mr. Kennard made it possible for us to gain recognition as a non-profit foundation. Mr. Fairbourn was the first to give a cash donation and helped us negotiate with the Jordan District Board of Education an agreement to keep the entire collection in Draper. We are grateful for their assistance.

Many former and current residents of Draper gave their dollars to help our goals become a reality.

Dale Jolley, a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the restoration of art, worked long hours to clean, repair canvases, reattach loose paint, and replace acid-based material with non-acid material – anything and everything that needed to be done to make the art collection beautiful, bright and safe.

We moved ahead on the project as funds were donated. We also negotiated with the licensing division of the Norman Rockwell estate for the right to have prints made of the Ichabod Crane painting. This took many months, of course, but we have been able to raise enough money through the sale of prints of the painting to complete the restoration of all of the art pieces as well as the reframing of many of them.

We are grateful to Rachel Day Patience, Vonna Enniss Vawdrey, Irma Enniss Fitzgerald Carliste and Pat Smith for their work a number of years ago. They researched the history of the collection, made an inventory and had an appraisal made. They also repaired or replaced several of the frames.

What is ahead of us at this point in time? We want to focus on encouraging children and adults to enjoy the art we have here and provide opportunities for those who have a talent in art to develop this to the greatest level possible. We also will continue to add other paintings to our collection.

1999 Board Members: Jean Hendrieksen, President: Mary Sjoblom, 1

Ballard, 2nd Vice President; Jan Black, Secretary; Shirley Ballard, Treasurer, Rachel Patience, LeRoy Riska, Elaine Redd, and Kathleen Day. Glen Cannon is Emeritus Board Member.