Hallie Ford Fellows
Founder Hallie E. Ford was an artist and visual arts advocate.
Hallie Ford Fellowships in the Visual Arts honor the legacy of the late Hallie E. Ford, co-founder of The Ford Family Foundation, who had a lifelong interest in supporting the visual arts. The Foundation awards up to three $35,000 unrestricted fellowships to Oregon visual artists who have demonstrated a depth of sophisticated practice and potential for significant future accomplishment.
Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts 2025
1905 Legacy Awardee, Lillian Pitt. / Photo: Sam Gehrke
1905 Legacy Awardee
Our inaugural awardee of the 1905 Legacy Award is Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco, Yakama). Pitt teaches that traditional art is not motif; it is responsibility. And her achievement is not simply that she has made powerful objects, but that she has insisted on an art world ample enough to hold Indigenous time: not as distant preface, but as ongoing present.
