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Libby Unthank Tower, a Eugene graphic design and marketing professional in her second term on the Oregon Arts Commission, succeeded Julie Vigeland as Commission Chair on Jan. 1. Christopher Acebo, Associate Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, is now Vice Chair and Vigeland serves as Immediate Past Chair. Elections took place at the Dec. 4, 2015, Commission meeting in Portland.
Salem, Ore. – Art as a means to address community need is reflected in 30 Oregon projects awarded $190,000 in 2016 Arts Build Communities grants from the Oregon Arts Commission.
Vacant downtown storefronts become celebrations of community in Corvallis; Fishtrap inspires 1,700 in Wallowa County to read Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” before engaging in discussions, events and activities about rural isolation and community; and in Portland Sisters of the Road will produce "On the Ground," a short film exploring the history and root causes of homelessness in Portland.
Natalie Ball, a Chiloquin-based artist working across media, is the 2016 recipient of the Oregon Arts Commission’s honorary Joan Shipley Award. Ball leads a group of 13 Oregon artists selected from a pool of more than 160 applicants from 27 Oregon cities for the Arts Commission’s 2016 Individual Artist Fellowships.
The 2016 fellowships, awarded to artists from Portland, Eugene, Corvallis and Chiloquin, support artists working in visual arts and design and include small financial stipends.
In the first of three rounds of 2016 Career Opportunity Grants, the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation have awarded $54,649 to 18 artists for career development projects. The awards include $25,649 from the Oregon Arts Commission and $29,000 in supplemental funding for six artists through a partnership with The Ford Family Foundation. Individual grants range from $641 to $7,500.
Salem, OR – The application process for 2016 Oregon Arts Commission individual artists fellowships in the visual arts and design is now open. Applications will be accepted via www.callforentry.org until 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015.
A two-year pilot grant program designed to provide operating support to arts organizations with budgets under $150,000 is now open at the Oregon Arts Commission. Applications for the first round of funding will be accepted until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at http://oregon.culturegrants.org/. Eligibility is limited to organizations that have operated as an IRS recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit for two years or more.
In the third and final round of fiscal year 2015 Career Opportunity Grants, the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation have awarded $54,699 to 21 artists for career development projects. The awards include $27,749 from the Oregon Arts Commission and $26,950 in supplemental funding for seven artists through a partnership with The Ford Family Foundation. Individual grants range from $439 to $8,592.
"Proscenium," an installation comprised of thousands of sweeping lengths of tinted stainless steel ball chain hanging in catenry curve formations, is now suspended in the three story volume of Lincoln Performance Hall’s south atrium.
The artwork was designed and fabricated by Ball-Nogues Studio, a Los Angeles based collaboration operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design and lead by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues. The project was commissioned through Oregon’s Percent for Art in Public Places Program, administered by the Oregon Arts Commission.
Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.
In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the NEA will make a $30,000 award to the Oregon Folklife Network to continue its ongoing statewide Folklife Survey which began in 2013. The NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in this funding round.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu has announced 69 Our Town awards totaling almost $5 million in the program's fifth year of funding, including a $75,000 to the city of Milton-Freewater in Oregon. The NEA received 275 applications for Our Town this year and will make grants ranging from $25,000 to $200,000.
