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RACC Awards $732,440 in Project Grants to Schools, Arts Organizations and Individual Artists

The People’s History of Hawthorne – Artist, Chris Haberman Fraternal Order of Eagles, SE 50th & Hawthorne; RACC Funding $2,400;

Portland, December 20st. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) announced that $732,440 will be awarded for artistic projects scheduled to take place in 2013 – including 66 grants to organizations and schools, and 94 individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. This is the largest sum that RACC has ever awarded for project grants.

Keller Auditorium Mural – Una Kim and Students from Portland State University
222 SW Clay; RACC Funding: $3200; 18’H x 108’L

RACC’s funding of project grants is up 5% over last year, thanks to solid public investments from the City of Portland, Clackamas County, Multnomah County, Washington County, and Metro; and continued growth of Work for Art, RACC’s workplace giving program. Demand is up even more: RACC received 352 eligible applications this cycle – up 12% over last year.

Seventy volunteers serving on 18 different panels evaluated the proposals based on artistic merit, audience development and financial accountability. In the end, 160 (45%) of the proposals were recommended for funding and ultimately approved by the RACC Board on December 19th.

A complete list of grants awarded can be found at www.racc.org/2013projectgrants. They include:

The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Clackamas County received a first-time RACC grant for Stand Up for Mental Health and will present comedy classes to individuals living with chronic mental health issues.
The Hillsboro Farmers’ Market in Washington County will present a series of summer cultural festivals in celebration of the diversity of the Hillsboro community featuring performances and crafts highlighting the Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and Indian communities.
Other culturally-specific artistic projects include performances of Lyndee Mah’s memoir piece E-B’an, Damaris Webb’s solo show The Box Marked Black, and Boom Arts’ puppet musical Tunde’s Trumpet. RACC also continues to fund diverse organizations like India Cultural Association, RASIKA, The Obo Addy Legacy Project, Painted Sky, and Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.
The number of applications to RACC’s Media Arts category continues to grow every year, and Grand Detour received its first RACC award to produce the 2nd annual Experimental Film Fest at venues throughout the city. Other projects funded in this category include Sway of the Knife by Vu N. Pham and Cooped, a hand-drawn animated short film by Mike A. Smith.
RACC also funded a number of multi-discipline projects that included strong media or technology elements, including Water in the Desert’s interdisciplinary performance AMERICAN ME, and Bill Holznagel’s Daisy Shorts using film and puppetry. Kelly Rauer’s Underbelly and Jacob Pander’s Incident Energy are both multi-channel video installations, and Ben Darwish’s Adobe Globe is a long-form musical composition incorporating multimedia elements.
For the first time, RACC convened a visual arts panel focused solely on photography projects, which resulted in several first time project grant recipients including Teresa Christiansen, Anna Daedalus, Loren Nelson and TJ Norris.
RACC-funded projects will continue to engage youth in many ways, ranging from Staged! Portland’s Musical Theatre Series’ professional premiere of “Ablaze: an a cappella musical thriller” written by local playwright and composer Matthew Zrebski, to the Girls Rock Institute at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, and the Kukatonon Children’s African Dance Troupe program.
In addition, an anonymous donor continues to provide special funding for an annual “Innovation Prize” of $2,500. This year’s award for outstanding, innovative, media-oriented project goes to Orlund Nutt for a short movie based on the James Broughton poem, ‘Bear of Heaven’.

“We were amazed and inspired by the proposals we received this year,” said Eloise Damrosch, executive director of RACC. “It is especially gratifying to see that our outreach to artists and arts organizations is resulting in a significant increase in new applications. These grant awards will bring exciting variety to the region’s artistic offerings next year.”

A complete listing of grants appears below, and summaries of each grant are available at www.racc.org/2013projectgrants.

Note: (*) denotes Clackamas County applicants, and (**) denotes Washington County based applicants. All other applicants are based in Multnomah County.

Organization	Category/Discipline	Amount
Architecture Foundation of Oregon	Arts-in-Schools	$ 6,000
Beaverton Civic Theatre **	Community Participation	$ 3,620
Boom Arts	Theatre	$ 6,000
Bubbaville	Community Participation	$ 5,800
Buckman Arts Focus Elementary	Arts-in-Schools	$ 4,800
Classical Revolution PDX	Music	$ 2,460
Compass Repertory Theatre	Community Participation	$ 5,024
Conduit Dance, Inc.	Dance	$ 6,000
Dill Pickle Club	Community Participation	$ 5,691
Dill Pickle Club	Literature	$ 3,720
Estacada Arts Commission *	Community Participation	$ 5,058
Experimental Half-Hour	Media Arts	$ 4,800
FearNoMusic	Music	$ 5,400
Friends of Marquam Nature Park	Community Participation	$ 4,800
Grand Detour	Media Arts	$ 3,731
Hand2Mouth Theatre	Theatre	$ 5,700
Hillsboro Farmers’ Markets, INC. **	Community Participation	$ 4,800
Impact NW	Arts-in-Schools	$ 5,998
India Cultural Association **	Community Participation	$ 3,655
Irvington School PTA	Arts-in-Schools	$ 3,542
Kukatonon	Arts-in-Schools	$ 5,700
Lewis & Clark College Hoffman Gallery	Visual Arts	$ 5,100
Living Stages	Community Participation	$ 4,720
Media, Arts & Technology Institute	Arts-in-Schools	$ 4,304
MetroArts Inc	Music	$ 4,316
Museum of Contemporary Craft	Folk Arts	$ 6,000
Music Access Project of Portland	Arts-in-Schools	$ 4,800
My Voice Music	Community Participation	$ 5,307
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Clackamas County *	Community Participation	$ 4,433
NAYA Family Center	Arts-in-Schools	$ 4,800
NAYA Family Center	Community Participation	$ 4,500
North Clackamas School District *	Arts-in-Schools	$ 4,500
Opera Theater Oregon	Theatre	$ 4,999
Oregon Cultural Access	Community Participation	$ 3,521
Orlo	Literature	$ 5,950
Pacific Northwest College of Art	Visual Arts	$ 6,000
Painted Sky Inc. **	Folk Arts	$ 4,520
Polaris Dance Theatre	Dance	$ 4,800
Polish Library Association	Presenting	$ 5,700
Portland Actors Conservatory	Theatre	$ 3,685
Portland Children’s Museum	Community Participation	$ 6,000
Portland Jazz Festival	Music	$ 4,800
Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival	Media Arts	$ 4,800
Portland Playhouse	Theatre	$ 4,800
QDoc	Media Arts	$ 5,950
Portland Revels	Community Participation	$ 3,560
Portland Story Theater	Theatre	$ 4,380
Portland-Suzhou Sister City Association **	Multi-Discipline	$ 3,200
Portland State University Department of Art	Visual Arts	$ 4,000
RASIKA – India Arts and Culture Council	Music	$ 4,608
RECESS LLC	Social Practice	$ 3,563
Resonance Ensemble	Music	$ 6,000
Rex Putnam High School Theatre Department *	Arts-in-Schools	$ 5,220
Jerry Tischleder	Presenting	$ 5,985
Rock and Roll Camp for Girls	Community Participation	$ 4,800
Signal Fire	Multi-Discipline	$ 3,000
Sowelu Theater	Theatre	$ 4,425
Staged! Portland’s Musical Theatre Series *	Theatre	$ 5,044
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University *	Visual Arts	$ 4,500
The Library Foundation	Community Participation	$ 4,800
The Obo Addy Legacy Project	Multi-Discipline	$ 5,850
Theatre In The Grove **	Community Participation	$ 4,800
Theatre Vertigo	Theatre	$ 3,222
Water in the Desert \| Mizu Desierto	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,800
Willamette Partnership **	Arts-in-Schools	$ 2,280
World Forestry Center	Visual Arts	$ 2,687

Individual Artists	Category/Discipline	Amount
Devon Allen	Theatre	$ 4,620
Corey Averill *	Music	$ 4,463
Hayley Barker	Visual Arts	$ 3,513
Amy Bernstein	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,260
Barbara Bernstein	Media Arts	$ 6,000
Jesse Blanchard	Multi-Discipline	$ 5,486
Andy Blubaugh	Media Arts	$ 5,624
Beth Madsen Bradford	Music	$ 1,654
Gary Brickner-Schulz	Theatre	$ 4,603
Tracy Broyles	Dance	$ 4,370
Jessica Burton	Dance	$ 3,727
Teresa Christiansen	Visual Arts	$ 4,119
Anna Crandall	Community Participation	$ 4,569
CarlosAlexis Cruz	Theatre	$ 4,800
Philip Cuomo	Theatre	$ 4,926
Anna Daedalus	Visual Arts	$ 5,700
Berl Dana’y	Arts-in-Schools	$ 2,640
Ben Darwish	Music	$ 5,700
Shelby Davis	Visual Arts	$ 4,800
Daniel Duford	Visual Arts	$ 4,560
Dan Duval	Music	$ 5,830
Wynde Dyer	Visual Arts	$ 5,696
Lisa Fink	Community Participation	$ 1,984
Subashini Ganesan	Dance	$ 4,616
Keyon Gaskin	Multi-Discipline	$ 5,382
Nicole J. Georges	Community Participation	$ 5,400
Leanne Grabel	Literature	$ 4,450
Anna Gray	Visual Arts	$ 4,380
Cheryl Green	Community Participation	$ 4,198
Jenni GreenMiller	Theatre	$ 3,218
Ashia Joanna Grzesik	Music	$ 1,625
Courtenay Hameister	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,300
Joel Harmon	Theatre	$ 2,888
Jen Harrison	Music	$ 5,033
Chisao Hata	Dance	$ 5,100
Matthew Henderson	Multi-Discipline	$ 2,924
Ashley Hollingshead	Theatre	$ 5,034
Bill Holznagel *	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,425
CJ Hurley	Visual Arts	$ 4,500
Kazuyo Ito	Arts-in-Schools	$ 4,489
Sara Jaffe	Literature	$ 4,182
Julie Keefe	Community Participation	$ 5,475
Eva Kokopeli	Community Participation	$ 3,808
Joanne Kollman	Visual Arts	$ 5,092
Lee Krist	Visual Arts	$ 4,774
Andrea Leoncavallo	Visual Arts	$ 4,800
Alain LeTourneau	Visual Arts	$ 4,624
Lyndee Mah	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,500
Margaret Malone	Literature	$ 1,640
Carla Mann	Dance	$ 5,963
Paul Martone	Literature	$ 5,387
Jim McGinn	Dance	$ 4,800
Max McGrath-Riecke	Theatre	$ 5,631
Janet McIntyre	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,794
Chaz Mortimer	Arts-in-Schools	$ 5,700
Emily Nachison	Visual Arts	$ 5,100
Loren Nelson **	Visual Arts	$ 3,298
Eric Nordin **	Theatre	$ 4,774
TJ Norris	Visual Arts	$ 1,688
Orland Nutt	Media Arts	$ 4,566
Orland Nutt	Innovation Prize	$ 2,500
Caroline Oakley	Arts-in-Schools	$ 4,680
Kristin Olson-Huddle	Theatre	$ 3,500
Brian Padian	Media Arts	$ 5,079
Jacob Pander	Media Arts	$ 5,307
Casey Parks	Media Arts	$ 5,100
Leif Peterson	Media Arts	$ 4,500
Nick Peterson	Media Arts	$ 5,695
Vu N. Pham	Media Arts	$ 5,026
Lisa Radon	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,900
Jayanthi Raman **	Dance	$ 5,355
Kelly Rauer	Media Arts	$ 5,596
Michael Reinsch	Multi-Discipline	$ 3,463
Michelle Ross	Visual Arts	$ 1,200
John C. Savage	Music	$ 3,376
Crystal Schenk	Visual Arts	$ 4,800
Lisa Ann Schonberg	Multi-Discipline	$ 5,100
Heidi Schwegler	Multi-Discipline	$ 5,144
Rebecca L. Shapiro	Visual Arts	$ 5,229
Larry Sherman	Multi-Discipline	$ 4,800
Carter Sickels	Literature	$ 3,420
Shalanda R. Sims	Arts-in-Schools	$ 5,100
Stephen Slappe	Media Arts	$ 5,946
Mike A. Smith	Media Arts	$ 3,360
Julia Stoops	Visual Arts	$ 5,686
Paul Susi	Theatre	$ 4,063
Minh Tran	Dance	$ 4,500
Curtis Walker	Community Participation	$ 5,558
Samantha Wall	Visual Arts	$ 1,368
Holcombe Waller	Multi-Discipline	$ 5,700
Archie Washington	Community Participation	$ 4,069
Damaris Webb	Theatre	$ 2,970
Jackie Weissman	Media Arts	$ 4,800
Emmett Wheatfall	Multi-Discipline	$ 3,260
Alan Wone	Media Arts	$ 4,760

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Mary Bauer

Communications Associate

Regional Arts & Culture Council

Elisa Klein

I’ve been a professional journalist and writer since 1987, (and long-time reporter for KOIN-TV.) As a nationally published reporter, with a Master’s Degree in Journalism, I love to report positive news and information. Journalism has also connected me with another non-profit where I served as a leader; the Northwest’s biggest writer’s organization: The Willamette Writers.