Claire Willett explores the new guidelines around gender ideology the National Endowment for the Arts has set for grant applicants and how they might affect Oregon arts organizations.
February 16, 2025Dee Moore
Bills announced at a Salem gathering range from increased funding to cultural construction projects to a merger of two state cultural agencies and a crackdown on ticket scalping.
February 14, 2025Bob Hicks
The Portland choir's $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, snagged by the Trump Administration's freeze on approved grants, breaks free as the choir prepares for a key series of concerts.
February 6, 2025Laura Grimes
In a sign of how the Trump administration is changing the funding landscape for the arts, the National Endowment for the Arts has eliminated its grant aimed at underserved communities.
February 1, 2025Bob Hicks
A $35,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant is still stalled, but private donations have helped fill the gap, and a crucial concert will go on. Meanwhile, nonprofits across the nation aren't sure what comes next.
January 30, 2025Amy Wang
Patrons designed promotional logos for the library and, during a “Library Love-In,” wrote postcards about what the library means to them.
January 28, 2025Bob Hicks
The two state agencies are asking the Legislature to OK creating a new united agency, with the hope of more efficiency, creative thinking, independence, and impact on Oregon's art and culture.
January 27, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
The short-term program has helped chart the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center’s future as a thriving home for Portland Black arts and culture.
January 21, 2025Bob Hicks
Oregon Arts Commission awards $5,000 Arts Build Communities grants to cultural groups across the state. Plus: A $50,000 national grant for Oregon artist Takahiro Yamamoto.
January 14, 2025Bob Hicks
The museum's grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help fund projects on desert climate change and a website exploring the culture and nature of the High Desert. A third grant to historian Julie Weise will help underwrite a book on migrant workers in the U.S. and beyond.
January 1, 2025Bob Hicks
From construction projects at the Portland Art Museum and elsewhere to tight budgets and uncertainty about money to tales about Portland's Black music history and a puppet museum and a giant pumpkin regatta, Oregon's arts world presses ahead.
December 25, 2024Bob Hicks
The state's innovative Cultural Tax Credit program lets you give money to any of 1,600 Oregon arts & cultural groups, match your gift to the Cultural Trust, and get a deduction on your state taxes. Deadline is Dec. 31.
December 19, 2024Bob Hicks
The Miller Foundation's individual Spark Award grants are the first in a three-year program that eventually will award 60 grants totaling $1.5 million to a broad range of artists.
December 13, 2024Bob Hicks
November 12, 2024Bob Hicks
A continuing revitalization-grants program of the Oregon Community Foundation has awarded $578,000 so far to arts and cultural groups from Coos Bay to Bend to Baker City and beyond.
November 2, 2024Bob Hicks
General operating grants from Portland's new Office of Arts & Culture aid 80 organizations – and some smaller groups say the grants are going disproportionately to the city's big companies.
October 24, 2024Jean Zondervan
The company’s 2024-25 season will highlight several of the groundbreaking woman ballet leader's most popular works, including the debut of her new ballet "The Lark Ascending.”
October 13, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
As the critical November election approaches, City Hall candidates weigh in on how they would approach vital arts issues and policies.
August 1, 2024Laura Grimes
With many new faces taking the helm, arts leaders make a case for why culture plays a significant role in the city's economy.
July 25, 2024Bob Hicks
As the city puts its parks and arts programs under the same umbrella, it considers replacing the arts tax with a new levy for both. And one of Keller Auditorium's major tenants comes out staunchly in favor of PSU's proposed replacement halls.
April 16, 2024Bob Hicks
The award from the National Endowment for the Humanites will help the Bend museum revitalize its permanent collection dedicated to Indigenous peoples of the region.
April 7, 2024Bob Hicks
Our Creative Future, which is shaping the Portland metro area's public approach to arts policies, will have a Virtual Town Meeting April 9. And the City of Portland shifts its cultural lineup.
April 6, 2024Garret Jaros/YachatsNews.com
The plan to make up the balance needed for the $1.45 million project now goes to the City Council.
March 27, 2024Bob Hicks
News & Notes: Portland's biggest theater company is one of three nationally to win $1 million grants from the Mellon Foundation. Plus: Center Stage's new season; new faces at the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust.
March 12, 2024Bob Hicks
The 2024 session improves on a dismal '23 session for the arts, with allocations for several large organizations, less for smaller ones, and an unwelcome surprise for the High Desert Museum.
February 23, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
The 65-year-old Grants Pass library has not kept pace with the city's growth; funds from the Cow Creek Band and a bill before the Legislature would help pay to replace it.
February 8, 2024Ned Hayes
As greater Portland's arts and cultural system continues a slow structural evolution, a gathering at PSU hears information but not yet the shape of a completed plan.
February 5, 2024Bob Hicks
Shut out in the 2023 legislative session after a Senate walkout stalled action, Oregon arts advocates and legislators are pushing in '24 for some major state funding.
January 9, 2024Bob Hicks
The Eugene paper, which had laid off its entire staff in a financial emergency, is making progress, and the Dell'Arte theater school is bouncing back. Triangle's Off-Broadway show extends; artist grants announced.
January 1, 2024Bob Hicks
It was a year of building booms, an Off-Broadway triumph, a financial flop in the Legislature, a great cultural-funding divorce, AI everywhere, and a good number of artistic happy surprises.
