FY25 Portland Arts Project Grant Awardees

In partnership with the City or Portland’s Office of Arts & Culture, RACC designed and administered the FY25 Portland Arts Project Grant (PAG) program to support the making and sharing of artistic work and the development of the arts community in Portland, Oregon. Individual artists, arts organizations, arts businesses, and other nonprofits applied for grant funding to support arts programs and activities that have community impact. The following 275 Grants were awarded in February 2025 for a total of $1.2 million:

2024-2025 RACC Portland Arts Project Grant awards:

Individual artists:

Funded in partnership with the City of Portland’s Office of Arts & Culture

Individual artists Working Title Primary Artistic Discipline  Award
 Abbey St. John Bedroom Lore #1 – Dreams Visual Arts $2,000
 Adam McWane Horizon Golden Music $5,000
 Ajay Ravi Visiting Artist Series Music $5,000
 Alexandra Burress The Unheard Soundscapes of Forest Park Music $5,000
 Alexandra Loves Roots Journey: Messages From Our Family in Africa Film/Video $5,000
 Allie Hankins By My Own Hand, Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Amanda Arroyo Tiny Gallery St. Johns Visual Arts $2,000
 Amanda Triplett Verdant Sanctuary: Imagining the Guild Lake’s Native Plant Life Visual Arts $4,000
 Andrew Wenzlaff Two sculpture workshops Visual Arts $1,000
 Anthony Hudson 3rd Annual Portland Drag Theatre Workshop Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Anthony Roberto Object, Model, Figure, Form:  time refuses to go by Visual Arts $3,000
 Arminda Gandara A Library for Diaspora Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Ary Solomon Seeding Portland Song Culture Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $5,000
 Austin Stolz Snail Lunch on 16mm Film/Video $3,000
 Bea Yeh Ogden Festival of Hungry Ghosts Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $4,000
 Blair Borax The Color Green: Mixing, Mastering, and CD production Music $5,000
 Bobby Adams Ink & Drink Re-Launch at Sad Valley Bar in 2025 Visual Arts $5,000
 Brad Hansen Concert of Brad Hansen’s Music, by the PSU Chamber Choir Music $5,000
 BrandonLee Cierley Dedications – Third Studio Album (tentative) Music $3,000
 Bryan Smith Postcards From Oregon Music $5,000
 Cameron McCafferty Agent Izzy Bunny Literature $3,000
 Catherine Garvin Cana Cludhmor Harp and Song Recording and Concert Music $5,000
 Cavash  Johnson-Madison WMC (We.Make.Culture) A BIPOC Variety Show Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Cayla McGrail Gilding the Closet: Portland Regional Queer Art History, Space & Place Media Arts $3,000
 Celeste Noche Bye and Bye Visual Arts $5,000
 Charles Xiong Dear Evergreen Visual Arts $5,000
 Chitra Subrahmanyam Phone Voice LP2 Music $3,000
 Chris Lael Larson Cascades Visual Arts $3,000
 Christina Rusnak Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Music $3,000
 Christine Freije The Doppelgänger Project Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Colin Robson Brother vs Robot Debut Album Music $5,000
 Collin Hegna Federale – Unnamed Album #7 Music $3,000
 Cyrus Nabipoor Unwavering Music $4,000
 Dana deLaski The Hard Part Film/Video $5,000
 Daniel Cantu CHIMERA Short Documentary Film/Video $5,000
 Daniel Isaac Brown Ta Hasso: We remember Multi-Discipline $5,000
 David Fuks Alma de Luna workshop Theatre/Musical Theatre $3,000
 Dawn Jones Redstone Appliance of Science Film/Video $5,000
 Devin Tau Sansei Sensibility Film/Video $5,000
 Dominic Rieniets Tales of a Fire Challenged Dragon – A Childrens book Visual Arts $3,000
 Eduardo Jovanovic Paraisos – Music video Film/Video $5,000
 Elliott Miskovicz Climbing the Underwater Ladder Music $3,000
 Eric Jensen Arts Extension through Grant Funding Visual Arts $4,000
 Erika Bolstad Monumental Film/Video $5,000
 Erin Rachel Sonic Sound Lab: Weaving Stories through Sound Exploration Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Erinn Kathryn Hatter Installation for Terrain Group Land Art Exhibition Visual Arts $5,000
 Ethan Van Der Merwe Concorde Film/Video $3,000
 Eva Moss Born Again Film/Video $5,000
 Farah Haidari By Any Means Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Finn Donnelly The Show Show Portland – Winter Multi-Discipline $5,000
 G. Chesler Directing the Documentary with Courtney Hermann Film/Video $5,000
 Genevieve Hildebrand-Chupp Big Soft World Pop-Up Art Park Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Ghan Patel Small Stones Songs Music $3,000
 Gilian Rappaport The Original Fig III Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez Voces de la revolucion (Voices of revolution) Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Gordon Patterson My Brother Lawrence Visual Arts $4,000
 Grace Carter Transcend Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Grace Dunbar Pop-up Solo Show at One Grand Gallery Visual Arts $5,000
 Grady Zerse Caught In A Memory Visual Arts $5,000
 Grant Brady 10 Free Little Art Galleries Visual Arts $4,000
 Hannah Cumming Sea Legs Film/Video $5,000
 Hannah Newman Neural Lithic Futures Visual Arts $5,000
 Heldáy de la Cruz Provecho Magazine Issue 03 Literature $5,000
 Helen Helfand Sculptural Wood Carving Workshop Visual Arts $3,000
 Hibiki Miyazaki Spring Collaborative Exhibition Visual Arts $3,000
 Hyun Jung Jung Living Vicariously Through. Visual Arts $3,000
 Iram Asghar Taking space to heal wounds Multi-Discipline $5,000
 J Wallace Lunar Sessions Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Jack Gibson Don’t Be Scared Film/Video $3,000
 Jacqueline Luna Peña Ritmos de la Tierra (Rhythms of the Earth) Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $4,000
 Jae Nichelle “breaking, broken” community short film screening Film/Video $3,000
 James Jones Music video for The Ghost of James Jones band Music $2,000
 Jamie Fredericks Inner Sanctuary, an album of healing music by Mossy Hymns Music $5,000
 Janet Bebb Five New Pieces Music $5,000
 Jason Edward Davis Back of the Video Store II Visual Arts $2,000
 Jason Rouse Teen Sketch Comedy Program Expansion Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Jennifer Wright Long Strings Music $5,000
 Joanie Fox Beatlore Film/Video $5,000
 Jodie Cavalier Portland Garage Gallery in Irvington Visual Arts $3,000
 Joe Kye Studio Sessions for Upcoming Album “Silk” Music $5,000
 Joeanally Gonzalez Nico’s Adventure: The Journey Through Forest Park Multi-Discipline $5,000
 John Beer Portland Poetry Festival Literature $5,000
 Jordan Isadore you look good, bud (expanded) Dance/Movement $5,000
 Joseph Erikson Class Wars Film/Video $5,000
 Josephine LaCosta A Writer’s Room in Portland Literature $2,000
 Joshua Hood-Marvin Bring the Bows Back Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $5,000
 Joshua Rivera Journey and Ceremony Studio Album and Release Performance Music $4,000
 Josie Mae TWIST Multi-Discipline $3,000
 Julia Gaskill The Bigfoot Poetry Festival 2025 Literature $5,000
 Kale Bolton Creative Healing: Queer Cancer Art Collective Multi-Discipline $2,000
 Karen Polinsky PDXP’s Festival Within a Festival Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Karl Burkheimer Thinking Through Making: poetic polemics on a commitment to process Visual Arts $3,000
 Karma Rivera Debut Album Recording, Mixing and Mastering Music $3,000
 Kate Mura Commissioning Chants for Rebels & Priestesses Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Katie Prentiss Wake Up Maggie Film/Video $5,000
 Katie Sawicki The Cabin Project – Recorded By and For Music $5,000
 Kayla Caldeira Chasing Wind Film/Video $5,000
 Keelan Booth Oaks Park Roller Skating Documentary Film/Video $5,000
 Kelda Van Patten Lift Tighten Treat Transfer Tuck Visual Arts $4,000
 Kelli Pennington Void of Course Visual Arts $3,000
 Kerry Politzer West Coast Brazilian Jazz Collective Music $5,000
 Kevin Truong “Mai American” Community Film Screenings and Impact Campaign Film/Video $5,000
 Kristen Denning Wet Velvet Album Production and Release Music $3,000
 Kristen Pizzo Just Friends Film Screening and Mixer Film/Video $3,000
 KT Kusmaul Mass Movement Dance/Movement $5,000
 Larry  Yes Everyone on this Planet is Family Multi-Discipline $3,000
 Laura Glazer DREAM Publishing Social practice $5,000
 Leland Hull Queer Contact Improvisation Dance/Movement $4,000
 Limei Lai A Life of One’s Own Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Lindsay Kennedy Down to Earth Ceramics Marketplace Visual Arts $1,000
 Lindsey Plotner Dances of Significance Music $2,000
 Liz Howls Pedal Puppets Tour Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Luz Blumenfeld Listening to [Body of Water] Media Arts $2,000
 M F Intact: Solo exhibition at Waterstone Gallery Visual Arts $5,000
 Manuel Abreu home school (2025 curriculum) Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Marcel  Johansen A Portrait of Attraction Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Maria Amelia Randall Come into the Bog Visual Arts $1,000
 Marne Lucas Transmundane Multi-Discipline $5,000
 martin zarzar Wold Fusion Pdx Music $5,000
 Matthew Henderson Vvoyd Center Media Arts $5,000
 Max Mallory Gravitational Pull Issues #3 and #4 Visual Arts $1,000
 May Anuntarungsun Intellectual Property Protection Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Meaghan Sutton Unbridled Spirit Film/Video $5,000
 Megan Chin Anticapitalism Artist Book Club (AABC) Visual Arts $3,000
 Melanie Sevcenko Nice Dissolve Literature $3,000
 Melina Kiyomi Coumas Ocean Moon, Water Mother (海月 水母) Film/Video $5,000
 Mia Arvizu Release Visual Arts $3,000
 Michael Espinoza Stripped to the Bone Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Mieke Bruggeman Quadraphonnes Presents: Moondog – Sax Pax for a Sax – Live at the Alberta Rose Music $5,000
 Miesha Wilson-Harris DejaVu Mixtape Music $4,000
 Miguel Rodriguez Community Plaza Murals Visual Arts $1,000
 Mike Barber Conduit/An Evening of Solos Dance/Movement $5,000
 Mozl Morrissey Transmission Quilts Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $5,000
 Muffie Delgado Connelly Vuelve En La Concha De Tu Madre Dance/Movement $5,000
 Neal McCormick Progress Of The Ribbon Man Visual Arts $2,000
 Nedim Korkmaz Nowruz: A Spring Cultural Event Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $3,000
 Nick Fidelman Diasporic Judaica Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $3,000
 Nicole Williford Solo exhibition at Chefas Projects Visual Arts $5,000
 Ogochimere Ezendokwere Afrodance Experience Vol. 4 Dance/Movement $5,000
 Olga Kravtsova Harvest of Woman Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Pamela Hadley Guild’s Lake Visual Arts $3,000
 Patsy Morris Light as a board, Stiff as a feather Dance/Movement $5,000
 Paul Kim Communal Distractions Media Arts $5,000
 Quincy Davis 7th Wave: Vibes & Flows for Community Healing Music $3,000
 Quinn Amacher Speck Co-mixing Print Run and Reading Visual Arts $5,000
 Rachel Mulder Cyanotype Exhibition + Public Workshop Offerings Visual Arts $2,000
 Rongrong Wang Oregon MeiGui Choir Music $5,000
 Rose City MissChief Rose City MissChief presents ShaRhonda The Musical Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Rose Covert Terrain Land Art in Built Environment Installation Visual Arts $3,000
 Rose Lee Gary (the Foodie) – A Documentary Short Film/Video $5,000
 Rudy Klobas Heritage – Album production and distribution Music $3,000
 Sabina Zeba Haque The New Abnormal Visual Arts $5,000
 Sai Aguru Rasa: Culture & Sound Music $5,000
 Salt Hunter The Listening Box Visual Arts $5,000
 Sam Bangs This is Fine – Post Production Film/Video $3,000
 Samantha de la Vega NO BOX Theater Performance Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Samantha Pinkerton Sam Pinkerton Recording Project Music $5,000
 Samson Syharath Hanuman’s Shadow: Echoes of Laos and America Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Sara Jaffe Earth to You compilation and performance Multi-Discipline $4,000
 Sarah Levy Faces of SB 819 Visual Arts $5,000
 Sascha Blocker The Tortoise, The Hare, & The Bear Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Sean Brown Death of a Drag Queen Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Selene Latrine Selene Latrine’s Outhouse Zine (Issues #4 and #5) Multi-Discipline $4,000
 Sharita Towne Fortifying Black Creative Space: Now & For Future Portland Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Sofia Marks La Mariposa Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Soliana Gonzalez music/culture exchange Music $5,000
 Stacey Clampitt SPELLCAST Wax Carving Workshop Multi-Discipline $4,000
 steven golliday Living Phantom Brother, Album Recording Music $5,000
 Sundance Bleckinger The Cold Plunge Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
 Tahni Holt HORIZON Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Tara Johnson-Medinger Generation Loss Film/Video $5,000
 Tatiana Corbitt Dreamland Film/Video $5,000
 Taylor Wallau Printing for the People Multi-Discipline $3,000
 Terrance Burton Eccentric Visual Art Cultural Exhibition Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Terry Laurents Zentangle Class Series Visual Arts $1,000
 Theresa Hanson Enraptured: An Evening of Dance and Romance Dance/Movement $5,000
 Treasure Lunan Get The Fuck Out; Or, An Exorcism for My Ex Multi-Discipline $3,000
 Tyler Pell Portland Tennis Courterly Visual Arts $5,000
 Ursula Barton Hands On Mural Visual Arts $5,000
 Veronica Fernandez Tithe for the Sinner Film/Video $5,000
 Vivien Wise Crafting Colors of Portland Visual Arts $2,000
 Vo Vo Everywhere and Nowhere Multi-Discipline $5,000
 Wendy  Noonan The Monstrous Feminine Oracle Deck Literature $5,000
 Winona Hwang Finding My Ground Visual Arts $5,000
 Xaramar Floyd Tattoo Startup and Community Outreach Aid for 2025 Multi-Discipline $5,000

 

Arts organizations:

Funded in partnership with the City of Portland’s Office of Arts & Culture and the Arts Access Fund

Organizations Working Title Primary Artistic Discipline  Award
21ten Theatre 21ten Summer Residency Program Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
A Notion, A Scream May 31, 2025 concert Music $3,000
Advance Gender Equity in the Arts ALP in Action Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
after / time collective gallery Exhibition Programming + Creative Research Lab – 2025 Multi-Discipline $5,000
Albina Music Trust Sounds Of Albina Remixed – Vinyl Album & Release Party Music $5,000
Alder Commons Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Indigenous Crafts Multi-Discipline $5,000
Augury House 汝來 Ru Lai (As You Are) Film/Video $5,000
Baksana Ensemble Album Recording and Release Party Multi-Discipline $5,000
Bedrock Theatre Record & Launch Bedrock Theatre’s First Album Theatre/Musical Theatre $3,000
Berm BERM Issue 7 – Arts & Crafts Literature $5,000
BIPOC Adoptees VOICES VOICES, a Celebration of BIPOC Adoptee Authors Literature $5,000
CampOUT Portland CampOUT – LGBTQIA+ Youth Programming Multi-Discipline $5,000
Carnation Contemporary Carnation Contemporary: Portland Artist-Run Gallery Visual Arts $5,000
Cascadia Composers Board-produced concerts for 2025 Music $2,000
Cinema Project 2025 Programming Film/Video $5,000
Columbia Slough Watershed Council I Belong Here 2024-25 Media Arts $5,000
congruency dance collective fractals Dance/Movement $5,000
Couch Film Collective Catalyst Film Collective- Script to Screen short film Film/Video $5,000
Creative Music Guild Improvisation Summit of Portland 2025 Multi-Discipline $5,000
Curbside Serenade 2025 Laurelhurst Park Curbside Serenade Series Music $5,000
Dana Thompson Memorial Fund of Awesome Schools Out Rock Out – after school program Music $5,000
Espacio Flamenco Feria de Portland Multi-Discipline $4,000
Fear No Music Together We Rise: Fear No Music Music $5,000
First Matter Press 4 New Books from First Matter Press Literature $3,000
Futel The Old Town Crier Media Arts $5,000
Gather:Make:Shelter Gather:Make:Shelter Mullowney Print Exhibitions Visual Arts $5,000
Happy Anyway Objects after Absence social practice $2,000
Hoi Phu Huynh Year of the Horse Tết Festival Multi-Discipline $5,000
Homo Superior Productions Homo Superior 2025 Multi-Discipline $4,000
Immutable Studio Immutable Studio Artist-Resident Stipends Media Arts $5,000
In Medio Sing, My Child 2025 Music $5,000
India Cultural Association India Festival 2025 Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $5,000
Japanese Ancestral Society – Ikoi no Kai Home Cooked 2, an intergenerational & collaborative zine cookbook Multi-Discipline $4,000
Kiki Productions Portland Of The Year Ball 2025 Multi-Discipline $5,000
LineStorm Playwrights Fertile Ground New Play Reading Series Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
Lion Speaks Bride Price Community Screening and discussion Film/Video $5,000
Lloyd EcoDistrict Art + Heart: Lloyd Mural, Music, & Street Fair Visual Arts $5,000
Many Hats Collaboration The Hatchery 2025 Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
Medicine Bear Native American Spiritual Encampment RedStone Collective art & culture workshop series Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $5,000
New Wave Opera Historical Women in Opera Music $5,000
nůn studios nůn studios exhibition Visual Arts $5,000
NW Dance & Culture Collective JamBallah NW 2025 Dance/Movement $5,000
Oregon Arts Watch Play-by-Play with Bobby and Susannah Media Arts $5,000
Oregon Karen Association Karen New Year Celebration Folk Arts/Cultural Arts $5,000
Oregon Origins Project Oregon Origins Project VI: The Birth of Cascadia Visual Arts $5,000
Oregon Potters Association Oaxaca Intercultural Exchange Visual Arts $5,000
Oregon Repertory Singers ChoirFestNW Music $5,000
Oregon Society of Artists Veteran’s Art Program Visual Arts $5,000
Outer Voice Outer Voice 2024/2025 Season Multi-Discipline $5,000
Past Lives Past Lives Prison Outreach Guild Visual Arts $5,000
People’s Town Hall The Experiment Film/Video $5,000
Performance Works NorthWest Alembic Artist Residency Program 2025 Dance/Movement $5,000
Portland Child Art Studio Free arts education program at the Vibrant Visual Arts $5,000
Portland Community Media dba Open Signal Portland Music Industry Showcase Film/Video $5,000
Portland in Color HERE: A Passage to Home Multi-Discipline $5,000
Portland Japanese Garden Lost Freedom: A Memory with George Takei Music $5,000
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble PJCE & Mary Flower: Bridging Jazz and American Roots Music Music $4,000
Portland Lesbian Choir 2025 Concerts Music $5,000
Portland Panorama Northwest Filmmakers’ Conference Film/Video $5,000
Portland Revels Spring Revels 2025 Theatre/Musical Theatre $4,000
Portland SummerFest Opera in the Park Portland 2025 Music $5,000
Portland Symphonic Choir Summer Sings 2025 Music $4,000
Portland Zine Symposium Portland Zine Symposium Multi-Discipline $5,000
Pure Bathing Culture Roxi’s Dream Part 2 Music $5,000
Radix Vocal Ensemble One Sweet Chord 2025 Community Sings Music $4,000
Rahab’s Sisters Voices of Fashion: A Community Art Event Multi-Discipline $5,000
Rated Ill A Rose City Story volume 2 Music $5,000
Renegade Opera Bird Songs of Opera 2025 Music $4,000
Risk/Reward 2025 Festival of New Performance Multi-Discipline $5,000
Roots and All Theatre Ensemble Every Pretty Thing Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
Roseway Neighborhood Association Roseway Parkway Plaza Street Mural Visual Arts $3,000
Sabin CDC Summer Block Party 2025 Multi-Discipline $5,000
Shaver Elementary Community Organization Shaver Elementary Community Mural Visual Arts $5,000
Slumber Party Slumber Party Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
Soliloquy fine arts ekphraestival 2025 INTERTWINED exhibition Multi-Discipline $3,000
Souvenir 2025 Programing Support Visual Arts $5,000
Spooky World The Spooky Girls – short film Film/Video $5,000
Stage Fright Stage Fright Festival Fall 2025 Theatre/Musical Theatre $5,000
Steps for Youth Bloom Spring Student Performance Dance/Movement $5,000
Stomping Grounds Arthouse Scare City Film/Video $5,000
Street Roots Ink & Impact: Stories of Street Newspaper Vendors and Cover Art Visual Arts $5,000
Swan Songs Portland OR End-of-Life Concerts 2025 Music $5,000
The City Repair Project Village Building Convergence 2025 Multi-Discipline $5,000
The Mud Room Increasing Ceramics Access for People with Disabilities Visual Arts $4,000
Third Space Third Space: A Community Place Multi-Discipline $5,000
Thompson Elk Fountain Comic Project Weird Like Us: A History of the Thompson Elk Fountain Multi-Discipline $4,000
Vibe of Portland Support for new instructional site in partnership with Alberta Abbey Multi-Discipline $5,000
Waterstone Gallery Programming to Enhance Visibility & Attract New Audiences Visual Arts $5,000
Women In Film – Portland Educate and Incubate Program Film/Video $5,000
Word is Bond The King in Me Exhibition Visual Arts $5,000