Giving and the Oregon Cultural Tax Credit
November 27, 2023
As the giving season moves into high gear, the state’s innovative tax credit system allows you to double the impact of your donations to nonprofit cultural groups.
As the giving season moves into high gear, the state’s innovative tax credit system allows you to double the impact of your donations to nonprofit cultural groups.
Creating a bigger table for a more sustaining and convivial feast.
Rebekah Sobel will join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in January, moving from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
“The view never stays the same for long; never for a moment, actually”: Dan Powell’s book of photos captures moments from an ever-changing landscape in the dry stretches of the West.
In 1997, Portland actor Tobias Andersen portrayed the famous American lawyer at a huge arts festival in the sprawling city of Lahore. In a new book, he tells the story of his adventures.
A national study reports that the arts rang up an $829 million impact in Oregon in 2022, boosting the economy and creating many jobs. Plus: Oregon is looking for its next poet laureate.
The county follows the City of Portland’s lead in defunding the regional arts granting group – and RACC, in turn, makes plans to continue its services.
Banyas was known nationally for her visionary work in metal arts and enameling: In 2022 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Enamelist Society.
The embattled regional arts funding agency cuts its ties with leader Carol Tatch amid a continuing dispute with the City of Portland, The Oregonian reports.
The company, beset by financial problems in the midst of a major construction project and a suspended season, parts ways with Jeanette Harrison, its artistic director of only a year.
The noted school for physical theater announces an emergency fund drive to keep its doors open. Plus: new Oregon Arts Commission grants, Dan Ryan’s quartet of city Art Talks.
As the world’s climate wobbles, the Portland artist’s show at Waterstone Gallery looks for windows of possibility through fire-and-water catastrophes in Oregon and Pakistan.
Hull, who taught at Willamette University for 40 years, also curated many exhibitions and wrote brilliantly about many leading Northwest artists.
The arts and culture funding group, in the midst of a fierce battle over funding with the City of Portland, puts Executive Director Carol Tatch on paid leave pending investigation of unspecified issues.
The Portland company gets down to the nitty-gritty as it prepares to open its 20th season with a trio of world premieres.
Broadway Rose Theatre pulls out all the stops on the sizzling revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” a celebration of Waller’s music and milieu.
The innovative Portland dance company enters a new season in a spirit of collaboration, civic renewal, and fresh ideas.
The awards to Oregon arts and cultural groups and county and tribal cultural coalitions are a bright spot in a difficult financial year.
News & Notes: A new series of lectures on prominent women artists of the 20th century; The Immigrant Story goes live at The Armory; The –Ism Youth Files kicks off a podcast series.
The longtime curator and director, who spent almost half a century at the Portland Art Museum, was an internationally recognized expert on Asian art.
The 27th annual Art in the Pearl festival highlights Portland’s Labor Day Weekend. Plus, art around Oregon in Astoria, Eugene, and The Dalles.
Ownership of the longtime Black arts center is transferred, and PassinArt Theatre will become a major decision-maker.
Plus: Washougal Art and Music Festival, PassinArt’s festival of multicultural play readings and films.
New novels by Jan Baross and Keith Scales dive deeply into the comic spirit and its nervous underpinnings in a world where things go wrong.
A Multnomah Arts Center exhibit of work by Black Northwest artists delves into the past to create a celebration of Black creativity in the present.
Portland Art Museum and curator Kathleen Ash-Milby play key roles in spotlighting the first solo Indigenous artist at the U.S. Pavilion in the international art showcase’s 129-year history.
The City of Portland tells the Regional Arts & Culture Council it’s going to go it alone on arts policy and funding – and it’s taking its money with it.
Erin Grant is named the Portland Art Museum’s assistant curator of Native American art; the revered Indigenous artist Pitt has an “evening” with friends and followers at Fort Vancouver.
Keller Auditorium, which is susceptible to earthquake damage, must be upgraded — or maybe replaced. Also: The elk is finally close to a return, but Abe and Teddy still wait while the city talks.
At Hallie Ford Museum, the Tom Prochaska retrospective “Music for Ghosts” and a revival of works by the late Jim Hibbard traverse the thin line between traditional and contemporary.
As Oregon lawmakers stumble through a long Senate walkout and then rush to finish business, a cultural sector still hurting from Covid shutdowns loses on several fronts.
The Music Critics Association of North America chooses ArtsWatch writers Angela Allen as secretary and James Bash as treasurer.
The museum names Amy Behrens, executive director of a Southern California cultural center and botanical gardens, to lead it into the future.
The longtime Portland theater figure and Broadway producer wins again, this time for the musical revival of “Parade.”
After a four-month construction shutdown, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education reopens with new shows, a new gallery, and a celebratory street fair.
A celebration of the theater leader’s life is June 19; Oregon immigrant stories move to Hillsboro; small grants help bring 16 Latino art projects to life.
Also: Japanese American Museum’s new leader, springtime for taxes (and donations), sprucing up the libraries.
For decades, Gary Harvey built fences and secretly made art in Wasco County. A first-ever showing of his work is also an art center’s fresh start.
The eighth annual Vanport Mosaic Festival, remembering the flood and its legacy, begins. Also: Schnitzer Hall gets too hot to handle; Carlos Kalmar is investigated.
Oregon Children’s Theatre’s “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” spins a visually sumptuous fantasy from Chinese folklore.
Finding beauty in the movement of the possible; visiting the art museum amid construction; a costuming apprenticeship; a Buttigieg in the house.
The artistic director of the embattled Oregon Shakespeare Festival departs as the company is in the midst of an emergency fund drive to keep its season going.
Check the shelves: It’s Independent Bookstore Day. Also: Indigenous arts fellowships, take the arts survey, “The Judy” opens its doors.
A day set aside for action on global environmental issues is also, on a smaller scale, a day to celebrate indie record shops.
The Portland painter, 70, leaves a legacy of vibrant work ranging from fairy tales to feminism to the grand, unsolvable mysteries of life.
A week before opening night, the Ashland festival puts out a plea for $2.5 million to “save our season.”
The Portland photographer’s images and stories about survivors of genocidal wars open at U.N. headquarters in New York. Plus: Brenda Mallory at the Heard, Cynthia Lahti at the movies.
“Our Creative Future,” a two-year, broad-based planning effort, seeks to set the tone for the growth and stability of the region’s arts culture over the next 10 years.
The Dutch-born painter, whose work was often rooted in his childhood memories of Nazi occupation, explored the dark reaches and possibilities of the human condition.
The world’s oldest performing drag queen, who has died at 92, spent decades helping Portland smile, open up a little, and just grow up.
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