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Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community

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Daniel X. O'Neil
Daniel X. O'Neil

The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) presented its 2009 annual report to the City of Portland. The report summarized RACC's activities over the previous year, including serving over 80 arts organizations and hundreds of schoolchildren. It also discussed RACC's advocacy efforts to secure public funding for arts and culture, including maintaining funding levels from the City of Portland, Metro, and surrounding counties. RACC works to leverage the City's investment in arts and culture through other public and private partnerships to benefit the entire region.

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V IIIÞ Regional Arts & Culture Council 1OB NW 9th Avenue, Suite 3OO Portland, OR 97209-3318 503.823.5111 www.racc.org PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL Date: March 10, 2010 To: Mayor Sam Adams, City of Portland From: Bloise Damrosch, RACC Executive Director Subject: Accept the 2OO9 State of the Arts Presentation is pleased to deliver its annual "State of the Arts" presentation In accordance with our contract with the City, RACC and share the many ways in which RACC continues to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of community life. In 2009, RACC served more than 80 Portland-based arts organizations, hundreds of schoolchildren and their families, and countless artists of every discipline. RACC works hand in hand with the Mayor's office and other government partners to advance the goals of Actfor ArÍ, the region's five year action plan for arts and culture. Public opinion research shows strong citizen support for a long-term dedicated funding solution for arts and culture, and we remain committed to helping the Creative Advocacy Network respond to this demand. RACC also continues to demonstrate an extraordinary ability to leverage the City's investment with funds from other public and private partners, and our entire region benefits as a result. Even in a challenging economic environment, and with less public funding that most other creative cities, RACC finds the resources and builds the partnerships necessary to make a significant impact in our community. For example, our ever-growing workplace giving program, seeded with funds from the City of Portland and now three counties, recruits hundreds of new arts donors every year, which helps sustain our vital arts organizations. The City is also helping us attract hundreds of thousands of dollars from the private sector to expand the Right Brain Initiative, bringing us closer to our vision of guaranteeing arts education for every K-8 student in the region in the next five years. The City of Portland can feel confident that RACC and the arts community are working together to turn the City's limited investments into powerful results for our community. Investments in arts and culture continue to fuel creativity in our classrooms, spark innovation in our companies, stimulate economic activity, and sustain a high quality of life for our residents. comm il accept the RACC "State of the Arts" report. Bxecutive Director TO THB COUNCIL Mayor Sam Adams concurs with the findings of the RACC Executive Director, and RECOMMENDS: That the Council accept the report. Respeclfully submitted, Mayor, City of Portland pRrNrED oN 30% posr-coNsuMER REcvcleo elern {þ
2009 report to the community
BodyVox, Foot Opera Files, (Photo: Michael Shea, Polara Studios): General Support
Welcome Reflecting on this past year of financial challenges, we are struck by the resilience, creativity and determination of people in our region. last year as we wrote this letter we faced an uncertain future and RAcc vowed to do everything possible to support artists and arts organizations through this tough time. While the future remains murky, we have positive things to report from this past year – details of which run through this annual report. Thanks to enlightened and committed elected leaders, RAcc held its entire grants program whole and supplemented it with Work for Art dollars, which increased by 19%. People in our region care and they give. The Transit mall reopened with 10 previously sited artworks cleaned, conserved and re-installed in new locations. Joining them were 14 new artworks, creating a sizable public collection of Northwest sculptures. RAcc was delighted to partner with Trimet throughout this four-year undertaking and will be caretakers of all the public art on the mall. Americans for the Arts recently announced that RAcc’s Public Art Program is one of the top five award-winning programs nationally, which makes us very proud. The Right Brain Initiative continues to grow. All 20 original schools returned and Portland Public Schools was able to add three new ones. We anticipate having ever-greater evidence of the value of integrated arts learning at the end of this first full year of programming. We thank all of our partners, funders and participants for this growing success. The creative Advocacy Network was launched, and its ranks of supporters—including elected officials, corporate leaders, artists, educators, arts organizations and individuals—continue to grow as we work toward our goal of $15-20 million in new and dedicated arts funding. In hard economic times polling once again showed that arts accessibility and arts education are highly www.racc.org valued by regional voters. Please become active in this crucial movement. let’s all keep participating, supporting and doing all we can to ensure that the arts and artists flourish. regional Arts & culture council carole morse, Board Chair eloise Damrosch, Executive Director 2009 report to the community 108 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 300 Portland, oR 97209-3318 503.823.5111 • 503.823.5432 fax info@racc.org • www.racc.org 3
oUR Role The Regional Arts & culture council (RAcc) is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) arts service organization that works to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of community life. RAcc’s service area includes more than 1.5 million residents, 250 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations and www.racc.org countless artists of every discipline in the Portland, oregon metropolitan region including clackamas, regional Arts & culture council multnomah and Washington counties. “In times of war and sacrifice, the arts … remind us to sing and to laugh and to live. In times of plenty, they challenge our conscience and implore us to remember the least among us. 2009 report to the community In moments of division or doubt, they compel us to see the common values that we share; the ideals to which we aspire, even if we sometimes fall short. In days of hardship, they renew our hope that brighter days are still ahead. So let’s never forget that art strengthens America. And that’s why we’re making sure that America strengthens its arts.” --President Barack obama 4
ADvocAcy p.6 GRANTS p.10 PUBlIc ART p.20 SeRvIce p.26 eDUcATIoN p.28 RAcc FINANcIAl SUmmARy p.32 coNTRIBUTIoNS p.34 volUNTeeRS p.36 BoARD memBeRS AND STAFF p.38 Blue Sky Gallery, Outcasts of Slovakia Photograph by Julie Denesha: General Support
ADvocAcy RAcc works to build support and resources for a strong arts and culture community. We advocate for increased community participation and investment in the arts. The following are some of The advocacy efforTs underTaken in 2009: PUBlIc FUNDING vISIBIlITy local arTs funding AND collABoRATIoN RACC, Business for Culture & the Arts (BCA) and the Creative recogniTion of The arTs Advocacy Network (CAN) gathered wide community support to RACC celebrates the importance of the arts all year long, ensure that arts funding was maintained at current levels in all especially in March for Oregon Arts Education Month and in jurisdictions, including the City of Portland, Metro, and Clackamas, October for National Arts & Humanities Month. Multnomah and Washington Counties. RACC also secured public financing from the City of Portland to support the new Creative green gifT guide Advocacy Network and to expand The Right Brain Initiative in RACC supported a collaboration within the arts community to 2009-10. give tickets, memberships and other performing arts experiences as part of a waste-free holiday season. The Green Gift Guide was dedicaTed funding distributed to more than 15,000 area residents and promoted RACC is working closely with CAN to advance the goal of securing through local retailers, schools, non-profits and online at long-term, dedicated funding for arts and culture in the region within www.ecometro.com. www.racc.org the next one-five years. hulahub sTaTe arTs funding RACC supported the creation of a new social networking site and RACC supports the growth and development of the Oregon Cultural iPhone app for arts and culture. Developed by Portland-based Trust, a permanent endowment to increase cultural participation ticketing company Box Office Tickets Inc, HulaHub provides a regional Arts & culture council in the arts, heritage and humanities across the state. In the spring single consolidated calendar of events, organizations, profiles, of 2009, the Oregon legislature “recaptured” $1.8 million from the reviews, ticketing and blogs. Artists and arts organizations can Cultural Trust’s license plate revenues to fill a budget gap. RACC enter their events into the system for free, and visitors can search rallied constituents to protest this action. Although the legislature for venues by type of performance space, capacity and other proceeded with the maneuver, arts advocates successfully raised the parameters. Online at www.hulahub.com. profile of the Cultural Trust and gained new legislators’ commitments to support the Trust in the future. granTmakers in The arTs RACC hosted a series of meetings with local foundations and arts naTional arTs funding organizations in its continuing efforts to advocate for increased In partnership with Americans for the Arts (AFTA), RACC sent private investments in arts and culture. Janet Brown, GIA’s 2009 report to the community Action Alerts regarding Congressional action on arts funding, executive director, visited Portland on December 8, 2009. including National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and federal arts education arT spark programs. RACC also lobbied for $50 million in arts stimulus funding RACC coordinated 12 Art Spark gatherings in 2009 that were to be included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; attended by more than 600 artists and arts supporters. These the NEA and the Oregon Arts Commission have since distributed monthly gatherings held at venues throughout the city give artists these funds to support jobs at nonprofit arts organizations across the the opportunity to meet each other and learn more about the local country, including $402,000 to organizations in RACC’s service area. arts community. Online at www.portlandartspark.com. 6 From Portland Art Museum’s PNCA at 100 Exhibition; Feast of Stephen by Lucinda Parker (detail) 1980, Collection of Arlene and Harold Schnitzer: General Support
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Hollione Foundation WoRk FoR ART Intel JP Morgan Chase Bank* Kaiser Permanente* Work for Art is a collaborative fundraising, advocacy and outreach KPMG effort that raises money and awareness for more than 80 regional The Little Red Hen Foundation arts and culture organizations each year, primarily through employee McClenahan Bruer Communications charitable giving campaigns and other unique partnerships with Metro local businesses in the region. The program cultivates new arts Norris, Beggs & Simpson Companies donors and educates employees on the vital role that arts and culture North Clackamas Schools organizations play in building strong communities. ODS Companies* Work for Art raised a total of $665,863 in the annual campaign Oregon Anesthesiology Group ending June 30, 2009—a 19% increase from the 2007-08 campaign. Oregon Ballet Theatre This total includes gifts from workplace giving campaigns, Oregon Children’s Theatre corporations, foundations, individuals and a public matching Oregon Health & Science University challenge fund. Oregon Museum of Science & Industry Pacific University Top 10 workplace giving campaigns in 2008-09 Perkins Coie NW Natural* Pop Art* State of Oregon Agencies & Universities Port of Portland Portland General Electric* Portland Art Museum Zimmer Gunsul Frasca* Portland Business Alliance City of Portland Portland Center Stage Sunshine Dairy Foods* The Portland Clinic The Standard* Portland Development Commission Burgerville Portland Opera Multnomah County Portland Public Schools SmartForest Ventures Profile Theatre Regional Arts & Culture Council www.racc.org addiTional parTicipaTing companies Retired Associates of PSU and organizaTions Sinju Restaurant Aldrich Kilbride & Tatone Stoel Rives Axium* Tonkon Torp LLP Boeing Company* Travel Portland Boora Architects regional Arts & culture council Umpqua Bank Bullivant Houser Bailey Vernier Software & Technology Business for Culture & the Arts Washington County City of Beaverton Wells Fargo Bank City of Lake Oswego Write Around Portland Clackamas County Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington Davis Wright Tremaine Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue (*) denotes companies that match their employees’ contributions Entrepreneuers Foundation of the Northwest Far West Fibers Federal Workers public maTching challenge funds 2009 report to the community First Independent Bank* provided by City of Portland Freeman Foundation Clackamas County Gales Creek Insurance* Multnomah County Gerding Edlen Development* Washington County Hewlett-Packard* 8
Gregg Kantor, president and CEO of NW Natural, is the Honorary Work for Art also encourages more citizens to participate in arts Chair of the 2009-10 Work for Art campaign, which runs through and culture by providing affordable access to hundreds of arts and June 30, 2010. The goal for the 2009-10 Work for Art campaign culture events in the region. Donors who give $60 or more receive is to raise $675,000, and RACC is working to enlist a total of 100 an Arts Card, which provides 2-for-1 ticket offers for events and participating companies in the program by 2012. performances at more than 50 different arts organizations. Gregg Kantor promotes Work for Art at the 2009 BCA Breakfast of Champions www.racc.org regional Arts & culture council 2009 report to the community 9 Stumptown Stages, Musical performances of The Wiz for the deaf: Project Grant
GRANTS GRANTS To oRGANIzATIoNS GenerAl Support GrAntS help fund the overall mission of profeSSionAl Development GrAntS support an established arts organizations that have minimum budgets of organization’s artistic growth and/or business development. $80,000. opportunity GrAntS provide special, one-time support to project GrAntS help fund specific, one-time projects or Portland-based nonprofit arts organizations. performances that take place in the Portland tri-county area. * Clackamas County-based arts organization ** Washington County-based arts organization (The remainder are Multnomah County-based arts organization) 2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount 3D Center of Art & Photography Professional Development $550 40 Frames Professional Development $1,440 Adelante Mujeres** Folk Arts Project $2,130 Agnieszka Laska Dancers Professional Development $1,568 Multi-Discipline Project $5,400 Alliance Française of Portland Multi-Discipline Project $4,286 Architecture Foundation of Oregon Opportunity Grant $10,000 The Art Gym* Professional Development $1,250 The Art Gym* Visual Arts Project $5,100 Visual Arts Project $6,000 Art on Alberta Presenting Project $6,000 Art Walk Etc. Multi-Discipline Project $4,570 Artists Repertory Theatre General Support $54,732 General Support $53,192 Audubon Society of Portland Visual Arts Project $5,100 A-WOL Dance Collective Multi-Discipline Project $5,463 Professional Development $1,489 www.racc.org The backroom Opportunity Grant $2,000 BaseRoots Theatre Company Theatre Project $3,935 Beaverton Arts Commission** Dance/Movement Project $5,700 Presenting Music Project $4,305 Beaverton Arts Commission** Professional Development $1,500 Beaverton Civic Theatre** Theatre Project $4,208 regional Arts & culture council Blue Sky Gallery General Support $10,696 General Support $10,656 BodyVox General Support $22,694 General Support $21,213 Bouand Dance Company** Professional Development $1,100 BroadArts Theatre Opportunity Grant $5,000 Broadway Rose Theare Company** General Support $30,845 General Support $27,040 Caldera Opportunity Grant $4,500 Cappella Romana, Inc. General Support $10,656 General Support $10,000 Chamber Music Northwest General Support $51,761 General Support $50,287 2009 report to the community Children’s Healing Art Project Visual Arts Project $4,800 Cinema Project Media Arts Project $4,789 Professional Development $909 Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon Theatre Project $3,581 Theatre Project $4,000 Cleveland High School Theatre Project $3,858 Community of Writers Opportunity Grant $30,000 Conduit Dance Opportunity Grant $15,000 Cooper Mountain Elementary** Visual Arts Project $3,924 10 Dance Coalition of Oregon Dance/Movement Project $3,969 The Deep Roots Music Project Multi-Discipline Project $2,448 Students celebrating the Mosaic Garden Mural at Terra Linda Elementary School: Project Grant
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount defunkt theatre Theatre Project $4,445 Theatre Project $4,993 Disability Rights Oregon Theatre Project $5,580 Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center Visual Arts Project $4,240 Visual Arts Project $3,700 Do Jump Movement Theater General Support $27,547 General Support $25,897 Elemental Summer Camp Multi-Discipline Project $3,866 Estacada Area Arts Commission* Multi-Discipline Project $5,273 Presenting Project $5,041 Ethos, Inc. General Support $17,544 General Support $16,530 Fear No Music Professional Development $1,600 Music Project $5,400 Film Action Oregon General Support $19,519 General Support $14,230 Fir Grove Elementary** Visual Arts Project $3,722 First Friday Gallery Guide Professional Development $1,584 Friends of Chamber Music General Support $19,454 General Support $18,225 Friends of Chamber Music Opportunity Grant $10,000 Fuse Theatre Ensemble Opportunity Grant $2,987 German American Society Opportunity Grant $6,400 Hand2Mouth Theatre Opportunity Grant $9,450 Theatre Project $5,238 Hand2Mouth Theatre Theatre Project $4,800 Professional Development $1,025 Hillsboro Community Youth Choir** Professional Development $1,000 Homowo African Arts and Culture General Support $21,006 General Support $20,856 Imago Theatre General Support $28,051 General Support $26,385 Imago Theatre Opportunity Grant $30,000 Independent Publishing Resource Center Media Arts Project $4,752 India Cultural Association Presenting Project $3,868 Presenting Project $4,536 www.racc.org Innovative Housing Inc. Visual Arts Project $5,100 Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Professional Development $725 Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Visual Arts Project $4,540 Jewish Theatre Collaborative Theatre Project $4,712 junk to funk recycled fashion show Professional Development $1,200 regional Arts & culture council Justseeds Visual Arts Project $4,403 Krayon Kids Musical Theater Company* Theatre Project $850 Kukatonon Dance/Movement Project $5,700 Dance/Movement Project $6,000 Lakewood Center for the Arts* General Support $33,425 General Support $25,799 Literary Arts, Inc. General Support $40,877 General Support $39,105 Live On Stage Theatre Project $5,439 Live Wire! General Support $11,314 General Support $9,000 Media, Arts & Technology Institute (MATI) Media Arts Project $4,347 2009 report to the community The Media Project Media Arts Project $5,400 Merlo Station High School/BSD** Visual Arts Project $4,250 MetroArts, Inc. Music Project $4,500 Metropolitan Youth Symphony General Support $28,035 General Support $26,796 Miracle Theatre Group General Support $27,797 General Support $25,955 Multnomah Arts Center Association Visual Arts Project $4,437 Museum of Contemporary Crafts General Support $20,943 General Support $20,943 My Story Visual Arts Project $3,175 12 My Voice Music Music Project $922
2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount New Avenues for Youth Literature Project $3,518 New Century Players* Theatre Project $6,000 Newspace Center for Photography Visual Arts Project $1,058 Northwest Children’s Theater and School General Support $26,433 General Support $22,142 Northwest Children’s Theater and School Opportunity Grant $30,000 Northwest Dance Project General Support $12,314 General Support $10,000 Northwest Film Center Media ArtsProject $4,505 Northwest Photography Archive Visual Arts Project $4,750 Opportunity Grant $15,000 Nowhere Gallery Professional Development $1,800 NW Documentary Arts & Media Professional Development $1,800 Opera Theater Oregon Multi-Discipline Project $4,007 Oregon Ballet Theatre General Support $84,950 General Support $79,697 Oregon Ballet Theatre Opportunity Grant $25,000 Oregon Children’s Theatre General Support $56,592 General Support $54,394 Oregon Crusaders Opportunity Grant $12,500 Oregon Cultural Access (ORCA) Multi-Discipline Project $4,712 Oregon Cultural Access (ORCA) Dance/Movement Project $1,826 Oregon Historical Society Folklife Program Folk Arts Project $4,459 Oregon Jewish Museum Opportunity Grant $9,422 Oregon Potters Association Opportunity Grant $6,500 Oregon Public Broadcasting Opportunity Grant $18,600 Oregon Repertory Singers General Support $26,085 General Support $24,779 Oregon Symphonic Band Professional Development $1,125 www.racc.org Oregon Symphony General Support $141,066 General Support $139,746 Oregon Women’s Caucus for Art Visual Arts Project $4,800 Orlo Opportunity Grant $9,982 Project Grant $4,600 Orlo Literature Project $5,510 Literature Project Oslund + Company/Dance Dance/Movement Project $4,624 regional Arts & culture council Pacific Crest Wind Symphony Opportunity Grant $9,342 Pacific Youth Choir Opportunity Grant $15,360 PassinArt: A Theatre Company Professional Development $1,000 Theatre Project $4,140 The PDX Film Festival Media Arts Project $4,800 PDX Pop Now! Music Project $3,961 Dance Project $5,770 Pendulum Aerial Dance Theatre Professional Development $1,600 PlayWrite Inc. General Support $14,036 General Support $12,230 Portland Actors’ Conservatory General Support $13,295 2009 report to the community Portland Art Museum General Support $191,938 General Support $184,686 The Portland Ballet General Support $16,338 General Support $9,500 Portland Baroque Orchestra General Support $20,804 General Support $19,155 Portland Boychoir Professional Development $1,500 Portland Center Stage General Support $87,366 General Support $85,003 Portland Chamber Orchestra General Support $14,525 General Support $13,377 Portland Children's Museum Visual Arts Project $5,400 Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra General Support $13,295 General Support $10,000 13 Portland Community College Foundation Media Arts Project $5,700
2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount Portland Gay Men's Chorus General Support $15,096 General Support $13,968 Portland Gay Men's Chorus Opportunity Grant $10,000 Portland Insitute for Contemporary Art (PICA) General Support $26,805 General Support $25,180 Portland Jazz Festival Professional Development $1,400 Portland Jazz Orchestra** Music Project $3,719 Portland Opera General Support $137,369 General Support $132,836 Portland Piano International General Support $14,338 General Support $10,500 Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival Media Arts Project $5,388 Media Arts Project $5,700 Portland State University Department of Art Visual Arts Project $3,530 Portland SummerFest Opportunity Grant $5,000 Portland Taiko General Support $37,264 General Support $35,081 Portland Theatre Works Theatre Project $2,160 Theatre Project $1,768 Portland Youth Philharmonic General Support $27,865 General Support $26,189 POV Dance Dance/Movement Project $4,028 Print Arts Northwest** Visual Arts Project $2,066 Profile Theatre Project General Support $22,401 General Support $21,054 Profile Theatre Project Opportunity Grant $20,654 Providence ElderPlace at Glendoveer Visual Arts Project $4,500 Quest Center for Integrative Health (QC) Visual Arts Project $5,378 RASIKA Opportunity Grant $6,600 Skill Share Studio Professional Development $1,363 Sojourn Theatre Theatre Project $4,800 Sowelu Theater Theatre Project $4,780 Sowelu Theater Opportunity Grant $5,415 www.racc.org Staged! Portland’s Musical Theatre Series* Professional Development $725 Stumptown Stages* Theatre Project $3,732 Tears of Joy Theatre General Support $29,623 General Support $27,590 Terra Linda Elementary PTC** Visual Arts Project $5,109 The PDX Film Festival Media Arts Project $4,800 regional Arts & culture council Theatre in the Grove** Theatre Project $5,400 Theatre Vertigo Theatre Project $1,380 Third Angle New Music Ensemble Opportunity Grant $2,000 Third Angle New Music Ensemble Music Project $5,686 Music Project $4,800 Third Rail Repertory Theatre Theatre Project $5,700 Tool Shed, PDX Professional Development $1,000 Tribal Leadership Forum (TLF)** Media Arts Project $5,031 Water in the Desert Professional Development $1,600 2009 report to the community Water in the Desert Multi-Discipline Project $4,478 White Bird General Support $48,265 General Support $46,414 Wisdom of the Elders Folk Arts Project $4,800 Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner Professional Development $1,500 Write Around Portland General Support $18,450 General Support $16,375 Young Audiences of Oregon General Support $29,596 General Support $25,351 The Young People’s Theatre Project** Theatre Project $4,800 14 TOTAL $1,824,640* $1,761,803 *funding year still in progress
GRANTS To INDIvIDUAl ARTISTS project GrAntS help fund specific, one-time projects or Note: Due to the unstable economic climate, RACC has deferred performances that take place in the Portland tri-county area. the Artist Fellowship program for 2009. profeSSionAl Development GrAntS support opportunities * Clackamas County-based artist ** Washington County-based artist for artists to improve their business management and/or artistic (The remainder are Multnomah County-based artists) skills. 2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Devon Allen Theatre Project $3,975 Theatre Project $4,000 Smitty Amabilis Professional Development $750 Abra Ancliffe Visual Arts Project $4,102 Abra Ancliffe Professional Development $850 Michelle Anderson Professional Development $1,000 Peter Armetta Theatre Project $5,665 Susan Banyas Multi-Discipline Project $6,000 Michael Beach Music Project $4,432 Everett A. Beidler Multi-Discipline Project $4,731 Emily Beleele Theatre Project $5,668 Barbara Bernstein Music Project $4,050 Andrew Blubaugh Media Arts Project $5,705 www.racc.org Rose Bond** Media Arts Project $5,700 Tiffany Brown Professional Development $1,200 Tracy Broyles Dance/Movement Project $4,382 Inge Bruggeman Professional Development $1,000 regional Arts & culture council Kevin Burke Music Project $4,800 Ryan Burns Visual Arts Project $3,200 Peter Burr Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Brad Carlile** Professional Development $1,750 Jedidiah Chavez Visual Arts Project $3,660 Varinthorn Christopher Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Brandy Cochrane Visual Arts Project $3,864 M.J. Cody* Literature Project $5,626 Bruce Conkle Visual Arts Project $4,604 2009 report to the community Alissa Creamer Media Arts Project $5,548 Carlos Alexis Cruz Theatre Project $4,463 Dicky Dahl Media Arts Project $3,846 Nanette Davis** Professional Development $1,800 Suniti Dernovsek Dance/Movement Project $5,096 To learn more or apply for granTs 15 visiT racc.org/granTs
2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Carl Diehl Professional Development $1,620 Laura Di Trapani** Media Arts Project $4,500 Sarah Dougher Music Project $2,450 Arcy Douglass Professional Development $1,265 Daniel A. Duford Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Tamara English Visual Arts Project $1,715 Professional Development $700 Travis Ezell Media Arts Project $5,175 Colleen M. Flanigan Visual Arts Project $5,397 Sarah Liane Foster Professional Development $878 Liz Fuller Media Arts Project $5,157 Jackie Gabel Music Project $5,387 Catherine Garvin Professional Development $1,425 Alexis Gideon Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Damien Gilley Professional Development $815 Dan Gilsdorf Media Arts Project $3,392 Jaisen Glogowski Professional Development $1,000 Justin Gorman Professional Development $1,400 Anne G. Greenwood Professional Development $1,535 Cindy Williams Gutierrez* Professional Development $1,744 Heather Hawksford Mount Professional Development $1,200 Chris Harder Theatre Project $5,691 Angelle Hebert Dance/Movement Project $4,782 Professional Development $1,460 www.racc.org Melanya Helene Theatre Project $2,254 Faith Helma Multi-Discipline Project $4,463 Lauren Henkin Visual Arts Project $4,498 Helen Hiebert Visual Arts Project $4,155 Helen Hiebert Professional Development $1,247 regional Arts & culture council LeAnne Hitchcock Multi-Discipline Project $2,848 Hunt Holman* Theatre Project $2,380 Tahni Holt Multi-Discipline Project $5,610 Multi-Discipline Project $5,011 Sarah Horowitz Visual Arts Project $5,444 Deborah Horrell Professional Development $1,000 Jody Hughes Music Project $4,584 Eric Hull Multi-Discipline Project $1,014 Eric Hull Professional Development $1,778 2009 report to the community Bethany Ides Multi-Discipline Project $4,419 Abraham Ingle Media Arts Project $4,750 Kazuyo Ito Music Project $5,381 Music Project $4,205 Diane Jacobs Professional Development $773 Ryan Jeffery Visual Arts Project $4,320 Lawrence Johnson Media Arts Project $4,490 Lawrence Johnson Multi-Discipline Project $ 4,211 16 MyLinda King Music Project $4,536 Joanne Kollman Professional Development $1,500 Holcombe Waller in Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest: Project Grant
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Agnieszka Laska Multi-Discipline Project $5,099 Horatio Hung-Yan Law Professional Development $900 Erin Leddy Professional Development $400 Suzanne Lee Professional Development $1,200 Alain LeTourneau Media Arts Project $4,313 Alain LeTourneau Innovation Prize $2,500 Brian Lindstrom Media Arts Project-NAP $5,032 Brian Lindstrom Media Arts Project-AF $5,700 Kate MacDowell Professional Development $1,800 Gregory MacNaughton* Professional Development $1,300 Carla Mann Dance/Movement Project $5,960 Allen Mathews Professional Development $1,200 Matt McCormick Media Arts Project $4,718 Media Arts Project $3,492 Alicia McDaid Professional Development $1,400 Mack McFarland Visual Arts Project $1,940 Maldon Meehan Professional Development $1,600 Thara Memory Professional Development $1,500 Genevieve Mercatante Professional Development $375 Kristen Miller Visual Arts Project $5,646 Chaz Mortimer Professional Development $1,000 Jenene Nagy Visual Arts Project $4,434 Professional Development $1,187 Motoya Nakamura Visual Arts Project $5,241 Lorna Nakell Visual Arts Project $4,707 Seth Nehil Multi-Discipline Project $5,700 www.racc.org Kelly Neidig Professional Development $1,700 Mia Nolting Professional Development $1,000 TJ Norris Professional Development $1,100 David Oates Literature Project $4,972 regional Arts & culture council Liz Obert Professional Development $1,376 Andrew Oliver Music Project $5,700 Tara Jane ONeil Professional Development $1,100 Lisa Ornstein Professional Development $2,000 Bruce Orr Theatre Project $4,743 Mary Oslund Dance/Movement Project $4,798 Chris Parkhurst Media Arts Project $4,760 Linnea Osterberg Professional Development $1,750 Melody Owen Visual Arts Project $4,500 2009 report to the community Nance Paternoster Professional Development $1,075 J. D. Perkin Professional Development $1,500 Heather Perkins Music Project $4,500 Leif Peterson Media Arts Project $4,687 Ryan Pierce Visual Arts Project $1,422 Jayanthi Raman** Dance/Movement Project $5,605 Seth Raphael Professional Development $1,500 18 Christopher Reitmaier Professional Development $1,500
2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Gary Robbins Professional Development $1,750 Dmae Roberts Media Arts Project $4,680 Literature Project $5,750 Ethan Rose Music Project $5,400 Professional Development $800 Michelle Ross Visual Arts Project $3,638 Bobby Ryan Theatre Project $4,630 Kaia Sand Multi-Discipline Project $3,615 Francesca Sanders Professional Development $1,013 Blair Saxon-Hill Professional Development $1,500 Marty Schnapf Professional Development $1,000 Helena Schniewind Professional Development $1,368 Carla Schultz Professional Development $1,000 Joe Schneider Visual Arts Project $5,399 Heidi Schwegler Multi-Discipline Project $5,364 Professional Development $1,200 Marie Sivak* Professional Development $1,500 Stephen Slappe Visual/Media Arts $4,277 Installation Project Josh Smith Professional Development $525 Joseph Sneed Visual Arts Project $5,553 Desmond Spann** Multi-Discipline Project $3,060 Desmond Spann** Professional Development $2,000 Kim Stafford Artists Fellowship - $20,000 Literature Tim Stapleton Multi-Discipline Project $3,908 David Stein Visual Arts Project $4,228 www.racc.org Anne Louise Sterry* Professional Development $800 Andrea Stolowitz Professional Development $1,750 Cheryl Strayed Professional Development $952 Barbara Tetenbaum Media Arts Project $5,400 Jamin London Tinsel Professional Development $2,000 regional Arts & culture council Mary-Sue Tobin Music Project $2,925 Lara Triback Professional Development $1,445 Carl Vandervoort Media Arts Project $4,643 Maro Vandorou Visual Arts Project $4,745 Professional Development $1,000 Elaine Velazquez Professional Development $1,500 Jessica Wallenfels Theatre Project $5,098 Holcombe Waller Professional Development $1,430 Shu-Ju Wang Professional Development $900 2009 report to the community Megan Ward Theatre Project $5,100 Marie Watt Visual Arts Project $6,000 Grace Weston Professional Development $1,200 Kelly M. Williams** Visual Arts Project $4,244 Alan Wone* Multi-Discipline Project $4,973 Sharon Wood Wortman Multi-Discipline Project $4,568 Linda Wysong Professional Development $1,500 19 TOTALS: $269,741 $299,448 *funding year still in progress
PUBlIc ART RAcc acquires and maintains artworks in public places, enlivening urban and rural landscapes. The Public Art Advisory committee oversees RAcc’s public art program, which is among the oldest and most highly regarded public art programs in the country. PeRceNT FoR ART ART oN THe STReeTS Twenty-nine years ago, the City of Portland and Multnomah Every year Portland’s Bureau of Transportation allocates funds County adopted Percent for Art ordinances that have resulted to RACC for a collaboration that places public artworks along city in more than 1,000 publicly accessible and owned artworks in streets. The program focuses on neighborhoods where the bureau is government buildings, parks, police and fire stations, community making improvements and weaves art into its streetscape designs. centers and along paths and city streets. Two percent of major city and county construction projects is dedicated to public art. projecTs underway or compleTed ....... arTisT Clinton Bike Boulevard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Borrello, Matt Cartwright projecTs underway or compleTed ..... arTisT Dekum Bioswale, Bike Corral/Art Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peg Butler, Buster Simpson Burnside-Couch Couplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LODGE Denver Streetscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mauricio Saldaña City of Portland Archives & Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Keiko Hara Peoples Bike Library of Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Borrello and Vanessa Renwick in collaboration with Zoobomb www.racc.org Director Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Corson East Portland Community Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce West Ed Benedict Skate Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Garland Elizabeth Caruthers Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doug Hollis Fire Station Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jack Archibald regional Arts & culture council Fire Station 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Linda Haworth Gateway District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Bonner Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna Valentina Murch Juvenile Justice Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arvie Smith Kenton Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marlene Bauer Portland Transit Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . new works selected in collaboration with TriMet Resource Access Center/Housing Authority of Portland . . . . . . . . . .Masayuki Nagase South Waterfront Greenway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Buster Simpson Troutdale Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marlene Bauer 2009 report to the community University Place Apartments Redevelopment/ Housing Authority of Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Archibald Waterfront Park /Ankeny Plaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ned Kahn Willamette Greenway Trail on Swan Island (Big Pipe Portal, right). . . . . . . . . .rhiza a + d To view The enTire public arT collecTion, 20 Brian Borello and Vanessa Renwick, People’s Bike Library in Portland visiT racc.org/publicarT Opposite: rhiza A+D, Big Pipe Portal (detail)
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
vISUAl cHRoNIcle PUBlIc ART mURAlS The Visual Chronicle of Portland is a 24-year-old city-owned The Public Art Murals Program provides city funding for artists collection of original works on paper, including paintings, to create murals in neighborhoods throughout Portland. Artists, prints, drawings and photographs. The artworks reveal artists’ business owners and community members work together to perceptions of the city’s distinctive physical, cultural, social and revitalize and beautify their neighborhoods with ambitious and political environments. diverse murals that often include hands-on experiences for people of all ages. in 2009, works were purchased from The following arTisTs: murals funded from july 2008 Through fall 2009: sponsor locaTion and lead arTisT justine Avera David chelsea Kevin farrell jason Greene • Alexis Building: 215 SE Stark - Portland City Art (Chris Haberman, Jennifer Mercede, John Graeter) Bruce hall Alex lilly • Cherry Sprout Produce Market: 722 N Sumner - Jo Jackson, francis X rosica jake Shivery Chris Johanson • Impact Northwest/p:ear: 4635 SE Hawthorne - Rodolfo Serna • KBOO Community Radio: 20 SE 8th - Kevin Fitzpatrick • MIKE Program (Multicultural Integrated Kidney Education Program): 703 NE Hancock - Robin Corbo • Miraflores Community Housing: 8913 N Newell - Hector Hernandez • Mt. Scott Community Center Teen Volunteer Corp.: 5501 SE 72nd Avenue - Tiago DeJerk • Portland State University: 510 SW Hall - Harrell Fletcher • Portland Store Fixtures: 110 SE Main - Teri Payton www.racc.org • Roseway Neighborhood Association: 7215 NE Sandy Boulevard - Angelina Marino, Gary Herd, Joel Heidel, Marlys Mick • St. Mark Presbyterian Church: 9750 SW Terwilliger Boulevard - Esteban Camacho Stefensen regional Arts & culture council • Tabor Commons: 5633 SE Division - Laura Bender, John Early • The Farm Café: 10 SE 7th - Teressa Hamje • Urban Greenspace Institute at the Portland Memorial Mausoleum: 6705 SE 14th - Art FX (Shane Bennett and Dan Cohen) 2009 report to the community 22 Justine Avera, Pondering Murals and Mannequins at Mario’s (Visual Chronicle) Art Fx, Oaks Bottom Mural from OMSI Springwater Trail
PoRTlAND BUIlDING GIFTS INSTAllATIoN SPAce Building and caring for the Public Art Collection is a huge undertaking. Fortunately, RACC, the City of Portland and 1120 sw fifTh avenue Multnomah County have generous allies. Individuals, businesses Every year artists are offered an opportunity to create a month- and other groups have made important and varied contributions www.racc.org long installation in a 13’ x 8’ alcove in the Portland Building lobby to our public art collection. This year, we highlight the unique where thousands of city employees and the public pass through relationship that RACC and the City have with the Oregon each working day. A panel of artists and city employees selects Holocaust Resource Center, an organization that was established professional artists and art students based on their proposals and to maintain Washington Park’s Oregon Holocaust Memorial in images of past work. Viewers are invited to share their thoughts and perpetuity. The Center funds all the maintenance that RACC reactions in a comment book placed near the space. regional Arts & culture council provides and supports the City and consultants to preserve this important monument for future generations. 2008-2009 arTisTs Brennan conaway carrie iverson john larsen carolyn matsumoto mAINTeNANce & Re-SITING nickolus meisel paula rebsom Dan Senn Gabe Shaughnessy As the steward for the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collections, RACC devotes substantial resources to rachel hibbard, Sean regan and cara tomlinson maintaining and preserving the region’s cultural assets. 2009 report to the community A significant amount of work goes into determining the location of 2009 sTudenTs all permanently sited public art, but as the urban landscape grows Steven Beatty and laurel Kurtz and changes, RACC must occasionally make adjustments and michael reinsch move large pieces. This decision is never made lightly, especially if the piece was commissioned for a particular site, but these moves Sarah roach and cyrus Smith are made with context and public accessibility foremost in mind. 23 ABOVE: Oregon Holocaust Resource Center volunteer Ruth Bolliger cleans the polished granite of the Memorial Wall; Public Art Gift
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
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Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council: Rpeort to Community
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  • 1. V IIIÞ Regional Arts & Culture Council 1OB NW 9th Avenue, Suite 3OO Portland, OR 97209-3318 503.823.5111 www.racc.org PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL Date: March 10, 2010 To: Mayor Sam Adams, City of Portland From: Bloise Damrosch, RACC Executive Director Subject: Accept the 2OO9 State of the Arts Presentation is pleased to deliver its annual "State of the Arts" presentation In accordance with our contract with the City, RACC and share the many ways in which RACC continues to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of community life. In 2009, RACC served more than 80 Portland-based arts organizations, hundreds of schoolchildren and their families, and countless artists of every discipline. RACC works hand in hand with the Mayor's office and other government partners to advance the goals of Actfor ArÍ, the region's five year action plan for arts and culture. Public opinion research shows strong citizen support for a long-term dedicated funding solution for arts and culture, and we remain committed to helping the Creative Advocacy Network respond to this demand. RACC also continues to demonstrate an extraordinary ability to leverage the City's investment with funds from other public and private partners, and our entire region benefits as a result. Even in a challenging economic environment, and with less public funding that most other creative cities, RACC finds the resources and builds the partnerships necessary to make a significant impact in our community. For example, our ever-growing workplace giving program, seeded with funds from the City of Portland and now three counties, recruits hundreds of new arts donors every year, which helps sustain our vital arts organizations. The City is also helping us attract hundreds of thousands of dollars from the private sector to expand the Right Brain Initiative, bringing us closer to our vision of guaranteeing arts education for every K-8 student in the region in the next five years. The City of Portland can feel confident that RACC and the arts community are working together to turn the City's limited investments into powerful results for our community. Investments in arts and culture continue to fuel creativity in our classrooms, spark innovation in our companies, stimulate economic activity, and sustain a high quality of life for our residents. comm il accept the RACC "State of the Arts" report. Bxecutive Director TO THB COUNCIL Mayor Sam Adams concurs with the findings of the RACC Executive Director, and RECOMMENDS: That the Council accept the report. Respeclfully submitted, Mayor, City of Portland pRrNrED oN 30% posr-coNsuMER REcvcleo elern {þ
  • 2. 2009 report to the community
  • 3. BodyVox, Foot Opera Files, (Photo: Michael Shea, Polara Studios): General Support
  • 4. Welcome Reflecting on this past year of financial challenges, we are struck by the resilience, creativity and determination of people in our region. last year as we wrote this letter we faced an uncertain future and RAcc vowed to do everything possible to support artists and arts organizations through this tough time. While the future remains murky, we have positive things to report from this past year – details of which run through this annual report. Thanks to enlightened and committed elected leaders, RAcc held its entire grants program whole and supplemented it with Work for Art dollars, which increased by 19%. People in our region care and they give. The Transit mall reopened with 10 previously sited artworks cleaned, conserved and re-installed in new locations. Joining them were 14 new artworks, creating a sizable public collection of Northwest sculptures. RAcc was delighted to partner with Trimet throughout this four-year undertaking and will be caretakers of all the public art on the mall. Americans for the Arts recently announced that RAcc’s Public Art Program is one of the top five award-winning programs nationally, which makes us very proud. The Right Brain Initiative continues to grow. All 20 original schools returned and Portland Public Schools was able to add three new ones. We anticipate having ever-greater evidence of the value of integrated arts learning at the end of this first full year of programming. We thank all of our partners, funders and participants for this growing success. The creative Advocacy Network was launched, and its ranks of supporters—including elected officials, corporate leaders, artists, educators, arts organizations and individuals—continue to grow as we work toward our goal of $15-20 million in new and dedicated arts funding. In hard economic times polling once again showed that arts accessibility and arts education are highly www.racc.org valued by regional voters. Please become active in this crucial movement. let’s all keep participating, supporting and doing all we can to ensure that the arts and artists flourish. regional Arts & culture council carole morse, Board Chair eloise Damrosch, Executive Director 2009 report to the community 108 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 300 Portland, oR 97209-3318 503.823.5111 • 503.823.5432 fax info@racc.org • www.racc.org 3
  • 5. oUR Role The Regional Arts & culture council (RAcc) is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) arts service organization that works to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of community life. RAcc’s service area includes more than 1.5 million residents, 250 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations and www.racc.org countless artists of every discipline in the Portland, oregon metropolitan region including clackamas, regional Arts & culture council multnomah and Washington counties. “In times of war and sacrifice, the arts … remind us to sing and to laugh and to live. In times of plenty, they challenge our conscience and implore us to remember the least among us. 2009 report to the community In moments of division or doubt, they compel us to see the common values that we share; the ideals to which we aspire, even if we sometimes fall short. In days of hardship, they renew our hope that brighter days are still ahead. So let’s never forget that art strengthens America. And that’s why we’re making sure that America strengthens its arts.” --President Barack obama 4
  • 6. ADvocAcy p.6 GRANTS p.10 PUBlIc ART p.20 SeRvIce p.26 eDUcATIoN p.28 RAcc FINANcIAl SUmmARy p.32 coNTRIBUTIoNS p.34 volUNTeeRS p.36 BoARD memBeRS AND STAFF p.38 Blue Sky Gallery, Outcasts of Slovakia Photograph by Julie Denesha: General Support
  • 7. ADvocAcy RAcc works to build support and resources for a strong arts and culture community. We advocate for increased community participation and investment in the arts. The following are some of The advocacy efforTs underTaken in 2009: PUBlIc FUNDING vISIBIlITy local arTs funding AND collABoRATIoN RACC, Business for Culture & the Arts (BCA) and the Creative recogniTion of The arTs Advocacy Network (CAN) gathered wide community support to RACC celebrates the importance of the arts all year long, ensure that arts funding was maintained at current levels in all especially in March for Oregon Arts Education Month and in jurisdictions, including the City of Portland, Metro, and Clackamas, October for National Arts & Humanities Month. Multnomah and Washington Counties. RACC also secured public financing from the City of Portland to support the new Creative green gifT guide Advocacy Network and to expand The Right Brain Initiative in RACC supported a collaboration within the arts community to 2009-10. give tickets, memberships and other performing arts experiences as part of a waste-free holiday season. The Green Gift Guide was dedicaTed funding distributed to more than 15,000 area residents and promoted RACC is working closely with CAN to advance the goal of securing through local retailers, schools, non-profits and online at long-term, dedicated funding for arts and culture in the region within www.ecometro.com. www.racc.org the next one-five years. hulahub sTaTe arTs funding RACC supported the creation of a new social networking site and RACC supports the growth and development of the Oregon Cultural iPhone app for arts and culture. Developed by Portland-based Trust, a permanent endowment to increase cultural participation ticketing company Box Office Tickets Inc, HulaHub provides a regional Arts & culture council in the arts, heritage and humanities across the state. In the spring single consolidated calendar of events, organizations, profiles, of 2009, the Oregon legislature “recaptured” $1.8 million from the reviews, ticketing and blogs. Artists and arts organizations can Cultural Trust’s license plate revenues to fill a budget gap. RACC enter their events into the system for free, and visitors can search rallied constituents to protest this action. Although the legislature for venues by type of performance space, capacity and other proceeded with the maneuver, arts advocates successfully raised the parameters. Online at www.hulahub.com. profile of the Cultural Trust and gained new legislators’ commitments to support the Trust in the future. granTmakers in The arTs RACC hosted a series of meetings with local foundations and arts naTional arTs funding organizations in its continuing efforts to advocate for increased In partnership with Americans for the Arts (AFTA), RACC sent private investments in arts and culture. Janet Brown, GIA’s 2009 report to the community Action Alerts regarding Congressional action on arts funding, executive director, visited Portland on December 8, 2009. including National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and federal arts education arT spark programs. RACC also lobbied for $50 million in arts stimulus funding RACC coordinated 12 Art Spark gatherings in 2009 that were to be included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; attended by more than 600 artists and arts supporters. These the NEA and the Oregon Arts Commission have since distributed monthly gatherings held at venues throughout the city give artists these funds to support jobs at nonprofit arts organizations across the the opportunity to meet each other and learn more about the local country, including $402,000 to organizations in RACC’s service area. arts community. Online at www.portlandartspark.com. 6 From Portland Art Museum’s PNCA at 100 Exhibition; Feast of Stephen by Lucinda Parker (detail) 1980, Collection of Arlene and Harold Schnitzer: General Support
  • 9. Hollione Foundation WoRk FoR ART Intel JP Morgan Chase Bank* Kaiser Permanente* Work for Art is a collaborative fundraising, advocacy and outreach KPMG effort that raises money and awareness for more than 80 regional The Little Red Hen Foundation arts and culture organizations each year, primarily through employee McClenahan Bruer Communications charitable giving campaigns and other unique partnerships with Metro local businesses in the region. The program cultivates new arts Norris, Beggs & Simpson Companies donors and educates employees on the vital role that arts and culture North Clackamas Schools organizations play in building strong communities. ODS Companies* Work for Art raised a total of $665,863 in the annual campaign Oregon Anesthesiology Group ending June 30, 2009—a 19% increase from the 2007-08 campaign. Oregon Ballet Theatre This total includes gifts from workplace giving campaigns, Oregon Children’s Theatre corporations, foundations, individuals and a public matching Oregon Health & Science University challenge fund. Oregon Museum of Science & Industry Pacific University Top 10 workplace giving campaigns in 2008-09 Perkins Coie NW Natural* Pop Art* State of Oregon Agencies & Universities Port of Portland Portland General Electric* Portland Art Museum Zimmer Gunsul Frasca* Portland Business Alliance City of Portland Portland Center Stage Sunshine Dairy Foods* The Portland Clinic The Standard* Portland Development Commission Burgerville Portland Opera Multnomah County Portland Public Schools SmartForest Ventures Profile Theatre Regional Arts & Culture Council www.racc.org addiTional parTicipaTing companies Retired Associates of PSU and organizaTions Sinju Restaurant Aldrich Kilbride & Tatone Stoel Rives Axium* Tonkon Torp LLP Boeing Company* Travel Portland Boora Architects regional Arts & culture council Umpqua Bank Bullivant Houser Bailey Vernier Software & Technology Business for Culture & the Arts Washington County City of Beaverton Wells Fargo Bank City of Lake Oswego Write Around Portland Clackamas County Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington Davis Wright Tremaine Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue (*) denotes companies that match their employees’ contributions Entrepreneuers Foundation of the Northwest Far West Fibers Federal Workers public maTching challenge funds 2009 report to the community First Independent Bank* provided by City of Portland Freeman Foundation Clackamas County Gales Creek Insurance* Multnomah County Gerding Edlen Development* Washington County Hewlett-Packard* 8
  • 10. Gregg Kantor, president and CEO of NW Natural, is the Honorary Work for Art also encourages more citizens to participate in arts Chair of the 2009-10 Work for Art campaign, which runs through and culture by providing affordable access to hundreds of arts and June 30, 2010. The goal for the 2009-10 Work for Art campaign culture events in the region. Donors who give $60 or more receive is to raise $675,000, and RACC is working to enlist a total of 100 an Arts Card, which provides 2-for-1 ticket offers for events and participating companies in the program by 2012. performances at more than 50 different arts organizations. Gregg Kantor promotes Work for Art at the 2009 BCA Breakfast of Champions www.racc.org regional Arts & culture council 2009 report to the community 9 Stumptown Stages, Musical performances of The Wiz for the deaf: Project Grant
  • 11. GRANTS GRANTS To oRGANIzATIoNS GenerAl Support GrAntS help fund the overall mission of profeSSionAl Development GrAntS support an established arts organizations that have minimum budgets of organization’s artistic growth and/or business development. $80,000. opportunity GrAntS provide special, one-time support to project GrAntS help fund specific, one-time projects or Portland-based nonprofit arts organizations. performances that take place in the Portland tri-county area. * Clackamas County-based arts organization ** Washington County-based arts organization (The remainder are Multnomah County-based arts organization) 2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount 3D Center of Art & Photography Professional Development $550 40 Frames Professional Development $1,440 Adelante Mujeres** Folk Arts Project $2,130 Agnieszka Laska Dancers Professional Development $1,568 Multi-Discipline Project $5,400 Alliance Française of Portland Multi-Discipline Project $4,286 Architecture Foundation of Oregon Opportunity Grant $10,000 The Art Gym* Professional Development $1,250 The Art Gym* Visual Arts Project $5,100 Visual Arts Project $6,000 Art on Alberta Presenting Project $6,000 Art Walk Etc. Multi-Discipline Project $4,570 Artists Repertory Theatre General Support $54,732 General Support $53,192 Audubon Society of Portland Visual Arts Project $5,100 A-WOL Dance Collective Multi-Discipline Project $5,463 Professional Development $1,489 www.racc.org The backroom Opportunity Grant $2,000 BaseRoots Theatre Company Theatre Project $3,935 Beaverton Arts Commission** Dance/Movement Project $5,700 Presenting Music Project $4,305 Beaverton Arts Commission** Professional Development $1,500 Beaverton Civic Theatre** Theatre Project $4,208 regional Arts & culture council Blue Sky Gallery General Support $10,696 General Support $10,656 BodyVox General Support $22,694 General Support $21,213 Bouand Dance Company** Professional Development $1,100 BroadArts Theatre Opportunity Grant $5,000 Broadway Rose Theare Company** General Support $30,845 General Support $27,040 Caldera Opportunity Grant $4,500 Cappella Romana, Inc. General Support $10,656 General Support $10,000 Chamber Music Northwest General Support $51,761 General Support $50,287 2009 report to the community Children’s Healing Art Project Visual Arts Project $4,800 Cinema Project Media Arts Project $4,789 Professional Development $909 Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon Theatre Project $3,581 Theatre Project $4,000 Cleveland High School Theatre Project $3,858 Community of Writers Opportunity Grant $30,000 Conduit Dance Opportunity Grant $15,000 Cooper Mountain Elementary** Visual Arts Project $3,924 10 Dance Coalition of Oregon Dance/Movement Project $3,969 The Deep Roots Music Project Multi-Discipline Project $2,448 Students celebrating the Mosaic Garden Mural at Terra Linda Elementary School: Project Grant
  • 13. 2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount defunkt theatre Theatre Project $4,445 Theatre Project $4,993 Disability Rights Oregon Theatre Project $5,580 Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center Visual Arts Project $4,240 Visual Arts Project $3,700 Do Jump Movement Theater General Support $27,547 General Support $25,897 Elemental Summer Camp Multi-Discipline Project $3,866 Estacada Area Arts Commission* Multi-Discipline Project $5,273 Presenting Project $5,041 Ethos, Inc. General Support $17,544 General Support $16,530 Fear No Music Professional Development $1,600 Music Project $5,400 Film Action Oregon General Support $19,519 General Support $14,230 Fir Grove Elementary** Visual Arts Project $3,722 First Friday Gallery Guide Professional Development $1,584 Friends of Chamber Music General Support $19,454 General Support $18,225 Friends of Chamber Music Opportunity Grant $10,000 Fuse Theatre Ensemble Opportunity Grant $2,987 German American Society Opportunity Grant $6,400 Hand2Mouth Theatre Opportunity Grant $9,450 Theatre Project $5,238 Hand2Mouth Theatre Theatre Project $4,800 Professional Development $1,025 Hillsboro Community Youth Choir** Professional Development $1,000 Homowo African Arts and Culture General Support $21,006 General Support $20,856 Imago Theatre General Support $28,051 General Support $26,385 Imago Theatre Opportunity Grant $30,000 Independent Publishing Resource Center Media Arts Project $4,752 India Cultural Association Presenting Project $3,868 Presenting Project $4,536 www.racc.org Innovative Housing Inc. Visual Arts Project $5,100 Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Professional Development $725 Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Visual Arts Project $4,540 Jewish Theatre Collaborative Theatre Project $4,712 junk to funk recycled fashion show Professional Development $1,200 regional Arts & culture council Justseeds Visual Arts Project $4,403 Krayon Kids Musical Theater Company* Theatre Project $850 Kukatonon Dance/Movement Project $5,700 Dance/Movement Project $6,000 Lakewood Center for the Arts* General Support $33,425 General Support $25,799 Literary Arts, Inc. General Support $40,877 General Support $39,105 Live On Stage Theatre Project $5,439 Live Wire! General Support $11,314 General Support $9,000 Media, Arts & Technology Institute (MATI) Media Arts Project $4,347 2009 report to the community The Media Project Media Arts Project $5,400 Merlo Station High School/BSD** Visual Arts Project $4,250 MetroArts, Inc. Music Project $4,500 Metropolitan Youth Symphony General Support $28,035 General Support $26,796 Miracle Theatre Group General Support $27,797 General Support $25,955 Multnomah Arts Center Association Visual Arts Project $4,437 Museum of Contemporary Crafts General Support $20,943 General Support $20,943 My Story Visual Arts Project $3,175 12 My Voice Music Music Project $922
  • 14. 2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount New Avenues for Youth Literature Project $3,518 New Century Players* Theatre Project $6,000 Newspace Center for Photography Visual Arts Project $1,058 Northwest Children’s Theater and School General Support $26,433 General Support $22,142 Northwest Children’s Theater and School Opportunity Grant $30,000 Northwest Dance Project General Support $12,314 General Support $10,000 Northwest Film Center Media ArtsProject $4,505 Northwest Photography Archive Visual Arts Project $4,750 Opportunity Grant $15,000 Nowhere Gallery Professional Development $1,800 NW Documentary Arts & Media Professional Development $1,800 Opera Theater Oregon Multi-Discipline Project $4,007 Oregon Ballet Theatre General Support $84,950 General Support $79,697 Oregon Ballet Theatre Opportunity Grant $25,000 Oregon Children’s Theatre General Support $56,592 General Support $54,394 Oregon Crusaders Opportunity Grant $12,500 Oregon Cultural Access (ORCA) Multi-Discipline Project $4,712 Oregon Cultural Access (ORCA) Dance/Movement Project $1,826 Oregon Historical Society Folklife Program Folk Arts Project $4,459 Oregon Jewish Museum Opportunity Grant $9,422 Oregon Potters Association Opportunity Grant $6,500 Oregon Public Broadcasting Opportunity Grant $18,600 Oregon Repertory Singers General Support $26,085 General Support $24,779 Oregon Symphonic Band Professional Development $1,125 www.racc.org Oregon Symphony General Support $141,066 General Support $139,746 Oregon Women’s Caucus for Art Visual Arts Project $4,800 Orlo Opportunity Grant $9,982 Project Grant $4,600 Orlo Literature Project $5,510 Literature Project Oslund + Company/Dance Dance/Movement Project $4,624 regional Arts & culture council Pacific Crest Wind Symphony Opportunity Grant $9,342 Pacific Youth Choir Opportunity Grant $15,360 PassinArt: A Theatre Company Professional Development $1,000 Theatre Project $4,140 The PDX Film Festival Media Arts Project $4,800 PDX Pop Now! Music Project $3,961 Dance Project $5,770 Pendulum Aerial Dance Theatre Professional Development $1,600 PlayWrite Inc. General Support $14,036 General Support $12,230 Portland Actors’ Conservatory General Support $13,295 2009 report to the community Portland Art Museum General Support $191,938 General Support $184,686 The Portland Ballet General Support $16,338 General Support $9,500 Portland Baroque Orchestra General Support $20,804 General Support $19,155 Portland Boychoir Professional Development $1,500 Portland Center Stage General Support $87,366 General Support $85,003 Portland Chamber Orchestra General Support $14,525 General Support $13,377 Portland Children's Museum Visual Arts Project $5,400 Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra General Support $13,295 General Support $10,000 13 Portland Community College Foundation Media Arts Project $5,700
  • 15. 2009-10 2008-09 Organization Type of Grant Amount Type of Grant Amount Portland Gay Men's Chorus General Support $15,096 General Support $13,968 Portland Gay Men's Chorus Opportunity Grant $10,000 Portland Insitute for Contemporary Art (PICA) General Support $26,805 General Support $25,180 Portland Jazz Festival Professional Development $1,400 Portland Jazz Orchestra** Music Project $3,719 Portland Opera General Support $137,369 General Support $132,836 Portland Piano International General Support $14,338 General Support $10,500 Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival Media Arts Project $5,388 Media Arts Project $5,700 Portland State University Department of Art Visual Arts Project $3,530 Portland SummerFest Opportunity Grant $5,000 Portland Taiko General Support $37,264 General Support $35,081 Portland Theatre Works Theatre Project $2,160 Theatre Project $1,768 Portland Youth Philharmonic General Support $27,865 General Support $26,189 POV Dance Dance/Movement Project $4,028 Print Arts Northwest** Visual Arts Project $2,066 Profile Theatre Project General Support $22,401 General Support $21,054 Profile Theatre Project Opportunity Grant $20,654 Providence ElderPlace at Glendoveer Visual Arts Project $4,500 Quest Center for Integrative Health (QC) Visual Arts Project $5,378 RASIKA Opportunity Grant $6,600 Skill Share Studio Professional Development $1,363 Sojourn Theatre Theatre Project $4,800 Sowelu Theater Theatre Project $4,780 Sowelu Theater Opportunity Grant $5,415 www.racc.org Staged! Portland’s Musical Theatre Series* Professional Development $725 Stumptown Stages* Theatre Project $3,732 Tears of Joy Theatre General Support $29,623 General Support $27,590 Terra Linda Elementary PTC** Visual Arts Project $5,109 The PDX Film Festival Media Arts Project $4,800 regional Arts & culture council Theatre in the Grove** Theatre Project $5,400 Theatre Vertigo Theatre Project $1,380 Third Angle New Music Ensemble Opportunity Grant $2,000 Third Angle New Music Ensemble Music Project $5,686 Music Project $4,800 Third Rail Repertory Theatre Theatre Project $5,700 Tool Shed, PDX Professional Development $1,000 Tribal Leadership Forum (TLF)** Media Arts Project $5,031 Water in the Desert Professional Development $1,600 2009 report to the community Water in the Desert Multi-Discipline Project $4,478 White Bird General Support $48,265 General Support $46,414 Wisdom of the Elders Folk Arts Project $4,800 Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner Professional Development $1,500 Write Around Portland General Support $18,450 General Support $16,375 Young Audiences of Oregon General Support $29,596 General Support $25,351 The Young People’s Theatre Project** Theatre Project $4,800 14 TOTAL $1,824,640* $1,761,803 *funding year still in progress
  • 16. GRANTS To INDIvIDUAl ARTISTS project GrAntS help fund specific, one-time projects or Note: Due to the unstable economic climate, RACC has deferred performances that take place in the Portland tri-county area. the Artist Fellowship program for 2009. profeSSionAl Development GrAntS support opportunities * Clackamas County-based artist ** Washington County-based artist for artists to improve their business management and/or artistic (The remainder are Multnomah County-based artists) skills. 2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Devon Allen Theatre Project $3,975 Theatre Project $4,000 Smitty Amabilis Professional Development $750 Abra Ancliffe Visual Arts Project $4,102 Abra Ancliffe Professional Development $850 Michelle Anderson Professional Development $1,000 Peter Armetta Theatre Project $5,665 Susan Banyas Multi-Discipline Project $6,000 Michael Beach Music Project $4,432 Everett A. Beidler Multi-Discipline Project $4,731 Emily Beleele Theatre Project $5,668 Barbara Bernstein Music Project $4,050 Andrew Blubaugh Media Arts Project $5,705 www.racc.org Rose Bond** Media Arts Project $5,700 Tiffany Brown Professional Development $1,200 Tracy Broyles Dance/Movement Project $4,382 Inge Bruggeman Professional Development $1,000 regional Arts & culture council Kevin Burke Music Project $4,800 Ryan Burns Visual Arts Project $3,200 Peter Burr Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Brad Carlile** Professional Development $1,750 Jedidiah Chavez Visual Arts Project $3,660 Varinthorn Christopher Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Brandy Cochrane Visual Arts Project $3,864 M.J. Cody* Literature Project $5,626 Bruce Conkle Visual Arts Project $4,604 2009 report to the community Alissa Creamer Media Arts Project $5,548 Carlos Alexis Cruz Theatre Project $4,463 Dicky Dahl Media Arts Project $3,846 Nanette Davis** Professional Development $1,800 Suniti Dernovsek Dance/Movement Project $5,096 To learn more or apply for granTs 15 visiT racc.org/granTs
  • 17. 2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Carl Diehl Professional Development $1,620 Laura Di Trapani** Media Arts Project $4,500 Sarah Dougher Music Project $2,450 Arcy Douglass Professional Development $1,265 Daniel A. Duford Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Tamara English Visual Arts Project $1,715 Professional Development $700 Travis Ezell Media Arts Project $5,175 Colleen M. Flanigan Visual Arts Project $5,397 Sarah Liane Foster Professional Development $878 Liz Fuller Media Arts Project $5,157 Jackie Gabel Music Project $5,387 Catherine Garvin Professional Development $1,425 Alexis Gideon Multi-Discipline Project $4,800 Damien Gilley Professional Development $815 Dan Gilsdorf Media Arts Project $3,392 Jaisen Glogowski Professional Development $1,000 Justin Gorman Professional Development $1,400 Anne G. Greenwood Professional Development $1,535 Cindy Williams Gutierrez* Professional Development $1,744 Heather Hawksford Mount Professional Development $1,200 Chris Harder Theatre Project $5,691 Angelle Hebert Dance/Movement Project $4,782 Professional Development $1,460 www.racc.org Melanya Helene Theatre Project $2,254 Faith Helma Multi-Discipline Project $4,463 Lauren Henkin Visual Arts Project $4,498 Helen Hiebert Visual Arts Project $4,155 Helen Hiebert Professional Development $1,247 regional Arts & culture council LeAnne Hitchcock Multi-Discipline Project $2,848 Hunt Holman* Theatre Project $2,380 Tahni Holt Multi-Discipline Project $5,610 Multi-Discipline Project $5,011 Sarah Horowitz Visual Arts Project $5,444 Deborah Horrell Professional Development $1,000 Jody Hughes Music Project $4,584 Eric Hull Multi-Discipline Project $1,014 Eric Hull Professional Development $1,778 2009 report to the community Bethany Ides Multi-Discipline Project $4,419 Abraham Ingle Media Arts Project $4,750 Kazuyo Ito Music Project $5,381 Music Project $4,205 Diane Jacobs Professional Development $773 Ryan Jeffery Visual Arts Project $4,320 Lawrence Johnson Media Arts Project $4,490 Lawrence Johnson Multi-Discipline Project $ 4,211 16 MyLinda King Music Project $4,536 Joanne Kollman Professional Development $1,500 Holcombe Waller in Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest: Project Grant
  • 19. 2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Agnieszka Laska Multi-Discipline Project $5,099 Horatio Hung-Yan Law Professional Development $900 Erin Leddy Professional Development $400 Suzanne Lee Professional Development $1,200 Alain LeTourneau Media Arts Project $4,313 Alain LeTourneau Innovation Prize $2,500 Brian Lindstrom Media Arts Project-NAP $5,032 Brian Lindstrom Media Arts Project-AF $5,700 Kate MacDowell Professional Development $1,800 Gregory MacNaughton* Professional Development $1,300 Carla Mann Dance/Movement Project $5,960 Allen Mathews Professional Development $1,200 Matt McCormick Media Arts Project $4,718 Media Arts Project $3,492 Alicia McDaid Professional Development $1,400 Mack McFarland Visual Arts Project $1,940 Maldon Meehan Professional Development $1,600 Thara Memory Professional Development $1,500 Genevieve Mercatante Professional Development $375 Kristen Miller Visual Arts Project $5,646 Chaz Mortimer Professional Development $1,000 Jenene Nagy Visual Arts Project $4,434 Professional Development $1,187 Motoya Nakamura Visual Arts Project $5,241 Lorna Nakell Visual Arts Project $4,707 Seth Nehil Multi-Discipline Project $5,700 www.racc.org Kelly Neidig Professional Development $1,700 Mia Nolting Professional Development $1,000 TJ Norris Professional Development $1,100 David Oates Literature Project $4,972 regional Arts & culture council Liz Obert Professional Development $1,376 Andrew Oliver Music Project $5,700 Tara Jane ONeil Professional Development $1,100 Lisa Ornstein Professional Development $2,000 Bruce Orr Theatre Project $4,743 Mary Oslund Dance/Movement Project $4,798 Chris Parkhurst Media Arts Project $4,760 Linnea Osterberg Professional Development $1,750 Melody Owen Visual Arts Project $4,500 2009 report to the community Nance Paternoster Professional Development $1,075 J. D. Perkin Professional Development $1,500 Heather Perkins Music Project $4,500 Leif Peterson Media Arts Project $4,687 Ryan Pierce Visual Arts Project $1,422 Jayanthi Raman** Dance/Movement Project $5,605 Seth Raphael Professional Development $1,500 18 Christopher Reitmaier Professional Development $1,500
  • 20. 2009-10 2008-09 Artist Type Grant Amount Type Grant Amount Gary Robbins Professional Development $1,750 Dmae Roberts Media Arts Project $4,680 Literature Project $5,750 Ethan Rose Music Project $5,400 Professional Development $800 Michelle Ross Visual Arts Project $3,638 Bobby Ryan Theatre Project $4,630 Kaia Sand Multi-Discipline Project $3,615 Francesca Sanders Professional Development $1,013 Blair Saxon-Hill Professional Development $1,500 Marty Schnapf Professional Development $1,000 Helena Schniewind Professional Development $1,368 Carla Schultz Professional Development $1,000 Joe Schneider Visual Arts Project $5,399 Heidi Schwegler Multi-Discipline Project $5,364 Professional Development $1,200 Marie Sivak* Professional Development $1,500 Stephen Slappe Visual/Media Arts $4,277 Installation Project Josh Smith Professional Development $525 Joseph Sneed Visual Arts Project $5,553 Desmond Spann** Multi-Discipline Project $3,060 Desmond Spann** Professional Development $2,000 Kim Stafford Artists Fellowship - $20,000 Literature Tim Stapleton Multi-Discipline Project $3,908 David Stein Visual Arts Project $4,228 www.racc.org Anne Louise Sterry* Professional Development $800 Andrea Stolowitz Professional Development $1,750 Cheryl Strayed Professional Development $952 Barbara Tetenbaum Media Arts Project $5,400 Jamin London Tinsel Professional Development $2,000 regional Arts & culture council Mary-Sue Tobin Music Project $2,925 Lara Triback Professional Development $1,445 Carl Vandervoort Media Arts Project $4,643 Maro Vandorou Visual Arts Project $4,745 Professional Development $1,000 Elaine Velazquez Professional Development $1,500 Jessica Wallenfels Theatre Project $5,098 Holcombe Waller Professional Development $1,430 Shu-Ju Wang Professional Development $900 2009 report to the community Megan Ward Theatre Project $5,100 Marie Watt Visual Arts Project $6,000 Grace Weston Professional Development $1,200 Kelly M. Williams** Visual Arts Project $4,244 Alan Wone* Multi-Discipline Project $4,973 Sharon Wood Wortman Multi-Discipline Project $4,568 Linda Wysong Professional Development $1,500 19 TOTALS: $269,741 $299,448 *funding year still in progress
  • 21. PUBlIc ART RAcc acquires and maintains artworks in public places, enlivening urban and rural landscapes. The Public Art Advisory committee oversees RAcc’s public art program, which is among the oldest and most highly regarded public art programs in the country. PeRceNT FoR ART ART oN THe STReeTS Twenty-nine years ago, the City of Portland and Multnomah Every year Portland’s Bureau of Transportation allocates funds County adopted Percent for Art ordinances that have resulted to RACC for a collaboration that places public artworks along city in more than 1,000 publicly accessible and owned artworks in streets. The program focuses on neighborhoods where the bureau is government buildings, parks, police and fire stations, community making improvements and weaves art into its streetscape designs. centers and along paths and city streets. Two percent of major city and county construction projects is dedicated to public art. projecTs underway or compleTed ....... arTisT Clinton Bike Boulevard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Borrello, Matt Cartwright projecTs underway or compleTed ..... arTisT Dekum Bioswale, Bike Corral/Art Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peg Butler, Buster Simpson Burnside-Couch Couplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LODGE Denver Streetscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mauricio Saldaña City of Portland Archives & Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Keiko Hara Peoples Bike Library of Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Borrello and Vanessa Renwick in collaboration with Zoobomb www.racc.org Director Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Corson East Portland Community Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce West Ed Benedict Skate Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Garland Elizabeth Caruthers Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doug Hollis Fire Station Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jack Archibald regional Arts & culture council Fire Station 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Linda Haworth Gateway District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Bonner Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna Valentina Murch Juvenile Justice Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arvie Smith Kenton Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marlene Bauer Portland Transit Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . new works selected in collaboration with TriMet Resource Access Center/Housing Authority of Portland . . . . . . . . . .Masayuki Nagase South Waterfront Greenway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Buster Simpson Troutdale Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marlene Bauer 2009 report to the community University Place Apartments Redevelopment/ Housing Authority of Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Archibald Waterfront Park /Ankeny Plaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ned Kahn Willamette Greenway Trail on Swan Island (Big Pipe Portal, right). . . . . . . . . .rhiza a + d To view The enTire public arT collecTion, 20 Brian Borello and Vanessa Renwick, People’s Bike Library in Portland visiT racc.org/publicarT Opposite: rhiza A+D, Big Pipe Portal (detail)
  • 23. vISUAl cHRoNIcle PUBlIc ART mURAlS The Visual Chronicle of Portland is a 24-year-old city-owned The Public Art Murals Program provides city funding for artists collection of original works on paper, including paintings, to create murals in neighborhoods throughout Portland. Artists, prints, drawings and photographs. The artworks reveal artists’ business owners and community members work together to perceptions of the city’s distinctive physical, cultural, social and revitalize and beautify their neighborhoods with ambitious and political environments. diverse murals that often include hands-on experiences for people of all ages. in 2009, works were purchased from The following arTisTs: murals funded from july 2008 Through fall 2009: sponsor locaTion and lead arTisT justine Avera David chelsea Kevin farrell jason Greene • Alexis Building: 215 SE Stark - Portland City Art (Chris Haberman, Jennifer Mercede, John Graeter) Bruce hall Alex lilly • Cherry Sprout Produce Market: 722 N Sumner - Jo Jackson, francis X rosica jake Shivery Chris Johanson • Impact Northwest/p:ear: 4635 SE Hawthorne - Rodolfo Serna • KBOO Community Radio: 20 SE 8th - Kevin Fitzpatrick • MIKE Program (Multicultural Integrated Kidney Education Program): 703 NE Hancock - Robin Corbo • Miraflores Community Housing: 8913 N Newell - Hector Hernandez • Mt. Scott Community Center Teen Volunteer Corp.: 5501 SE 72nd Avenue - Tiago DeJerk • Portland State University: 510 SW Hall - Harrell Fletcher • Portland Store Fixtures: 110 SE Main - Teri Payton www.racc.org • Roseway Neighborhood Association: 7215 NE Sandy Boulevard - Angelina Marino, Gary Herd, Joel Heidel, Marlys Mick • St. Mark Presbyterian Church: 9750 SW Terwilliger Boulevard - Esteban Camacho Stefensen regional Arts & culture council • Tabor Commons: 5633 SE Division - Laura Bender, John Early • The Farm Café: 10 SE 7th - Teressa Hamje • Urban Greenspace Institute at the Portland Memorial Mausoleum: 6705 SE 14th - Art FX (Shane Bennett and Dan Cohen) 2009 report to the community 22 Justine Avera, Pondering Murals and Mannequins at Mario’s (Visual Chronicle) Art Fx, Oaks Bottom Mural from OMSI Springwater Trail
  • 24. PoRTlAND BUIlDING GIFTS INSTAllATIoN SPAce Building and caring for the Public Art Collection is a huge undertaking. Fortunately, RACC, the City of Portland and 1120 sw fifTh avenue Multnomah County have generous allies. Individuals, businesses Every year artists are offered an opportunity to create a month- and other groups have made important and varied contributions www.racc.org long installation in a 13’ x 8’ alcove in the Portland Building lobby to our public art collection. This year, we highlight the unique where thousands of city employees and the public pass through relationship that RACC and the City have with the Oregon each working day. A panel of artists and city employees selects Holocaust Resource Center, an organization that was established professional artists and art students based on their proposals and to maintain Washington Park’s Oregon Holocaust Memorial in images of past work. Viewers are invited to share their thoughts and perpetuity. The Center funds all the maintenance that RACC reactions in a comment book placed near the space. regional Arts & culture council provides and supports the City and consultants to preserve this important monument for future generations. 2008-2009 arTisTs Brennan conaway carrie iverson john larsen carolyn matsumoto mAINTeNANce & Re-SITING nickolus meisel paula rebsom Dan Senn Gabe Shaughnessy As the steward for the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collections, RACC devotes substantial resources to rachel hibbard, Sean regan and cara tomlinson maintaining and preserving the region’s cultural assets. 2009 report to the community A significant amount of work goes into determining the location of 2009 sTudenTs all permanently sited public art, but as the urban landscape grows Steven Beatty and laurel Kurtz and changes, RACC must occasionally make adjustments and michael reinsch move large pieces. This decision is never made lightly, especially if the piece was commissioned for a particular site, but these moves Sarah roach and cyrus Smith are made with context and public accessibility foremost in mind. 23 ABOVE: Oregon Holocaust Resource Center volunteer Ruth Bolliger cleans the polished granite of the Memorial Wall; Public Art Gift