After 14 years as the innovative executive director of the Lincoln City Cultural Center on the Oregon coast, Price will step down Aug. 31. A search is on for her successor.
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July 8, 2025Niel DePonte
A short definition of “too woke” at the Kennedy Center seems to be the presentation of productions that the new chairman (Donald Trump) doesn’t like. Are the arts now a political straw man?
July 3, 2025Andrew Beauchamp and Karen Pate
The bill, awaiting the governor's signature, allocates money around the state. A measure that would have merged the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust did not pass.
July 2, 2025Brett Campbell
Nance, the visionary chief executive of one of Oregon’s most adventurous arts organizations, will leave Portland to direct a major European opera festival in Ireland.
July 1, 2025Meg Wade
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 20, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
Senate Bill 1098, signed this week by Gov. Tina Kotek, is based in Oregon’s discrimination law related to protected classes.
June 20, 2025Bob Hicks
OSF names Javier Dubon as its interim executive director; B&B announces a four-person artistic leadership team; Center Stage needs $1 million more by Aug. 31.
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 17, 2025Holly Dillemuth
Citing ‘personally requested leave,’ Calicchio leaves after less than seven months leading the business side of Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Announcement on succession planning expected next week.
June 17, 2025Bob Hicks
A wake will be held June 17 for Patterson, co-founder of Playwrights West and the prolific author of 50-plus plays, including "Waiting on Sean Flynn" and "Ghostlighting."
June 15, 2025David Slader
A pivotal figure in the city's art world, the distinguished painter and chronicler of the breadth and vigor of Black American life has died after a long battle with cancer.
June 14, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Beaverton's visual and performing arts center announces its newest season of performances, to kick off in September.
June 13, 2025Bob Hicks
Oregon ArtsWatch writer Bash is the North American critics' group's new president and fellow ArtsWatch writer Allen is re-elected as secretary on the executive board.
June 11, 2025Subashini Ganesan-Forbes and Sarah Jane Hardy
The much-loved advocate of the Bharatanatyam dance of her native India, who established Portland's Anjali School of Dance and also worked on Western theater projects, is praised for her openness and collaborative approach to art.
June 9, 2025Bob Hicks
Escola, from Clatskanie, Oregon, won for best leading actor in a play and was also nominated for writing the much-praised farce about Mary Todd Lincoln. Four others with Northwest roots were also Tony nominees.
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, 2025Rick True
The beloved artist, professor, and Blackfish Gallery member passed away in April. Fellow artist Rick True celebrates Dozono's artistic talent, community contributions, and generous heart.
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 8, 2025Charles Rose
The local musicians advocacy group has started a survey to help with students and instructors opposing PCC's proposal to end their MSA program.
May 8, 2025Bob Hicks
The city's biggest theater company aims to shore up its finances by June 2026 – and needs $2.5 million by the end of August to keep its doors open and begin its next season.
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 30, 2025Bob Hicks
UPDATE: 45th Parallel moves its concert out of Madeleine after the Catholic school expels a Black fourth-grade student who reported being taunted with a racial slur on the school playground. After the principal is put on leave, Cascade Composers will keep a May 9 concert at Madeleine.
April 28, 2025Amy Wang
Other winners at Monday night's ceremony include poet Charity E. Yoro, nonfiction authors Rebecca Clarren and Jaclyn Moyer, writers for young readers Anne Broyles and Makiia Lucier, and playwright Brianna Barrett.
