C.O. arts groups among grant recipients
Salem, OR -The Oregon Arts Commission awarded $1.36 million in its first round of awards for fiscal year 2013-14. Grants were awarded in Operating Support: $945,700; Arts Services: $163,400; and Arts Learning programs: $184,500; as well as for designated statewide and regional programs.
Over $60,000 was awarded to Central Oregon arts organizations.
The Commission’s Operating Support grants fund the operations of Oregon’s leading arts groups and acknowledge the role those organizations play in Oregon’s social, educational and economic arenas. Arts Learning grants support the arts as a critical link to educational achievement; they include in-classroom, after-school, and off-site activities, contributing to Oregon’s high level goals for education. Arts Services grants provide operating funds for arts councils and other groups working to make the arts accessible in all parts of Oregon.
In some cases, arts organizations received grants in more than one category, based on their programming. In others, the nonprofits received operating support or arts services grants for programs that had youth, scholastic or lifelong learning components.
In announcing the grants, Christine D’Arcy, Executive Director of the Arts Commission, notes, “These arts organizations are not only enabling Oregonians to experience great art, live performances and new works, they’re making Oregon a better place by retaining jobs, inspiring students and providing lifelong learning for our citizens.”
Central Oregon grants were awarded to:
Arts Central, Bend, $10,500
Arts Services: To support arts services in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties including technical assistance to arts and culture organizations, cultural planning, a Cultural Byways program, public art and initiated the Arts & Culture Alliance. Arts Central provides Artists in the Schools, Adopt a School program, Children’s Art Academy, residencies in five rural counties; maintains the Arts Station, its community school; and offers youth at-risk art programs through its mobile art studio, VanGo.
Arts Central, Bend, $8,000
Arts Learning: To support Stage One of the multi-year Adopt a School project, in partnership with Bend-La Pine School District Title 1 elementary schools to integrate arts curricula and art content standards into the classroom. Stage One includes: 1) professional development of teaching artists, 2) a one-week arts residency for one grade level in up to 12 schools including teacher training on arts curricula and art content standards, 3) a permanent Art Cart with lesson plans and supplies in three pilot schools, and 4) establishing a Teacher Advisory Council with teachers, Arts Central staff, teaching artists, and other arts educators.
High Desert Museum, Bend, $10,000
Operating Support: To support exhibitions and programs to promote a deeper understanding of the region’s arts, culture, history and natural sciences using the visual arts, historical artifacts, living history and wildlife encounters.
Caldera, Sisters, $14,000
Operating Support: To support year-round, interdisciplinary long-term arts education and mentoring that engages underserved youth in Portland and Central Oregon. Its Artists in Residence program invites artists from around the world to its facility outside Sisters to create new work and/or teach their youth.
Caldera, Sisters, $15,000
Arts Learning: To support intensive yearlong instruction in storytelling techniques ranging from traditional forms to cutting-edge digital media for 435 underserved students. Students will work in a variety of disciplines: dance, music, visual arts, theatre, creative writing, photography, video, radio, new media, and a variety of nature studies.
Sunriver Music Festival, $3,000
Operating Support: To support the 36th season of a two-week summer series of classical concerts as well as a Fireside Concert series of soloists and small ensembles between November and April.
The overall grantslist:
Ashland
Chamber Music Concerts, Operating Support, $3,500
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Operating Support, $50,000
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arts Learning, $15,000
Baker City
Crossroads Carnegie Art Center Inc, Operating Support, $3,000
Crossroads Carnegie Art Center Inc, Arts Services, $5,000
Crossroads Carnegie Art Center Inc, Arts Learning, $7,500
Bend
Arts Central, Arts Services, $10,500
Arts Central, Arts Learning, $8,000
High Desert Museum, Operating Support, $10,000
Coos Bay
Coos Art Museum, Operating Support , $4,500
Corvallis
Corvallis Arts Center, Arts Services, $16,000
Corvallis Youth Symphony Association, Operating Support, $4,500
Cottage Grove
Cottage Theatre, Operating Support, $3,000
Enterprise
Fishtrap Inc, Operating Support, $5,000
Eugene
Arts Umbrella, Operating Support, $7,000
Ballet Fantastique, Operating Support, $4,500
Cinema Pacific Film Festival, Operating Support, $3,000
Eugene Ballet Company, Operating Support, $22,000
Eugene Symphony Association Inc, Operating Support, $33,500
The John G Shedd Institute for the Arts, Operating Support, $20,500
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Operating Support, $10,000
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Arts Learning, $5,000
Lane Arts Council, Arts Services, $16,000
Oregon Bach Festival, Operating Support, $16,000
Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Operating Support, $5,000
Hillsboro
Bag & Baggage Productions, Operating Support, $4,000
Hood River
Columbia Arts, Arts Services, $12,000
Columbia Arts, Operating Support, $7,400
Columbia Gorge Arts in Education, Arts Learning, $6,500
Klamath Falls
Ross Ragland Theater, Arts Learning, $6,500
Ross Ragland Theater, Operating Support, $19,000
La Grande
Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council, Arts Learning, $7,500
Lake Oswego
Lakewood Center for the Arts, Arts Services, $12,000
Marylhurst
The Art Gym, Operating Support, $4,000
Medford
Peter Britt Gardens Music & Arts Festival Association, Operating Support, $11,000
Rogue Gallery & Art Center, Operating Support, $4,500
Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon, Operating Support, $5,000
Newport
Newport Symphony Orchestra, Operating Support, $3,000
Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, Arts Services, $15,500
Oregon City
Arts Action Alliance Foundation, Arts Services, $8,500
Clackamas Repertory Theatre, Operating Support, $3,500
Otis
Neskowin Coast Foundation, Operating Support, $12,200
Pendleton
Arts Council of Pendleton, Arts Services, $10,000
Arts Council of Pendleton, Operating Support, $8,000
Crow’s Shadow Institute, Operating Support, $4,500
Portland
All Classical Public Media Inc, Operating Support, $14,500
Architecture Foundation of Oregon, Arts Learning, $8,000
Artists Repertory Theatre, Operating Support, $10,000
BodyVox, Operating Support, $15,000
Business for Culture & the Arts, Arts Services, $9,900
Caldera, Operating Support, $14,000
Caldera, Arts Learning, $15,000
Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble, Operating Support, $9,000
Chamber Music Northwest, Operating Support, $11,500
Friends of Chamber Music, Operating Support, $10,000
The Circus Project, Operating Support, $3,000
Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center, Operating Support, $11,000
Ethos Music Center, Operating Support, $10,000
Ethos Music Center, Arts Learning, $11,500
Hand2Mouth Theatre, Operating Support, $4,000
Hollywood Theatre, Operating Support, $9,500
Imago the Theatre Mask Ensemble, Operating Support, $4,500
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Operating Support, $10,500
Literary Arts, Operating Support, $17,300
Literary Arts, Arts Learning, $14,000
Live Wire Radio, Operating Support, $13,000
Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Operating Support, $7,000
Miracle Theatre Group, Operating Support, $13,000
Miracle Theatre Group, Arts Services, $7,000
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Operating Support, $8,500
My Voice Music Incorporated, Operating Support, $5,000
Northwest Children’s Theater & School, Operating Support, $5,000
Northwest Dance Project, Operating Support, $7,500
Northwest Documentary Arts & Media, Operating Support. $4,000
Northwest Film Center, Arts Learning, $9,000
Oregon Ballet Theatre, Operating Support, $20,000
Oregon Center for Photographic Arts, Operating Support, $4,500
Oregon Children’s Theatre, Operating Support, $17,500
Oregon Public Broadcasting, Operating Support, $18,000
Oregon Symphony Association, Operating Support, $34,500
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Operating Support, $11,000
Pacific Youth Choir, Operating Support, $5,000
Pendulum Aerial Arts, Operating Support, $3,000
PlayWrite, Operating Support, $6,000
Portland Art Museum, Operating Support, $40,000
The Portland Ballet, Operating Support, $8,300
Portland Baroque Orchestra, Operating Support, $22,000
Portland Center Stage, Arts Learning, $7,500
Portland Center Stage, Operating Support, $22,000
Portland Children’s Museum Arts Learning, $7,500
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Operating Support, $7,500
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Operating Support, $17,000
Portland Opera Association, Operating Support, $50,000
Portland Opera Association, Arts Learning, $9,000
Portland Symphonic Choir, Operating Support, $7,000
Portland Taiko, Arts Learning, $7,000
Portland Taiko, Operating Support, $8,000
Portland Youth Philharmonic Association, Operating Support, $10,000
Profile Theatre, Operating Support, $3,000
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Arts Learning, $15,000
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Operating Support, $13,000
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Arts Services, $20,000
Tears of Joy Theatre, Operating Support, $11,500
Third Angle New Music Ensemble Inc, Operating Support, $4,500
Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Operating Support, $5,000
Triangle Productions!, rating Support, $4,000
White Bird, Operating Support, $10,000
Wordstock, Operating Support, $5,500
Write Around Portland, Operating Support, $13,000
Young Audiences of Oregon Inc, Arts Services, $6,000
Young Audiences of Oregon Inc, Arts Learning, $11,500
Roseburg
Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Operating Support, $3,000
Salem
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Operating Support, $8,000
Salem Art Association, Arts Services, $15,000
Salem Art Association, Operating Support, $6,000
Salem Art Association, Arts Learning, $13,500
Salem Chamber Orchestra, Operating Support, $5,000
Salem Multicultural Institute, Operating Support, $8,000
Willamette Art Center, Operating Support, $3,000
Silverton
Silverton Arts Association, Operating Support, $2,000
Sunriver
Sunriver Music Festival, Operating Support, $3,000
The Dalles
The Dalles Art Association, Operating Support, $3,000
Tigard
Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Operating Support, $16,000
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The Oregon Arts Commission provides leadership, funding and arts programs through its grants, special initiatives and services. The Arts Commission became part of Business Oregon 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. www.oregonartscommission.org
