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Over the last five years I have spent considerable time and resources researching, tracking down, purchasing, archiving and framing all the works in the "Drawing on the Susquehanna" collection. As a self-employed artist, this stretched our family finances rather thin, so my plan was to help offset these expenses by putting the collection on tour to museums/university galleries and recoup some of those costs through loan fees. Unfortunately, this plan was somewhat derailed by Covid, which forced the cancellation of three venues and severely cut the budgets at the other venues that eventually did host the exhibit, providing only a fraction of the anticipated loan fees.

 

In order to help offset these expenses, enable me to continue to grow and archive this important collection, and to help cover my consulting time moving forward in developing the museum to house the collection, I have come up with a creative fundraising approach based on creating naming opportunities to dedicate specific works in the collection to a person or persons of the donor's choosing. This dedication will remain with the work in crediting on all museum wall labels, catalogs, publicity, etc.

 

Donations will be facilitated through the Roundtop Trust (more info about the trust on this website here), a private charitable trust established by a group of my patrons 12 years ago to preserve, for posterity and for educational/curatorial use, a collection of my most notable works spanning my career. The scope of the Trust collection has now been expanded to include historic Susquehanna River art, enabling the Trust to acquire all the works from the "Drawing on the Susquehanna" collection. The Roundtop Trust will subsequently, once the museum is established, donate, or place on long term loan, all of these works for permanent display in the museum.

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As a result, as works are transfered from my collection to the Trust, this provides a naming opportunity for donors to dedicate specific key works. Below is a list of available works for naming along with corresponding donation amouts. If desired, multiple donors may join together to name a single work with several names. It should be noted that, although the Rountop Trust is a charitable trust, it is not a 501c3 non-profit, and therefore donations are not tax-deductible.

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Contributions can be made via check (payable to the Roundtop Trust) and sent to:

 

Rob Evans Studio

7152 Roundtop Lane

Wrightsville, PA 17368

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Or you can make a contribution here through Paypal:​​​​​

 

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Also payment can be made through Venmo (you can contact me here for instructions)

 

Please send a notice via the contact form here to notify as to which work is being dedicated and the name(s) desired to be listed or if there are any other questions regarding this exciting project.

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Thank you so much for your support!

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