Article date: Monday, September 15, 2014
Interview with Fred and Laura Bidwell, founders of Bidwell Foundation and The Transformer Station Museum
For more than 20 years Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell have been gathering an extensive collection of contemporary photography. When the Bidwell Foundation made a decision to acquire the Transformer Station (built in 1924), restore and expand it with a contemporary addition to make a new space for contemporary art in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) it might have seemed an unmanageable task for anyone, but not for the Bidwells.