Stories shape us, and the endowment – facing elimination by the Trump administration – helps us tell our culturally important tales. You can help keep the federal and Oregon endowments and other crucial agencies alive.
June 26, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
Despite the city’s budget woes, the office found an additional $170,000 to help arts organizations with basic operating costs.
June 24, 2025Bob Hicks
Money could go to groups across the state, from Portland Center Stage to the High Desert Museum to the Coos Art Museum; proposed merger of Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust still waiting.
June 18, 2025Brett Campbell
As the state's budgets tighten, musician and educator Darrell Grant takes a plea for arts funding to Salem — and brings back lessons in arts advocacy for other artists and arts followers to adopt.
June 18, 2025Claire Willett
Sunday, June 22, is a key deadline for the proposed budget, which would eliminate the NEA and NEH. ArtsWatch has resources, call scripts, and more to help Oregonians push back.
June 4, 2025Bob Hicks
Multnomah County, facing a tight budget and preparing to trim it, is poised to radically cut its support of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. RACC is making an emergency plea for public support to stop the proposed slashes.
May 28, 2025Bob Hicks
In vibrant music and compelling stories of immigration, The Reser hosts an evening of blending cultural traditions and finding fresh starts in Oregon.
May 22, 2025Bob Hicks
Twenty mid-career literary and media artists will receive $25,000 each. Plus: A trio of visual artists win $35,000 Hallie Ford fellowships; 29 artists share $97,000+ from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation.
May 17, 2025Bob Hicks
Patricia Rojas, chosen after a national search by the Regional Arts & Culture Council as it transitions from a string of setbacks, will begin her new job August 1.
May 16, 2025Claire Willett
The war against DOGE comes to Portland as state humanities councils join forces in court to challenge attacks on their funding and programming.
May 6, 2025Claire Willett
Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, and find free resources and support on what steps to take.
May 3, 2025Claire Willett
Grant recipients scramble as promised funding is withdrawn for programs already in motion.
April 30, 2025Claire Willett
The battle over federal arts funding is a stark reminder of why the arts matter in a democracy, and how communities can step up to protect them.
April 28, 2025Claire Willett
Theaters opposed to new NEA guidelines wait to see where the DOGE axe will fall next.
April 23, 2025Subashini Ganesan-Forbes
As federal funding shrinks and whole programs face the threat of dismantling, the dancer/choreographer and chair of the Oregon Arts Commission lays out practical steps that any and everyone can take.
April 21, 2025Bob Hicks
As federal funding threatens to dry up, OCF announces grants of up to $100,000 each to more than 300 arts and cultural groups of all sizes throughout the state.
April 17, 2025Dee Moore
At a reception sponsored by the Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon, Oregon Cultural Trust and Oregon Arts Commission, leaders from across the state tell their stories and plan to lobby legislators.
March 24, 2025Claire Willett
A simplified grant application and unrestricted funding gives each arts organization the flexibility to use grant money where it can make the most impact.
March 11, 2025Claire Willett
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.
