RACC Grant Awards 2007-08
*denotes Clackamas County based artist/arts organization
** denotes Washington County based artist/arts organization
The remainder are Multnomah County based artists/arts organizations.
2007-08 Professional Development Grants, Cycle 1 (6/4/07)
The RACC Professional Development Grant Program assists arts organizations and individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties with activities that improve their business management development skills and/or brings to them to another level artistically. There are two cycles of this grant program in a fiscal year.
INDIVIDUALS
Lura Astor* - $831
Mike Barber - $1,790
Claudia Brown - $1,000
Eric Clanton - $1,539
Laura Di Trapani** - $1,990
Sarah Ferguson - $944
James Jack - $1,922
Roxanne Jackson - $1,000
Kate Mura - $674
Dan Senn**- $1,231
Isaka Shamsud-Din - $1,600
Emily Stone - $988
Alesia Zorn - $1,084
ORGANIZATIONS
3D Center of Art & Photography - $949
Community of Writers - $2,000
Earth and Spirit Council - $1,144
Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls - $1,350
Village Gallery of Arts** - $1,670
TOTAL: $19,295
Top of Page
2007-08 Individual Artist Fellowship in Media Arts: Joanna Priestley (7/2/07)
RACC is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Media Arts: Joanna Priestley. This fellowship, which is presented to a local artist of high merit in rotating disciplines each year, carries a cash award of $20,000. Next year's discipline will be in Literary Arts. Read the press release.
Top of Page
2007-08 General Support Grants (8/21/07)
The General Support Grants Program aims to provide general financial support to arts organizations in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties, based on their artistic excellence, proven service to the community, administrative and fiscal competence and RACC grant compliance. The General Support Grants Program seeks to fund arts organizations and provide a wide range of high quality arts programming made available to the public.
Organizations that are receiving RACC General Support in 2007-08 are:
Artists Repertory Theatre -$49,150
Blue Sky Gallery - $9,505
BodyVox - $19,610
Broadway Rose Theatre Company** - $21,700
Chamber Music Northwest -$45,270
Do Jump Movement Theater - $24,615
Ethos Inc. - $16,450
Friends of Chamber Music -$16,480
Homowo African Arts & Cultures -$19,995
Imago Theatre - $21,355
Lakewood Center for the Arts* - $23,075
Literary Arts, Inc. -$36,220
Metropolitan Youth Symphony - $24,710
Miracle Theatre Group - $24,035
Museum of Contemporary Crafts - $19,585
Northwest Children’s Theater and School - $19,530
Oregon Ballet Theatre - $78,375
Oregon Children’s Theatre - $49,645
Oregon Repertory Singers - $22,890
Oregon Symphony Association - $135,895
Portland Actors Conservatory - $11,130
Portland Art Museum - $157,730
Portland Baroque Orchestra - $15,695
Portland Center Stage - $71,125
Portland Chamber Orchestra - $11,830
Portland Gay Men's Chorus - $12,150
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art - $23,010
Portland Opera Association - $120,790
Portland Taiko - $33,115
Portland Youth Philharmonic - $23,400
Profile Theatre Project - $18,980
Tears of Joy Theatre - $24,975
White Bird - $42,385
Write Around Portland - $14,600
Young Audiences of Oregon - $20,780
TOTAL: $1,279,785
(an increase of 26% from 06-07)
Top of Page
2007-08 RACC Opportunity Grants, Cycle 4 (9/26/07)
The Opportunity Grant Program is funded by the City of Portland and is designed to provide grants to Portland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations to help meet special opportunities or assist organizations with emergencies that arise during the year and that are not part of the applicant’s annual budget or regular programming.
Agnieszka Laska Dancers (Special Opportunity) was awarded $5,500 to host Las Pleyades Danza Contemporanea, from Queretaro, Mexico, who will be touring in the region. Las Pleyades’ visit to Portland will include professional level workshops by both Luis Arreguin and Agnieszka Laska in both technique and choreography. There will be at least one outreach visit to Woodburn High School, which has a large Hispanic population. The Agnieszka Laska Dancers in the past have presented Mexican dancers there, and as Agnieszka Laska is a fluent Spanish speaker, she works well with the students there.
Pacific Artists Foundation (Emergency)was awarded $10,000 to expand marketing effort for their holiday production of La Boutique Fantasque, which will be presented this year for the first time at PSU’s Lincoln Hall. This was an unplanned change of venue that requires an additional marketing effort to fill the larger capacity hall and to attract an audience that has not previously attended their holiday performance due, in part, to their location. For the past 4 seasons this event has been held at PCC’s Sylvania Campus. This marketing project is needed in addition to their regular marketing effort for the holiday production.
Total Awarded $15,500
Top of Page
2007-08 Project Grants to Individual Artists & Organizations (12/11/07)
RACC has awarded $407,462 in RACC Project Grants to 44 individual artists and 47 organizations who will be offering artistic programs for the general public throughout 2008 in the tri-county Portland region. Funding comes from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, Washington County, Metro, and Work for Art, RACC's workplace giving program.
Download a complete listing of the 91 Project Grants 07-08 (pdf)
Top of Page
2007-08 Professional Development Grants (cycle 2) (12/11/07)
RACC has awarded $37,116 to 25 Professional Development Grants (cycle 2) - to 6 organizations and 19 artists. The RACC Professional Development Grant Program assists arts organizations and individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties with activities that improve their business management development skills and/or brings to them to another level artistically. See the listing below:
INDIVIDUALS
John Berendzen - $1,800
Barbara Gilson - $1,780
Susan Goetz Gladstone - $504
Raina Imig - $1,769
Todd Isaacs - $1,800
Sabrina Keen - $1,595
Ping Khaw-Sutherland - $839
Harry C Koufman - $1,363
Mark LaPierre - $1,800
Brenda Mallory - $1,400
Christine McKinley - $1,318
Jill Montgomery - $1,275
Mary Rechner - $494
Vonda Roloff - $1,425
Margaret Kay Slovak - $1,575
Avery Thatcher - $1,800
Cara Tomlinson - $1,320
Cherie Tucker - $1,700
Jeff J. Wallin - $1,800
ORGANIZATIONS
CastIron Carousel Marionette Troupe, Inc. - $1,360
Media Rites - $1,000
Mountain Writers Series - $2,000
Opera Theater Oregon- $2,000
Orlo - $1,400
PDX Pop Now! - $1,999
Top of Page
2007-08 RACC Opportunity Grants, Cycle 5 (12/11/07)
The Opportunity Grant Program is funded by the City of Portland and is designed to provide grants to Portland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations to help meet special opportunities or assist organizations with emergencies that arise during the year and that are not part of the applicant’s annual budget or regular programming.
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (Special Opportunity) was awarded $8,000 to present a play called Emergence-See! In 2006, a slave ship rises out of the Hudson River in front of the Statue of Liberty sending the nation into a whirlwind of emotion and exploration in this explosive solo tour de force featuring slam poetry, multi-character transformation, and song. IFCC has a special opportunity to partner with Oregon Writing Project, Grant High School and Portland Public Schools to present Emergence-See! for two nights at the IFCC Theatre. This one man show by award winning artist Daniel Beaty will be the penultimate to an exciting school residency and the conclusion to the celebration of Black History at IFCC.
Top of Page
2007-08 Opportunity Grants, Cycle 6 (4/2/08)
The Opportunity Grant Program is funded by the City of Portland and is designed to provide grants to Portland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations to help meet special opportunities or assist organizations with emergencies that arise during the year and that are not part of the applicant’s annual budget or regular programming.
Homowo African Arts & Cultures (Special Opportunity) was awarded &8,500 to Homowo's Obo Addy, a National Heritage Award in 1994, to attend and to perfrom, along with Okropong, at the 25th anniversary of National Heritage Award in New York at Town Hall on March 29th. While in New York, we will meet with presenters and others that can hire us in the future. In Portland, we will participate in a reception being sponsored by the Folklife Program of the Oregon Historical Society. In addition, an event is being planned at Lincoln High School for the public.
Portland Civic Theatre Guild (Emergency) was awarded $3,569 to help fund the annual Drammy Awards. The Drammy Committee, a program of the Portland Civic Theatre Guild, has presented a free, public ceremony honoring the best in local theatre for the past twenty-nine years. Professional theatre companies use the awards to help develop audiences and garner fiscal support. For the past eight years, our main support has come from Willamette Week who, last week, told us they could no longer help us financially. The Drammy Committee has no fundraising staff or history and, with less than five months remaining, the ceremony is in jeopardy without emergency funding. Funds will go to support the annual ceremony at the Crystal Ballroom.
Third Rail Repertory Theatre (Special Opportunity) was awarded $30,000. Third Rail Repertory Theatre has made its home at the IFCC since its second production in 2005. Unexpected decisions by the IFCC have left Third Rail suddenly without a home for our 2008-09 season. We would like to turn this unforeseen and regrettable situation into an opportunity for the community and our growing audiences. By moving to the theatre at the World Trade Center next season, we will be able to serve a larger audience from a venue that is more visible and centrally located.
White Bird (Special Opportunity) was awarded $50,000. White Bird learned in early Sept. that Lincoln Hall at Portland State University, home of the WB/PSU Series for 8 years, would close for 2 years, beginning Fall 2008, for deferred maintenance and seismic upgrading. Although this news took us by surprise, we regard this as an opportunity to work with new partners and to excite our growing audience to travel with us on a journey through four Portland neighborhoods. In order to successfully launch and administer White Bird Uncaged we expect program expenses to increase by more than $135,000 next year, approximately 1.5 times the cost of the series at PSU.
Top of Page
2007-08 Opportunity Grant - Cycle 7 (6/24/08)
The Opportunity Grant Program is funded by the City of Portland and is designed to provide grants to Portland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations to help meet special opportunities or assist organizations with emergencies that arise during the year and that are not part of the applicant’s annual budget or regular programming.
Blue Sky Gallery (Special Opportunity) was awarded $3,165. The Gallery has an unexpected chance to show Library of Dust by renowned photographer David Maisel - haunting images of copper canisters containing the unclaimed cremated remains of thousands of residents of the Oregon State Hospital from the 1880’s to the 1970’s. His work would also be shown at the same time in exhibitions that are being planned at the Portland Art Museum and Powell’s Books, to coincide with the publication of his book of the same work. Blue Sky would also show work by Claudio Cricca documenting Italian mental hospitals, and present related talks and panel discussions.
Top of Page
RACC Staff to Contact
Cindy Knapp
Director of Operations
Helen Daltoso
Grants Program Officer
503.823.5402
hdaltoso@racc.org
Ingrid Carlson
Grants Specialist
503.823.5417
icarlson@racc.org
| 
