At a time of increasing strife in the U.S., Oregon prepares to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday by recognizing both the positive and negative aspects of the country's history.
December 2, 2025Jim Redden
The corporate giant created unauthorized fundraising pages for nonprofit groups in Oregon and across the U.S., keeping some of the money raised. Now, impacted groups are taking legal action.
November 24, 2025Jim Redden
At least $867,000 in previously approved funding is in danger as the Oregon Legislature grapples with sharp cuts in federal funding and a big state budget shortfall.
November 21, 2025Jim Redden
After months of discussion, the Metro Council votes to transfer management of the three downtown performance buildings to the City of Portland by July 1, 2027.
November 20, 2025Amy Leona Havin
El Akkad's book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," is a blistering reflection on the Israel-Hamas war.
November 20, 2025Bob Hicks
Sustaining grants from the Oregon Arts Commission for nonprofit arts groups throughout the state will total $1,759,580 in fiscal 2026, a slight rise from 2025.
November 18, 2025Marty Hughley
The beloved singer/songwriter, a stalwart of the Portland music scene for more than 50 years, leaves a legacy of music and memories for his many friends and fans.
November 14, 2025Jim Redden
Twenty literary and media artists in Oregon receive $25,000 each in the second year of the foundation's three-year push to boost the careers of individual artists in the state.
November 12, 2025Jim Redden
A promised $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help fund the center's 2026 Artists' Biennial is abruptly snatched back. But the show will go on.
As the president rejects funding for art about gender, race, and "anti-American values," historians, museums, and cultural centers across Oregon and the U.S. fight back.
November 10, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
“Safe,” “welcoming,” and “awesome” are a few words Portlanders and visitors alike used to describe downtown.
November 7, 2025Bob Hicks
Amy Lewin will oversee the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust, and will be a part of Business Oregon's leadership team.
November 7, 2025Jim Redden
Arts & cultural leaders gather to plan a strategy for greater funding from the Oregon Legislature for arts, culture, heritage and humanities, aiming for the 2027 session.
November 6, 2025Jim Redden
The popular Portland-based variety show, broadcast by public radio stations across the nation, is caught in the federal squeeze of public broadcasting and needs to raise $150,000 as the first step in a turnaround campaign.
November 5, 2025Jim Redden
Despite opposition based partly on a higher tax rate and a critical city audit, the measure passes, guaranteeing open parks and parks-run arts programs.
October 31, 2025Jim Redden
The Trump Administration's assault on arts, culture, and the humanities has hit arts groups hard in the pocketbook. The fight for free expression could end up in the Supreme Court.
October 30, 2025Holly Dillemuth
Plans for a major expansion of the art museum are shelved, and its future is unsure: "You kind of feel like the rug was pulled from underneath you," the museum's director says.
October 26, 2025Caitlin Nolan
In awarding the $25,000 prize to the Sri Lankan writer, the selectors called the novel “an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.”
October 25, 2025Lincoln Chronicle
The new "wow factor" building increases the library’s size by half and is coming in on budget.
October 24, 2025Lori Tobias
Dressel, whose parents owned the old Bay House restaurant, says she has big shoes to fill succeeding Niki Price in the role.
October 23, 2025Amanda Waldroupe
Fewer grant funds, which help arts organizations pay their general operating expenses, are available this year compared to last, due to city budget cuts and rising costs.
October 23, 2025Jim Redden
After an outcry among arts and other nonprofit groups that the unauthorized accounts created significant dangers, GoFundMe has altered its program and created safeguards.
October 18, 2025Claire Willett
As No Kings Day protesters crowd the streets, Portland artists declare the importance of positive creative energy in protecting the soul of the city.
October 16, 2025Bob Hicks
A month before the unveiling of its decade-long construction and expansion project that reinvents the downtown museum's galleries and campus, all the money is in hand.
October 16, 2025Jim Redden
As the Nov. 4 election draws close, parks supporters push back against a city audit declaring that the Parks department, which hosts many arts events, has allowed the city's parks to fall into disrepair.
October 10, 2025Brett Campbell
Big changes are underway at Portland Opera, Oregon Bach Festival, the Britt Festival and more.
October 9, 2025Jim Redden
The dismantling of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting puts public radio and TV stations across the nation in a financial bind. In Oregon, stations are seeking fresh funding sources, and rural stations are hit the hardest.
October 8, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Two Seattle writers, Claudia Rowe and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega, round out the Northwest representation among award finalists.
October 4, 2025Jim Redden
As the president deploys a host of California National Guard troops to the heart of Oregon's biggest city, downtown arts groups large and small report steady rises in attendance, though not yet to pre-pandemic levels.
October 2, 2025Laura Grimes
We accomplished another year of astonishing growth and continue to punch way above our weight at a time when independent journalism is more critical than ever.
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