Other literary events this month include readings by nine writers at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport and a celebration of small presses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The awards to Oregon arts and cultural groups and county and tribal cultural coalitions are a bright spot in a difficult financial year.
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.
As several cultural measures seek passage, for the first time Oregon’s Legislature has a caucus to push for cultural funding in the state budget. Also, for nonprofits: statewide conversations with funders.
New funding program benefits Portland new music organizations, and other news in Oregon music
Two big gifts aid the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and five Portland groups; new faces at the Miller Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission; a leadership incubator wants you.
The choreographer, arts advocate, and former Creative Laureate of Portland moves on to the state arts stage.
Beth Harper to retire from The Actors Conservatory after 37 years; Portland Open Studios hires its first executive director; Arts Commission announces new grants.
A record-setting round of awards will help fund projects by 140 cultural organizations across Oregon.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon Symphony picks a new leader; we begin a Black-music column; finale for Fertile Ground.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A young poet and a steady voice highlight the clarity of ritual and the art of governance.
The veteran artists are exemplars of independent dance artists making successful careers in Portland.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As coronavirus reshapes the world, our virtual and physical realities begin to overlap.
We talked to Brian Rogers, who leads the state’s arts services organizations, about current conditions and some help on the way.
A leading Oregon theater artist says extending equity to all groups is a way forward for everyone.
Work begins on the $51 million Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, a long-held dream for the city’s center-in-the-making.
The National Endowment for the Arts today announced its latest round of grants, more than $80 million across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. jurisdictions. Oregon’s share is $1,219,200 among 17 groups and agencies – more
Abigail Sperling is everywhere. That’s the impression one gets from her official biography. At Linfield College in McMinnville, she’s a flute professor. She is also coordinator for winds and percussion and flute instructor at Chemeketa Community College in Salem. In Corvallis, she’s
“It’s unlikely but not impossible,” I wrote four days ago in the ArtsWatch story A little money for the arts, “that the [National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities], which have been targets of the fiscal and social right almost since
Government funding for the arts continues to be a political hot potato in the American cultural kitchen – and it continues to survive, if on a considerably leaner diet than is common in European nations, where the arts tend to thought of
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