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