The Regional Arts & Culture Council announced today that a total of $412,895 will be awarded to artists, nonprofit organizations, and schools in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties as part of RACC’s competitive “Project Grant” program.
Support comes from various sources – first and foremost from the City of Portland. Multnomah County, Clackamas County, Washington County and Metro also provide significant funding, along with Work for Art, RACC’s ever-growing workplace giving program. This year’s project grant budget was $50,000 less than 2008-09 due to shortfalls in hotel/motel tax revenues that are meant to fund arts-related projects in neighborhoods.
“Now more than ever, it is essential that we invest in the arts,” said Eloise Damrosch, Executive Director of RACC. “Artistic projects like these make our community a better place, and they help support the growing number of creative individuals and organizations in our region.”
Among the projects that will occur in schools, libraries, theaters, concert halls and galleries next year:
• Opera Theatre Oregon will present a new operatic soundtrack to “Hercules Vs. Vampires”
• POV Dance will create a new architecturally-based dance in the Ford Building • Theatre in the Grove will offer their Children's After School Theatre (CAST) program in Forest Grove
• Artists Devon Allen, M.J. Cody, Carlos Alexis Cruz, Alain LeTourneau, Melody Owen, and Joe Schneider will produce new works • Artists Kazuyo Ito, Larry Johnson, Melanya Helene, Hunt Holman, and Joseph Sneed will engage students and other community members in a variety of artistic projects
• Several community festivals also received support this year, including the Portland Bastille Festival, the Disability Pride Art and Culture Festival and the Cascade Festival of African Films
To read more go to http://www.racc.org/about/regional-arts-culture-council-awards-412895-92-artistic-projects-2010
