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Nine Central Oregon arts organizations among 181 statewide provided operating support by Oregon Arts Commission

Shamarr Allen and the Underdogs performing at the Sisters Folk Festival.
Tim LaBarge
Shamarr Allen and the Underdogs performing at the Sisters Folk Festival.

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Awards totaling nearly $1.38 million will be distributed to 181 Oregon arts organizations through the Oregon Arts Commission’s Operating Support Program for fiscal year 2025. 

Ranging from $3,300 to $20,000, the unrestricted awards are available to nonprofit arts organizations with annual budgets of more than $150,000. The Arts Commission determines awards based on the number of applications and available grant funds.

“Operating support is crucial to organizations as these funds can be used at their discretion to sustain artistic programming," said Arts Commission Chair Subashini Ganesan-Forbes. “Grant recipients (and their peers) also see this grant as a sign of our trust in their vision, capacity and importance to the Oregon arts ecosystem.” 

There are 25 organizations new to the program this year, as the number of eligible organizations has grown.

FY2025 Operating Support grants by region:

Central

BendFilm, Bend: $8,007

Cascades Theatrical Company, Bend: $3,450 

Central Oregon Symphony Association, Bend: $3,539

High Desert Chamber Music, Bend: $4,110

Scalehouse, Bend: $4,180

SFF Presents, Sisters: $10,964 

Sunriver Music Festival, Sunriver: $4,747 

The High Desert Museum, Bend: $20,000

Tower Theatre Foundation, Inc., Bend: $12,524

Greater Eastern – North

Arts Council of Pendleton, Pendleton: $8,625 

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton: $5,261 

Oregon East Symphony, Inc., Pendleton: $3,887

Greater Eastern – South

Painted Sky Center for the Arts, Canyon City: $4,525

Portland Metro

45th Parallel, Portland: $4,747 

Advance Gender Equity in the Arts, Portland: $4,348

Alberta Abbey Foundation, Portland: $5,957 

All Ages Music Portland, Portland: $7,361

All Classical Public Media, Inc., Portland: $18,234

Architectural Foundation of Oregon, Portland: $8,611

Artichoke Community Music, Portland: $5,175

Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland: $14,433

Arts Action Alliance Foundation, Oregon City: $6,594

A-WOL Dance Collective, Inc., Clackamas: $5,105 

Bag & Baggage Productions, Inc., Hillsboro: $6,489 

BodyVox, Inc., Portland: $11,776 

Boom Arts, Portland: $4,255

Bosco-Milligan Foundation, Portland: $5,250

Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre, Portland: $3,773 

Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Tigard: $13,710

Camp45 Contemporary, Portland: $5,175

Cappella Romana Inc., Portland: $8,366

Cerimon House, Portland: $5,175 

Chamber Music Northwest, Portland: $13,617 

Children's Healing Art Project, Portland: $5,283 

Clackamas Repertory Theatre, Oregon City: $3,885 

CoHo Productions Ltd, Portland: $4,747

Corrib Theatre, Portland: $4,747

Curious Comedy Productions, Portland: $6,451 

CymaSpace, Portland: $5,139

Echo Theater Company, Portland: $5,446 

Film Action Oregon dba Hollywood Theatre, Portland: $13,325 

Friends of Chamber Music, Portland: $8,624 

Gather:Make:Shelter, Portland: $5,750

Hand2Mouth, Portland: $4,747 

Imago the Theatre Mask Ensemble, Portland: $5,113 

In a Landscape, Portland: $6,456 

Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc., Portland: $5,781 

Kickstand Comedy, Portland: $4,823

Lakewood Theatre Company, Lake Oswego: $12,008

Literary Arts Inc., Portland: $20,000 

Live Wire Radio, Portland: $6,865

Lovegood Performing Arts Company, Beaverton: $4,212

Metroarts Inc, Portland: $4,338

MetroEast Community Media, Gresham: $11,720 

Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland: $10,098

Miracle Theatre Group, Portland: $15,788 

Montavilla Jazz Festival, Portland: $4,255

Music Workshop, Portland: $4,747 

My Voice Music, Portland: $6,636

New Expressive Works, Portland: $5,175

North Pole Studio, Portland: $5,072 

Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education, Portland: $9,775

Northwest Children's Theater & School Inc., Portland: $14,194 

Northwest Professional Dance Project, Portland: $8,869 

Old Church Society, Inc., Portland: $8,303

Open Signal, Portland: $19,832 

Oregon Arts Watch, Portland: $4,348

Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland: $17,722 

Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras, Portland: $13,778 

Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland: $8,684 

Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland: $4,956 

Oregon Children's Theatre Company, Portland: $16,522 

Oregon International Ballet Academy, Portland: $5,175

Oregon Repertory Singers, Portland: $5,232 

Oregon Society of Artists, Portland: $4,348

Oregon Symphony Association, Portland: $20,000 

Oregon Symphony Association in Salem, Portland: $5,622

OrpheusPDX, Portland: $5,676

Outside the Frame, Portland: $6,384 

Pacific Youth Choir, Portland: $5,925 

PHAME Academy, Portland: $8,793 

Play It Forward, Beaverton: $5,126

PlayWrite, Portland: $5,523

Portland Actors Conservatory, Portland: $4,747 

Portland Art Museum, Portland: $20,000 

Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland: $9,178 

Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Portland: $20,000

Portland Columbia Symphony, Portland: $4,395 

Portland Drama Club, Portland: $4,212

Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Portland: $3,863 

Portland Gay Men's Chorus Inc., Portland: $7,571 

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland: $14,229

Portland Jazz Festival, Inc. dba PDX Jazz, Portland: $7,155 

Portland Opera Association, Portland: $20,000 

Portland Piano International, Portland: $5,947 

Portland Playhouse, Portland: $14,001 

Portland Revels, Portland: $5,271

Portland Street Art Alliance, Portland: $6,063 

Portland Youth Philharmonic, Portland: $10,239 

Profile Theatre Project, Portland: $7,549 

Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland: $20,000 

Resonance Vocal Ensemble, Portland: $4,204

Scarlet Sails Cultural Foundation, Beaverton: $3,463 

SCRAP Creative Reuse, Portland: $7,025

Shaking the Tree Theatre, Portland: $3,882 

Shaun Keylock Company, Portland: $3,463

Stumptown Stages, Lake Oswego: $4,747 

The Beaverton Arts Foundation, Beaverton: $15,407

The Portland Ballet, Portland: $6,835 

The Red Door Project, Portland: $7,312

The Vanport Mosaic, Portland: $5,175 

Third Angle New Music Ensemble, Portland: $5,055 

Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Portland: $6,978 

triangle productions, Portland: $4,872 

Vibe of Portland, Portland: $4,593

Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation, Portland: $6,141 

White Bird, Portland: $11,583

Willamette Writers, Portland: $3,539 

Write Around Portland, Portland: $7,747 

Young Audiences of Oregon, Portland: $12,613 

Young Musicians & Artists, Portland: $4,761 

Youth Music Project    , West Linn: $11,270

Mid-Valley

Chehalem Center Association, Newberg: $7,233 

Children's Educational Theatre, Salem: $3,863 

Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc., Salem: $8,935

Pentacle Theatre, Salem: $5,175 

Salem Art Association, Salem: $9,287 

Salem Multicultural Institute, Salem: $5,577 

Willamette Art Center, Salem: $3,863 

Willamette University/Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem: $9,738

North Central 

Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River: $5,483

North Coast

Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita: $3,823

Liberty Restoration Inc., Astoria: $10,710

Northeast

Crossroads Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc., Baker City: $4,747

Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council, Inc., La Grande: $5,175 

Fishtrap Inc., Enterprise: $6,735 

Friends of the Opera House, Elgin: $4,360

Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph: $4,409

South Coast

Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay: $4,593

Egyptian Theater Preservation Association, Coos Bay: $3,837

South Valley/Mid Coast

Adventure! Children’s Museum, Eugene: $4,715

Chamber Music Amici, Eugene: $3,303

Community Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene: $6,934 

Comunidad y Herencia Cultural, Springfield: $5,294

Corvallis Arts Center Inc., Corvallis: $6,540 

Corvallis Youth Symphony Association, Corvallis: $4,005 

Cottage Theatre, Cottage Grove: $7,407

Delgani String Quartet, Eugene: $4,848 

Eugene Ballet Company, Eugene: $11,846 

Eugene Concert Choir Inc., Eugene: $6,143 

Eugene Opera, Eugene: $3,303 

Eugene-Springfield Youth Orchestras, Eugene: $4,185

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc., Eugene: $17,933 

Joint Forces Dance Company, Eugene: $4,175 

Lane Arts Council, Eugene: $14,777 

Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City: $5,126 

Maude I. Kerns Art Center, Eugene: $4,747

Maxtivity, Philomath: $4,348

Newport Symphony Orchestra, Newport: $4,298 

Orchestra Next, Eugene: $3,884

Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, Newport: $9,374

Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene: $5,514 

Oregon Mozart Players, Eugene: $5,156

Polly Plumb Productions, Yachats: $4,255

Shedd Institute for the Arts, The John G.       , Eugene: $14,291

Siletz Bay Music Festival, Lincoln City: $3,539 

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis: $9,846

University of Oregon Foundation – Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene: $15,757

Willamette Jazz Society, Eugene: $5,175

Wordcrafters in Eugene, Eugene: $4,348

Southern

Camelot Theatre Company, Talent: $7,020

Collaborative Theatre Project Inc., Medford: $4,011

Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass: $3,863 

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association, Ashland: $20,000 

Peter Britt Gardens Arts and Music Festival Association, Medford: $20,000

Rogue Valley Art Association, Medford: $4,975 

Rogue Valley Chorale Association, Medford: $4,128 

Rogue World Music, Ashland: $4,747

Southern Oregon Film Society, Ashland: $5,750 

Southern Oregon University/ Chamber Music Concerts, Ashland: $4,747 

Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon, Medford: $3,863

Region and counties key: 

Central (Jefferson, Deschutes and Crook Counties)

Greater Eastern North (Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla, Wheeler and Grant Counties)

Greater Eastern South (Harney and Malheur Counties)

Portland Metro (Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties)   

Mid-Valley (Yamhill, Polk and Marion Counties) 

North Central (Hood River, Wasco and Sherman Counties)

North Coast (Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook Counties) 

Northeast (Wallowa, Union and Baker Counties)

South Coast (Douglas, Coos and Curry Counties) 

South Valley/Mid-Coast (Lincoln, Benton, Linn and Lane Counties) 

Southern (Josephine and Jackson Counties) 

The Oregon Arts Commission provides leadership, funding and arts programs through its grants, special initiatives and services. Nine commissioners, appointed by the Governor, determine arts needs and establish policies for public support of the arts. The Arts Commission became part of Business Oregon (formerly Oregon Economic and Community Development Department) in 1993, in recognition of the expanding role the arts play in the broader social, economic and educational arenas of Oregon communities. In 2003, the Oregon Legislature moved the operations of the Oregon Cultural Trust to the Arts Commission, streamlining operations and making use of the Commission’s expertise in grantmaking, arts and cultural information and community cultural development. 


The Arts Commission is supported with general funds appropriated by the Oregon legislature and with federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust. More information about the Oregon Arts Commission is available online at artscommission.oregon.gov.

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