October 2024

Office of Arts & Culture to invest $4M+ in 80 local arts organizations in 2025 🎉

Artists are the core of our region’s creative economy and cultural landscape, and Portland’s Office of Arts & Culture is pleased to announce its intention to award $4,098,538 in funding to 80 local arts organizations in Portland for fiscal year 2024-25. 

City Council passes resolution to establish performing arts venues workgroup

On the heels of the passage of the Keller resolution earlier this month, today the Portland City Council passed a resolution to establish a performing arts workgroup to explore opportunities and challenges to both immediate and long-term operations, maintenance, and planning of the City-owned Portland'5 Centers for the Arts venues. The resolution also directs the study of alternative operational models for the P'5 arts facilities. 

A brand new Arts & Culture brand 🤩

If you’ve been receiving the Office of Arts & Culture newsletter for a while, you may notice that this one looks a little different. That’s because we’ve pulled elements of Arts & Culture’s new brand into this iteration.

Part of a larger rebranding effort, in the coming weeks and months, new visual elements—including our logo, brand colors, fonts, and more—will be leveraged not only for this newsletter, but everything coming out of the Arts & Culture office.

We think the new brand embodies the dynamic nature of Portland’s local arts and culture landscape, and that it’ll help us advance our goal of putting arts and culture at the center of public life of for all Portlanders. We can't wait to share more of it with you!

Get immersed in Our Creative Future 🎨

Our Creative Future is a community-led arts and culture framework that maps out a vision for the region’s future, inclusive of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties. And we just launched a brand-new website! Check it out to learn more about the regional framework’s goals and strategies, area-specific action plans, and opportunities to get involved.

Public art spotlight: Flow by Greg A. Robinson

Part of the Percent for Art Program managed by Arts & Culture, Flow by Greg A. Robinson (Chinook) was recently installed as part of the Washington Park South Entry project. Now complete, the project addressed stormwater management, a reimagined grand entry, and improved pedestrian, bike, and vehicular access. Robinson's work was inspired by the circular nature of the site, cycles of nature, and natural/native resources, as well as the physical elements of the surrounding area.

"Arts for All of Us" student poster contest

Why is access to arts in schools important for Portland schoolchildren? That’s the question the Arts Access Fund, part of Arts & Culture, is asking K-5 students to respond to in its “Arts for All of Us” poster contest. In addition to an arts supply basket, the two winning posters will be displayed around Portland in March 2025 in celebration of Arts in our Schools month. Submissions are due November 15.

Congrats to the new IFCC Resident Artists

The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) has served as an arts center and cultural home for Portland's Black community since its founding in 1982. The IFCC Grant and Residency Program, which supports artists working at any level and in a variety of disciplines, recently announced two new cohorts of Resident Artists for 2024-2025, including: 

• Arietta Ward aka Mz. Etta
• Melanie Stevens
• Jason Hill Photography
• Immutable Studio
• Darrell Grant
• Jolly Wrapper & Ya Heard!
• Michael Crenshaw
• Jae Nichelle

Grant opportunities

• Community Cultural Participation Grant from Multnomah County Cultural Coalition
  Up to $3,000 | Application close date: November 10, 2024

Arts and culture headlines 📰

• Portland's Office of Arts & Culture splits $4 million art tax between 80 creative institutions (Willamette Week)
• In its coverage of the Portland Monuments Symposium, Converge 45 said, "there's no greater time than right now to discuss and support work that looks towards more equitable and just ways to live together in the future." (Flossin Magazine)
• Vanport Mosaic, an Arts & Culture General Operating Support grantee, organized a week of activations to reimagine historic Old Town (The Oregonian)
• Portland is poised to approve the restoration of iconic, 120-year-old Thompson Elk Statue (The Oregonian)

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