The Reach is located at Columbia Point South in Richland, Washington. For centuries people have gathered at Columbia Point…drawn by the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia rivers. The location of The Reach at Columbia Point symbolizes not only the coming together of water but of diverse communities, cultures, species, and viewpoints. The Reach is not meant to be only a building, but a Northwest institution that will endure and have a lasting impact on generations of citizens. Its purpose is to provide a place where our children and grandchildren can learn about and celebrate our big land, big rivers, and big ideas that shaped our history and will shape our future.
Reach Timeline
Creating a regional interpretive center from scratch requires
innumerable tasks, teams of individuals and, of course, a lot of money.
Take a look at what The Reach has accomplished since the idea for creating
an interpretive center in the Tri-Cities first surfaced in June 2000. Stay
tuned as we raise money, begin developing the infrastructure at Columbia
Point South, and build the facility.
Roll your mouse over timeline to activate. Months highlighted in orange
detail completed or projected milestones. Scroll to the right to review
accomplishments and plans leading up to our grand opening in 2010.
Kimberly Camp Biography
Kimberly Camp joined the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center as its Chief Executive Officer in September of 2007. Previously, Camp served as the first president and chief executive officer of The Barnes Foundation from 1998 to 2005. The Foundation's legendary collection of approximately 9,000 objects includes the largest collection in the world of Renoir and Cezanne as well as archives, an herbarium, over 2,500 botanical species, and 12 buildings on 150 acres of land. The Foundation's educational program includes a multi-year track in art, aesthetics, and horticulture, employing The Foundation's galleries, 12-acre arboretum and its Chester county campus, Ker-feal.
Prior to her position at The Barnes Foundation, Ms. Camp was President of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (CHWMAAH) in Detroit, Michigan. There, she presiding over the museum through its organizational transition, facility construction and completion; and official opening of the museum, as well as development of museum policies and procedures, infrastructure, programming and exhibitions. She was extremely successful in growing the museum from a community-based to a world class institution, quadrupling its facility, staff, budget and audience in four years.
From 1989-1994, Ms. Camp was the Director of The Experimental Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., an initiative of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Museums. Prior to that position, she was a Program Director for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, providing leadership in the operation and management of grants programs for educational institutions and non-profit arts organizations.
An artist in her own right, Ms. Camp has been the honored recipient of numerous art and business awards including two National Endowments for the Arts Fellowships, the Kellogg National Leadership Program Fellowship, Visiting Scholar for Tokyo Gedai University and The Spirit of Detroit. Ms. Camp has served as an expert panelist for colleges, councils and organizations her and abroad. She has lectured internationally at seminars and conferences on the importance of diversity, culture in society and various museum topics.
Born in Camden, New Jersey, Ms. Camp graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts and Art History. She received her Master of Science degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
