Portland, OR. Ballet Popalatl provided a colorful kickoff to Juice, a re-vamped event formerly known as the Arts Breakfast of Champions. The event on February 8th was a celebration of the business community’s support for creative expression. The Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) receives funding from a variety of public and private partners to serve artists, arts organizations, schools and residents throughout Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties. (Photo credit, Phototainment)
Portland Opera receives a $5,000 cash prize for their innovative partnership with Portland State University.
From Portland General Electric: Verlea Briggs, Bill Tierney, Kimberly Howard, Jim Piro, Taaj Middleton, Kregg Arntson; and Kristel Wissel from the Portland Timbers
John Goodwin of the Portland Trail Blazers with emcee La’Tevin Alexander Ellis. John received the Outstanding Volunteer award for his board service with the Portland Art Museum.
John Goodwin was nominated by the Portland Art Museum. Here’s a video about his, “Extraordinary Service to the Arts.”
Attendees enjoyed a performance by Members Only, the Kaiser Permanente 80s cover band
Katharine Coakley, the President of the Columbia Trust Company said, “As a long-time sponsor of this breakfast, I was thrilled to see the continued success of such an important program that celebrates the intersection of business and the arts. For those of us in business, it is too easy to forget the critical impact that we can make on our arts community and partners. ”
Miguel Elias, of MEK Design was honored for his In-Kind donations. He was Nominated by Young Audiences.
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TOP CORPORATE DONORS TO THE ARTS
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Umpqua Bank
Portland General Electric
U.S. Bank
Wells Fargo
NW Natural
The Boeing Company
Morel Ink
KeyBank
Stoel Rives
TOP WORK FOR ART CAMPAIGNS
Portland General Electric
The Standard
NW Natural
Burgerville
State of Oregon
KeyBank
ZGF Architects
OHSU
City of Portland
Portland Timbers
From RACC:
The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) receives funding from a variety of public and private partners to serve artists, arts organizations, schools and residents throughout Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties. RACC provides grants for artists, nonprofit organizations and schools; manages an internationally acclaimed public art program; raises money and awareness for the arts through workplace giving; convenes forums, networking events and other community gatherings; provides workshops and other forms of technical assistance for artists; and oversees a program to integrate arts and culture into the standard curriculum in public schools throughout the region through “The Right Brain Initiative.” RACC current and past Annual Reports
Vision:
An environment in which arts and culture flourish and prosper.
Mission:
To enrich our communities through arts and culture.
Core Values:
We value freedom of artistic and cultural expression as a fundamental human right. We value a diversity of artistic and cultural experiences. We value a community in which everyone can participate in arts and culture. We value a community that celebrates and supports its artists, and its arts and cultural organizations. We value arts and culture as key elements in creating desirable places to live, work and visit.
Programs and Services:
RACC provides service in five key areas:
Through advocacy, RACC helps build support for a strong arts and culture community.
RACC grants provide artists and arts organizations with financial support.
Our nationally-acclaimed public art program integrates a wide range of art in public places. RACC manages Percent for Art programs for the City of Portland and Multnomah County.
RACC provides other community services, including workshops for artists, organizational consulting, and a variety of printed and electronic resources.
RACC supports arts education by directly funding artists residencies in schools and is working on a comprehensive solution to provide integrated Arts Education learning for every student in the region.
Portland, December 20th, 2013. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) has awarded $661,543 in project grants for calendar year 2014, including 60 grants to nonprofit organizations and schools, and 88 individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. This sum is 10.7% less than RACC awarded for project grants last year, attributable primarily to across-the-board cuts from the City of Portland, RACC’s largest funding source. Clackamas County, Washington County, Multnomah County, Metro, and Work for Art also help fund these project grants.
With applications at an all-time high, this year’s grants were especially competitive – only 42% of all requests were fully or partially funded. Even so, many individual artists were successful in securing RACC funds for the first time – 60% of all funded artists and 20% of all funded organizations this cycle are receiving their first RACC project grant.
Fifty-eight volunteers served on 14 different panels organized by discipline. Most (93%) served as a RACC panelist for the first time, and 38% identified as non-Caucasian and/or multicultural. Guided by staff during the months of October, November and December, these volunteers evaluated 134 proposals based on artistic merit, audience development and financial accountability, and forwarded their final recommendations to the RACC board of directors, which approved the grants on December 18.
First-time grant recipients David Ornette Cherry, a jazz and world music composer, will integrate storytelling, visual arts installation, and his Organic Nation band into a music performance; Anthony Hudson (aka Carla Rossi) will host a monologue and song-driven cabaret utilizing storytelling, music, dance, video and drag to tell the story of Weimar Germany juxtaposed against contemporary America; and playwright Deborah Rodney will further develop her original musical play for youth, “Bully the Kid,” through a series of community readings.
Badass Theatre Company received their first RACC project grant to support an upcoming production of Sans Merci by Johnna Adams. Colored Pencils Art and Culture Council plans to develop a series of events in partnership with Multnomah County libraries to promote local authors and ESL students from diverse communities. The Northwest Animation Festival will use its first award to showcase the breadth of animation for NW audiences, and The Projects Festival will present workshops, panels and performances with experimental artists working in comics.
The Art Gym in Clackamas County will feature a major exhibition and publication for Vanessa Renwick, and Christopher Mooney will exhibit his large scale portraits depicting workers on the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Willamette River Bridge.
Washington County residents will see a new round of Ten Tiny Dances presented by the Beaverton Arts Commission and new mosaic pavers created by the community with artist Lynn Adamo installed at the Shute Park Library in Hillsboro.
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 Laura Heit for a hand drawn animated installation and film titled “Two Ways Down.”
“RACC has been working hard to reach out and collaborate with new artists and new artistic communities in the region, and I believe that this fantastic slate of upcoming projects reflects that commitment,” Eloise Damrosch, executive director of RACC. “We are looking forward to another year of creation and innovation, and we will continue evolving our process and procedures to ensure that we are supporting a diverse array of artists and organizations in our community.”
A complete listing of grants appears below, and summaries of each grant are available at www.racc.org/2014projectgrants.
Note: (*) denotes Clackamas County applicants, and (**) denotes Washington County based applicants. All other applicants are based in Multnomah County.
Individual Artist
Category/Discipline
Amount
Lynn Adamo **
Community Participation
$ 3,947
Andrew C. Anderson Furgeson
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,400
Yulia Arakelyan
Dance/Movement
$ 5,675
David Bee
Media Arts
$ 4,500
Heather Lee Birdsong
Visual Arts
$ 3,041
Paul Cavanagh
Literature
$ 4,973
Meshi Chavez
Dance/Movement
$ 3,404
David Ornette Cherry
Music
$ 4,500
Taiga Christie
Community Participation
$ 3,759
Krista Connerly
Visual Arts
$ 4,500
Tyler Corbett
Visual Arts
$ 4,230
Lori Damiano
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,129
Zackery C. Denfeld
Social Practice
$ 6,000
Steven Doughton
Media Arts
$ 4,798
Melanie Flood
Visual Arts
$ 4,421
Jack T. Gabel
Music
$ 5,870
Jeff Gierer
Community Participation
$ 5,100
Damien Gilley
Visual Arts
$ 4,784
Daniel J. Glendening
Visual Arts
$ 5,320
Cheryl Green
Media Arts
$ 4,600
Michael Griggs
Theatre
$ 6,000
Stacey Hallal
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,350
Jo Hamilton
Visual Arts
$ 4,232
Allie Hankins
Dance/Movement
$ 4,336
Wayne Harrel
Theatre
$ 2,194
Jen Harrison
Music
$ 5,686
Laura Heit
Multi-Discipline
$ 3,662
Laura Heit
Multi-Discipline
$ 2,500
Hector Hernandez
Community Participation
$ 4,309
Justin Hocking
Community Participation
$ 4,035
Tahni Holt
Dance/Movement
$ 5,150
Kurtis Hough
Media Arts
$ 5,100
Anthony Hudson
Multi-Discipline
$ 2,866
Laura Hughes
Visual Arts
$ 5,168
Linda Hutchins
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,800
Lawrence Johnson
Media Arts
$ 5,700
Evan La Londe
Visual Arts
$ 2,805
Mark LaPierre
Theatre
$ 3,013
Jeff Leake
Arts-In-Schools
$ 3,788
Waylon Lenk
Literature
$ 2,778
Ellen Lesperance
Visual Arts
$ 2,883
Alain LeTourneau
Media Arts
$ 5,905
Brian Lindstrom
Community Participation
$ 4,800
Gabriel Liston
Visual Arts
$ 1,588
Joaquin Lopez **
Multi-Discipline
$ 3,216
Dana Lynn Louis
Visual Arts
$ 5,100
Anna Magruder
Visual Arts
$ 2,986
Susannah Mars *
Theatre
$ 4,204
Jim McGinn
Dance/Movement
$ 5,400
Anita Menon **
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,328
Stephen Miller
Multi-Discipline
$ 3,071
Renee Mitchell
Community Participation
$ 5,355
Christopher Mooney *
Visual Arts
$ 4,500
Emily Myers
Visual Arts
$ 3,285
Sarah Nagy
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,100
Motoya Nakamura
Visual Arts
$ 5,430
Loren Nelson **
Visual Arts
$ 4,025
Caroline Oakley
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,640
Chris G. Parkhurst
Media Arts
$ 5,320
Susan E. Peck
Community Participation
$ 3,998
Roger Peet
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,310
Andrew Phoenix
Theatre
$ 4,708
Ryan Pierce
Visual Arts
$ 5,236
Tracy Pitts
Media Arts
$ 4,309
Melissa Reeser Poulin
Literature
$ 4,423
Alicia Jo Rabins
Music
$ 3,400
Wendy Red Star
Visual Arts
$ 4,313
Vanessa Olivia Renwick
Media Arts
$ 4,930
Jen Delos Reyes
Literature
$ 3,881
Dmae Roberts
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,800
Deborah Rodney
Community Participation
$ 3,990
Danielle Ross
Dance/Movement
$ 4,654
Paul X. Rutz
Visual Arts
$ 4,280
Julie Sabatier
Media Arts
$ 4,304
Tracy Schlapp
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,893
Stephanie Simek
Visual Arts
$ 4,220
Anne Sorce
Theatre
$ 5,092
Dao Strom
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,850
Marianna C. Thielen
Music
$ 4,570
Lorenzo Triburgo
Visual Arts
$ 5,301
Leslie Tucker
Visual Arts
$ 2,879
Philip Van Scotter
Media Arts
$ 4,256
Holcombe Waller
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,500
Shu-Ju Wang
Visual Arts
$ 4,729
Damaris Webb
Theatre
$ 4,223
James Westby **
Media Arts
$ 5,100
Kelly Williams
Community Participation
$ 5,990
Reeva Wortel
Visual Arts
$ 5,015
Erin Yanke
Media Arts
$ 5,038
Organization
Category/Discipline
Amount
45th Parallel
Music
$ 5,132
Badass Theatre Company
Theatre
$ 4,680
Beaverton Arts Commission **
Presenting
$ 5,415
Blackfish Gallery
Visual Arts
$ 3,825
Boom Arts
Theatre
$ 3,686
Cascadia Composers
Music
$ 3,000
Colored Pencils Art and Culture Council
Community Participation
$ 3,071
Community Alliance of Tenants
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,630
Conduit Dance, Inc.
Dance/Movement
$ 6,000
Creative Music Guild
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,463
Creative Science School PTA
Arts-In-Schools
$ 2,588
Curious Comedy Theater
Theatre
$ 5,520
Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center
Visual Arts
$ 5,700
Estacada Arts Commission *
Community Participation
$ 5,369
Estacada Together *
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,700
Fear No Music
Music
$ 4,500
George Middle School
Arts-In-Schools
$ 2,250
Grout Elementary
Arts-In-Schools
$ 4,400
In Mulieribus
Music
$ 4,294
India Cultural Association **
Community Participation
$ 4,350
Irvington School PTA
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,100
Jewish Theatre Collaborative
Arts-In-Schools
$ 2,250
Ko-Falen Cultural Center
Arts-In-Schools
$ 1,548
Kukatonon
Community Participation
$ 4,500
Live on Stage
Theatre
$ 4,391
Los Portenos **
Theatre
$ 4,503
Media Rites
Media Arts
$ 4,388
MetroArts, Inc.
Music
$ 4,229
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO)
Community Participation
$ 4,500
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Folk Arts
$ 4,500
My Voice Music
Community Participation
$ 5,288
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Clackamas County (NAMI-CC) *
Portland, September 12, 2013. In honor of National Arts in Education Week, The Right Brain Initiative has announced that six new public school partners are joining the program for the 2013-14 school year. Between September and June, the integrated arts program will bring music, dance, theatre, visual and media arts to 14,000 K-8 students in 49 schools and six school districts throughout the Portland metro area. This total is up from nearly 11,500 students served last year.
Significantly this year, the Gresham-Barlow School District becomes the first district to involve Right Brain with every elementary school in its district. The Right Brain Initiative entered classrooms in 2009, with a vision of bringing the arts to every K-8 classroom in the region. Gresham-Barlow’s commitment to the program is a powerful landmark in pursuit of Right Brain’s goal of arts education equity.
Right Brain welcomes the following new schools to its list of partners in 2013-14:
· Deep Creek Elementary (Gresham-Barlow School District)
· Hall Elementary (Gresham-Barlow School District)
· West Gresham Elementary (Gresham-Barlow School District)
· Bilquist Elementary (North Clackamas Schools)
· Duncan Elementary (North Clackamas Schools)
· Boise-Eliot K-8 School (Portland Public Schools)
Districts invest $15 per child at each partner school with the program. Every district dollar is leveraged more than four times by other funding sources. Public funding partners include the City of Portland, the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. Private funders include The Collins Foundation, The James E & Marion F. Miller Foundation, the PGE Foundation, Bank of America, and many other businesses, foundations and individuals listed at TheRightBrainInitiative.org/funding. Right Brain’s ultimate target is to serve approximately 110,000 K-8 students in 240 schools and 25 districts.
Read more about Right Brain’s successes in its 2013 Progress Report, released this week. In the 2012-13 school year, 1,127 school staff collaborated with Right Brain teaching artists to design 206 classroom experiences that integrated math with movement, social studies with film, and much more. Download the full report at http://bit.ly/RightBrainProgress2013.
About The Right Brain Initiative
The Right Brain Initiative is a sustainable partnership of public schools, local government, foundations, businesses and the cultural community that launched its programming in Portland area classrooms in January 2009. The program’s vision is to transform learning for all children in the Portland tri-county area through the arts, creativity, innovation and whole-brain thinking. The Right Brain Initiative is a project of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington serves as Implementation Partner. Read more online at TheRightBrainInitiative.org.
About the Regional Arts & Culture Council
RACC is a nonprofit arts services organization serving the Portland metropolitan area, including Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. In addition to serving as the managing partner for The Right Brain Initiative, RACC provides grants for artists, arts organizations, schools and other community-based arts projects; conducts workplace giving for arts and culture (“Work for Art”) and other advocacy efforts; provides workshops and other forms of technical assistance; shares printed and web-based resources for artists; and integrates artwork into public places. Read more online at racc.org.
Portland, August 1st, 2013. The Regional Arts & Culture Council announced on Thursday evening that the seventh annual Work for Art campaign raised $761,359, bringing its seven-year total to $4,686,681 raised for local arts organizations. More than 1,900 donors participated in the campaign that began on July 1, 2012 and ended on June 30, 2013, mostly through payroll deduction and other gifts in the workplace.
The campaign results were delivered by Jeff Harvey, president and CEO of Burgerville, at a special reception Thursday evening in the KeyBank Club at Jeld-Wen Field. Harvey was the honorary chair of the 2012-13 campaign, and will lead the 2013-14 campaign as well, with co-chair Mike Golub, COO of the Portland Timbers.
“It is a great thing to celebrate arts and culture in our communities,” said Harvey in thanking all those who participated in the campaign. “In today’s business world… there’s no such thing as too much creativity or too much innovation. Investing in a vital arts community is the same as committing to deep and long-term investment in the vitality and innovation of business.”
More than 75 participating companies were acknowledged on Thursday evening, including the top ten Work for Art campaigns in 2012-13:
1. Portland General Electric
2. NW Natural
3. Burgerville
4. The Standard
5. OHSU
6. State of Oregon
7. City of Portland
8. Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects
9. Multnomah County
10. Stoel Rives
Portland General Electric was the top campaign for the second year in a row, increasing their campaign by 6% for a total of $83,530; President and CEO Jim Piro accepted the company’s award and said that PGE employees were enjoying more arts activities thanks to the Arts Card, a benefit of giving to Work for Art. Jack Graves, Chief Cultural Officer at Burgerville, accepted the “top participation” award for the sustainable restaurant chain, which had the most employee donors (410) of any company. Portland Center Stage was acknowledged for raising the most money among nonprofit organizations ($2,442); the award was accepted by development director Charlie Frasier.
The results reported on Thursday night are down 7.7% from the 2011-12 campaign total (and all-time high) of $824,648. A variety of factors contributed to the downturn, including general anxieties about the economy last fall, and typical fierce competition for contributions during a presidential election cycle. Work for Art leaders remain confident that the campaign will rebound in 2013-14; already several new companies have signed up to participate this year, including Cambia Health Solutions, Gerding Edlen, and Tri-Met. Other company leaders who would like to learn about conducting an employee giving campaign for the arts and culture sector are invited to contact Kathryn Jackson, Work for Art Manager at 503-823-5424 or [email protected].
Work for Art is a program of The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), which distributes 100% of all proceeds to more than 100 arts and culture organizations based in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties through a competitive grant application process. Although Work for Art is primarily a workplace giving program, anyone can participate by making a donation online at workforart.org. The strength of the campaign has been in its ability to accumulate a high volume of smaller gifts; most donations are $150 or less, and $60 is the amount most commonly donated. Donors who pledge $60 or more receive an Arts Card. Most donations are matched dollar-for-dollar by a matching challenge fund that includes contributions from The City of Portland, Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties, the Firstenburg Family Foundation, Sunshine Dairy Foods, and other private donors.
The 2013-14 campaign is now underway; the goal is to raise $775,000 by June 30, 2014.
Portland, July 9th, 2013. Artist and performer Anthony Hudson, who identifies as a “queer Portlander, a native Oregonian, and a Grand Ronde Indian,” is opening up a pubic photo booth at the Portland Building Installation Space. The exhibition is part of a series organized by the Regional Arts and Culture Counsel for advanced students in fine art a Portland Building. The community based project by Anthony Hudson, will be open through August 2nd and with it, Hudson hopes to create a series of alternate Portlandias that embody the diversity that exists in Portland today.
Viewing Hours & Location: 8 am to 5 pm, Monday – Friday. The Portland Building is located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland. Admission is always free. Queering Portlandia runs through August 2nd.
Project Background:Despite her notoriety and our love for her, Portlandia is irrefutably rooted in European sculptural tradition. The 35 foot high hammered copper statue that graces the façade of the Portland Building depicts the image of a classical female figure with European features. In that sense she represents only a portion our city’s diverse population. “Queering is essentially to make something queer, different, to make it anti-oppressive; queering here is to make Portlandia accessible again, giving an underprivileged audience a chance to recreate Portlandia in their own image.”
During set hours each week (noon to 2 pm Monday – Thursday, or by appointment via [email protected]), Hudson will transform the Installation Space into a photo booth/performance set complete with a selection of costumes and props. The project is open to anyone who wishes to take part, participants are invited to pose or perform on camera to create their own version of Portlandia. In the artist’s words “Queering Portlandia will allow for a multitude of new Portlandias: Portlandia as a person of color, Portlandia as queer, Portlandia as a person with disabilities, Portlandia as a true, living Portlander. Queering Portlandia will demonstrate our community’s commitment to providing visibility, safety and opportunity to all its citizens.”
About the Artist: Anthony Hudson is an Oregon native and received his BFA in Intermedia from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2013. His work draws on mythology, theatre, popular culture, and critical theory; he has been featured in Hand2Mouth Theatre’s Risk/Reward Festival, Conduit Dance’s Dance+ Festival, and Performance Works NW’s Richard Foreman Mini-Festivals. Hudson is perhaps best known as Portland’s drag clown Carla Rossi, “an immortal trickster whose attempts at hegemonic realness almost always result in fantastic failure and revelations of her own mutability and vulnerability.”
About the Installation Space: Each year the Portland Building Installation Space series reserves several exhibition opportunities for advanced students in fine art. The format and presentation requirements for the student installations are identical to those for established professional artists, the Regional Arts & Culture Council created this separate eligibility category to help introduce emerging talents to the world of public art. Anthony Hudson is the 3rd student artist to present work this season.
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