News Releases

An archive of news releases detailing the Arts Commission's developments, actions, and impact throughout Oregon. 

$175,000 AWARDED IN 31 ARTS BUILD COMMUNITIES GRANTS

2/20/2019 | Accessibility, | Community Development, | Economic Impact, | Grants, | For Arts Organizations

Salem, Ore. – Using the arts as a means of addressing community need is at the heart of 31 projects awarded $175,000 by the Oregon Arts Commission’s Arts Build Communities grant program for FY2019.

The Arts Build Communities program targets broad geographic impact and arts access for underserved audiences in Oregon. More than half of this year’s awards go to communities outside of the Portland area.

PDF icon FY2019 Arts Build Communities Grants final.pdf

Eight Grants Announced to Support the Acquisition of Artworks by Oregon Artists in the 10th year of The Ford Family Foundation Acquisition Support

2/19/2019 | Visual Arts, | For Individual Artists, | For Arts Organizations

Salem, Oregon – The Oregon Arts Commission is excited to announce eight grants made through The Ford Family Foundation’s Art Acquisition Fund, which supports our state’s collecting visual arts institutions, the artists whose work they are able to acquire, and the public who will be guaranteed access to these important works in perpetuity. Funds were awarded by a panel of art professionals to: the City of Halsey, Coos Art Museum, High Desert Museum, Portland Art Museum, Portland State University, Reed College, The Schneider Museum of Art, and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at University of Oregon. More details about each artist and work are listed below.

PDF icon FY2019 Art Acquisition Grants Announced final.pdf

Intisar Abioto’s “Black Legend, Black, Oregon” to be exhibited in the Governor’s Office Feb. 4 – March 29

1/25/2019 | Public Art, | Visual Arts

Salem, Oregon – Portland artist Intisar Abioto will exhibit “Black Legend, Black, Oregon” in the Governor’s Office of the Capitol Building in Salem from Feb. 4 to March 29.

“Black Legend, Black, Oregon” explores the lore and living legend of black presence in Oregon through photographs of artists, elders, poets, historians, luminaries and beloved community members. Works in the exhibition include images from the artist’s ongoing photographic endeavor and exploratory blog The Black Portlanders as well as photographs taken around Oregon for the Urban League of Portland’s “State of Black Oregon” 2015 publication. She has been photographing and writing about people of African descent in Oregon since 2013.

PDF icon 2019 Intisar_Abioto_Gov_Office_Release_final.pdf

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