The Red Trillium Mission

The Red Trillium Gallery is a cooperative-style gallery committed to fulfilling the needs of fine art patrons locally, regionally and world-wide by facilitating their interface with Northwest Oregon artists; furthering educational and promotional interests of area artists and supporting educational and the professional goals of local and regional art organizations.

History and Future

Red Trillium Gallery like all great things, was born out of necessity. Caryn Tilton, the founder of the online gallery Mt Hood Art Online site came up with the idea when taking a class by Beth Verheyden, the previous president of the Watercolor Society of Oregon. She discovered many of her fellow classmates were fantastic artists but they all needed a little help marketing their work online. Caryn used her years as an entrepreneur and her expertise as a website developer to build an online gallery for her and her fellow artists to show and sell their work. 

Fast-forward to 2017, Caryn found herself running a thriving website with 20+ artists while also trying to keep up with her large family, newly retired husband, and caring for her mother.  She was ready to retire and made it known in the community that she was looking for someone to take over and continue to grow it.

In 2018 Colleen Chesbrough rebuilt and rebranded the existing site. Following her dreams to one day own a gallery, Colleen gladly accepted the opportunity to take over Mt Hood Art Online. 

With a strong foundation already built it didn't take long for Colleen and her webmaster to update the website bringing it into the e-commerce world of sales. The site is capable of featuring a larger number of artists, taking all payment types, and offering print on demand (POD) prints of artists work in a variety of styles and prices.  These changes have taken the gallery out of the small-town market and placed it on the same level as the major online marketplaces. 

Red Trillium Gallery and Learning Center was the mission and vision of the board for Mt Hood Art Online and a few other members of the art community.  The search for a physical space started in early 2019.  After countless hours of viewing locations and planning a space was chosen in late 2019.  December 6th the doors were opened and now the gallery is open for business.