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The Regional Arts Culture Council (RACC) has one mission – to enrich our communities through arts and culture. We believe that the arts have the power to change hearts and minds, and to inspire social change. We also believe that arts and culture are key elements in creating desirable places to live, learn, work and visit.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to cultivate equity in all of our programs. Prejudice and privilege have created barriers that RACC must dismantle, systematically and strategically, until everyone in our community has equitable access to arts and culture.

As a RACC team member, your work will help to educate and empower people from all walks of life by providing and promoting access to a diversity of art and cultural experiences. If you’re eager to make a difference, that’s a great start. To best serve our communities, we need commitment – to our mission, our goals and, most importantly, to the people we serve.

If you are ready to be a part of a committed, collaborative team dedicated to our community, we want to talk with you.

Role Summary:

The Operations Coordinator is responsible for the synchronization of workflow through the utilization of tools, communication, and hands on support throughout the organization. The purpose of this position is to keep up agency wide functions to ensure team ability to effectively deliver programs and services.

This vital role will assess multiple competing priorities to maintain an effective workflow with ability to follow through to resolution. The successful candidate will be proactive in their thinking and actions, while remaining enthusiastically collaborative within the team.

Essential functions and responsibilities:

  • Admin Support: Completes a broad range of administrative tasks — including managing RACC Team scheduling calendar, maintaining files, conducting research, and processing expenses.
  • Primary Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for Board Members Produce and organize board-related preparatory materials, including meeting packets and minutes.
  • Respond quickly and amiably to Board members and other leaders’ requests for information.
  • Meeting and Event Support: Assist with office events by coordinating meetings, luncheons, ordering food, utensils, and other necessary supplies to ensure smooth execution.
  • Prepare and set up technology for team and board hybrid meetings, ensuring all participants have the necessary access and equipment.
  • Coordinates the use of and training in software tools across programs, including Asana, Office 365, and Google Workspace.
  • Coordinates operational systems, processes, and infrastructure, while looking for opportunities for improvement or revision.
  • Collaborates with transitions and team onboarding, consultants and off boarding as needed.
  • Supports Operations and org-wide training programs, reinforcing tech and operations infrastructure between departments to ensure consistency and meet quality standards.
  • Phone and Mail Management: Handle incoming and outgoing mail, ensuring timely distribution and processing. Answering office phones and timely response to general email inbox.
  • Office Cleanliness and Supplies: Point person for office space and communication liaison with property management sharing out relevant property updates to ED and Team
  • Maintain a clean and organized office environment, including ordering and tracking office supplies.
  • Other duties as assigned

Required knowledge, skills and abilities:

  • Minimum of two (2) years of recent overall project coordination and administration experience.
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
  • Strong ability to handle many competing priorities at once.
  • Ability to work with detailed and time-sensitive issues.
  • Good decision-making skills and competence in high-pressure situations.
  • Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong ability to monitor and meet project timelines and milestones.
  • Ability to analyze and prioritize work.
  • Ability to take initiative while remaining collaborative within a team.
  • Knowledge of project management software such as Asana, Google Workspace, Office 365.

Status:            Full-Time | Non-Exempt | Hourly

Schedule: 8:30am – 5:00pm  Monday – Thursday

In response to COVID: Hybrid working mode. Our team is currently working in a hybrid model. Flexibility will be required to accommodate events and business needs.

We are a local organization that supports the creative economy in the greater Portland area (Tri-counties of Washington, Multnomah, and Clackamas). As such remote work arrangements, or working for RACC outside of the RACC service area, are approved on a case-by-case basis with a limit of two days per calendar quarter.

Supervisory:        Executive Director

Compensation: $24 – $26 depending on experience

RACC offers excellent benefits, including paid holidays and Flexible Time Off, full medical and dental benefits, a 401(k) plan, and long-term disability and life insurance.

Application Instructions:

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The closing date for this opportunity is October 17, 2024

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Reconfigurations: a New Public Artwork Installed Along Recently Developed South Tabor Access Trail

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Join us for a Celebratory Poetry Reading at Mt. Tabor Park

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 25, 2024

Meech Boakye, Communications Lead, RACC, mboakye@racc.org

Kristin Calhoun, Director of Public Art, RACC, kcalhoun@racc.org

Portland, OR — Join the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) on July 31st at 7 pm to celebrate the recently installed public artwork, Reconfigurations. The evening will take place beside the artwork located on the newly completed multi-modal trail South Tabor Access Trail, at SE 64th Avenue and Division Street to SE Sherman Street.

A collaboration between artists, writers, stones, and trees

Three configurations of stones, poetry and trees are set out along this path.

As the trees grow, the reconfiguring will continue…

Walk slowly. The person you are today will be different than the person you are tomorrow.

Reconfigurations began in 2016 when artist Adam Kuby was selected from the RACC Design Team Roster to join the design team of OPSIS Architecture and Lando Landscape Architecture for the Parks Replacement Bond project at Mt. Tabor Yard and the new access trail. The project took many twists and turns, eventually landing on the idea of three pairs of stones engraved with written text each with a tree in the middle which will eventually move (reconfigure) the placement of the stones over time.

Public Art Director Kristin Calhoun introduced Kuby to Dao Strom of de-canon as a potential collaborator for the written aspect of the work. Alongside Strom, a cohort of six poets was curated including Samiya Bashir, Trevino Brings Plenty, Sam Roxas-Chua, Anis Mojgani, Stephanie Adams-Santos.

Each poet was given the prompt to respond to the word reconfigurations in a poem of 30-40 words. Once they had each written their poems, they mutually decided to blend what they had done individually into a new poem that was then laid out & engraved on the six split stone faces set in three locations along the path.

On July 31st, the poets will read their poem aloud, walking the path alongside artist Adam Kuby and the audience. We hope to see you there! For more information, and recorded readings of the poems, please visit our website.

About the Regional Arts & Culture Council:

The Regional Arts & Culture Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides impactful and transformative funding for artists and nonprofit organizations in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties; manages an acclaimed public art program; leads an advocacy and arts education program; and offers a wide range of technical and professional development workshops. RACC advocates for equity, inclusion, and access, working to build a community in which everyone can participate in culture, creativity, and the arts. We remain steadfast in our mission to enrich every neighborhood we serve.

Reconfigurations

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Documentation of Reconfigurations. Courtesy of Adam Kuby.

On July 31st at 7 pm, we celebrated the recently installed public artwork, Reconfigurations with a poetry reading. The evening will took place beside the artwork located on the newly completed multi-modal trail South Tabor Access Trail, at SE 64th Avenue and Division Street to SE Sherman Street. 

A collaboration between artists, writers, stones, and trees

Three configurations of stones, poetry and trees are set out along this path.

As the trees grow, the reconfiguring will continue…

Walk slowly. The person you are today will be different than the person you are tomorrow.

Reconfigurations began in 2016 when artist Adam Kuby was selected from the RACC Design Team Roster to join the design team of OPSIS Architecture and Lando Landscape Architecture for the Parks Replacement Bond project at Mt. Tabor Yard and the new access trail. The project took many twists and turns, eventually landing on the idea of three pairs of stones engraved with written text each with a tree in the middle which will eventually move (reconfigure) the placement of the stones over time.

Public Art Director Kristin Calhoun introduced Kuby to Dao Strom of de-canon as a potential collaborator for the written aspect of the work. Alongside Strom, a cohort of six poets was curated including Samiya Bashir, Trevino Brings Plenty, Sam Roxas-Chua, Anis Mojgani, Stephanie Adams-Santos.

Each poet was given the prompt to respond to the word reconfigurations in a poem of 30-40 words. Once they had each written their poems, they mutually decided to blend what they had done individually into a new poem that was then laid out & engraved on the six split stone faces set in three locations along the path.

Reconfigurations Full Poem Text

Readings

Introduction

Intro Download (.mp3 file)

Stones Read By Contributors

Stones read by All Contributors

Download Stones Multi-Voice Version (.mp3)

Stones read by Anis Mojgani

Download Stones read by Anis Mojgani (.mp3)

Stones read by Dao Strom

Download Stones read by Dao Strom (.mp3)

Stones read by Sam Roxas-Chua

Download Stones read by Sam Roxas-Chua (.mp3)

Stones read by Samiya Bashir

Download Stones read by Samiya Bashir

Stones read by Stephanie Adams-Santos

Download Stones read by Stephanie Adams-Santos (.mp3)

Stones read by Trevino Brings Plenty

Download Stones read by Trevino Brings Plenty (.mp3)

To download audio files, open the link, right click on the audio playback bar, and select the “save audio as…” option

FY2023-24 General Operating Support Grants

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Learn more about RACC’s General Operating Support program.

General Operating Support Partner Base Awards

Cycle 1 – Reports received in December 2023 and awarded January 2024

  • Artists Repertory Theatre – $45,000
  • Blue Sky Gallery (Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts) – $15,000
  • Boom Arts- $15,000
  • Friends of Chamber Music – $45,000
  • Literary Arts – $60,000
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre – $100,000
  • Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra- $20,000
  • Portland Youth Philharmonic – $45,000
  • Third Angle New Music – $15,000

Cycle 2 – Reports received in February 2024 and awarded March 2024

  • Alberta Abbey Foundation – $20,000
  • Bodyvox – $45,000
  • Caldera – $30,000
  • Chamber Music Northwest – $45,000
  • Coho Productions – $20,000
  • Imago Theatre – $20,000
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony – $30,000
  • Oregon Symphony Association – $175,000
  • Outside the Frame – $20,000
  • Pacific Youth Choir – $15,000
  • PlayWrite – $15,000
  • Portland Art Museum – $175,000
  • Portland Center Stage – $100,000
  • Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble – $15,000
  • Portland Opera – $85,000
  • Portland Playhouse – $45,000
  • Profile Theatre – $30,000
  • Shaking the Tree Theatre – $20,000
  • Street Books – $15,000
  • The Portland Ballet – $30,000
  • Third Rail Repertory Theatre – $20,000
  • White Bird – $30,000

Cycle 3 – Reports received in May 2024 and awarded June 2024

  • All Ages Music Portland (Friends of Noise) – $15,000
  • Arts for Learning Northwest – $45,000
  • Cappella Romana – $30,000
  • Children’s Healing Art Project – $15,000
  • Corrib Theatre – $15,000
  • Echo Theater Company – $30,000
  • Ethos Music Center – $30,000
  • Hand2Mouth – $20,000
  • Hollywood Theatre – $60,000
  • Independent Publishing Resource Center – $15,000
  • Lan Su Chinese Garden – $30,000
  • Live Wire Radio – $30,000
  • My Voice Music – $30,000
  • New Expressive Works – $15,000
  • Northwest Children’s Theater & School – $60,000
  • Northwest Dance Project – $45,000
  • NW Documentary Arts & Media – $15,000
  • Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras – $45,000
  • Oregon Children’s Theatre – $60,000
  • Oregon Contemporary – $20,000
  • PassinArt: A Theatre Company – $15,000
  • PDX Jazz – $30,000
  • PHAME – $30,000
  • Polaris Dance Theatre – $15,000
  • Portland Baroque Orchestra – $30,000
  • Portland Gay Men’s Chorus – $30,000
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art – $45,000
  • Portland Piano International – $20,000
  • Portland Street Art Alliance – $30,000
  • Portland Taiko – $15,000
  • Resonance Ensemble – $15,000
  • The Red Door Project – $30,000
  • Triangle Productions – $15,000
  • World Stage Theatre – $20,000
  • Write Around Portland – $20,000

GOS New Partner Organizations – awarded June 2024

  • North Pole Studio – $25,000
  • OK You –$15,000
  • Open Hearts Open Minds – $15,000
  • Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater – $15,000
  • Vanport Mosaic – $15,000
  • Willamette Light Brigade, dba Portland Winter Lights Festival – $15,000

Capacity Building Organizations participating in FY23-24

  • ArtMax Academy (Washington County) – $25,000
  • Cymaspace – $25,000
  • En Taiko- $25,000
  • Instituto de Cultura e Arte In Xochitl In Cuicatl – $25,000
  • MediaRites – $25,000
  • Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater- $25,000
  • Takohachi- $25,000
  • Theatre Diaspora- $25,000
  • Vanport Mosiac – $25,000
  • World Arts Foundation- $25,000

GOS Investment Awards – awarded June 2024

  • Alberta Abbey Foundation – $20,000
  • All Ages Music Portland (Friends of Noise) – $22,000
  • Artists Repertory Theatre – $11,000
  • Arts for Learning Northwest (formerly Young Audiences) – $13,000
  • Blue Sky / Oregon Center for the Photographic Art – $16,000
  • Bodyvox – $11,000
  • Boom Arts – $22,000
  • Caldera – $20,000
  • Cappella Romana – $13,000
  • Chamber Music Northwest – $20,000
  • Coho Productions – $20,000
  • Corrib Theatre – $11,000
  • Ethos Music Center – $23,000
  • Friends of Chamber Music – $7,000
  • Hand2Mouth – $11,000
  • Hollywood Theatre (Film Action Oregon) –  $22,000
  • Imago Theatre – $11,000
  • Independent Publishing Resource Center – $25,000
  • Literary Arts – $20,000
  • Live Wire Radio – $11,000
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony – $11,000
  • My Voice Music – $22,000
  • New Expressive Works – $13,000
  • Northwest Children’s Theater & School – $20,000
  • Northwest Dance Project – $11,000
  • NW Documentary Arts & Media – $16,000
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre – $20,000
  • Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras – $7,000
  • Oregon Contemporary – $22,000
  • Oregon Symphony Association – $16,000
  • Outside the Frame – $15,000
  • Pacific Youth Choir – $16,000
  • PassinArt: A Theatre Company – $20,000
  • PDX Jazz – $16,000
  • PHAME – $30,000
  • PlayWrite – $16,000
  • Polaris Dance Theatre – $22,000
  • Portland Art Museum – $25,000
  • Portland Baroque Orchestra – $7,000
  • Portland Center Stage – $27,000
  • Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble – $20,000
  • Portland Gay Men’s Chorus – $17,000
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art – $20,000
  • Portland Opera – $11,000
  • Portland Piano International – $5,000
  • Portland Playhouse – $27,000
  • Portland Street Art Alliance – $20,000
  • Portland Youth Philharmonic – $7,000
  • Profile Theatre – $25,000
  • Resonance Ensemble – $22,000
  • Shaking the Tree Theatre – $20,000
  • Street Books – $22,000
  • The Portland Ballet – $13,000
  • Third Angle New Music – $27,000
  • Third Rail Repertory Theatre – $17,000
  • White Bird – $20,000
  • World Stage Theatre – $15,000
  • Write Around Portland – $11,000

 

Community Volunteer: Grand Opening Event

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The Regional Arts Culture Council (RACC) has one mission – to enrich our communities through arts and culture. We believe that the arts have the power to change hearts and minds, and to inspire social change. We also believe that arts and culture are key elements in creating desirable places to live, learn, work, and visit.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to cultivate equity in all of our programs. Prejudice and privilege have created barriers that RACC must dismantle, systematically and strategically, until everyone in our community has equitable access to arts and culture.

Your volunteer work will help to educate and empower people from all walks of life by providing and promoting access to a diversity of art and cultural experiences. If you’re eager to make a difference, that’s a great start.

Community Volunteer: Grand Opening Event

Status: Volunteer

Date: June 1st 10:15am-12:15pm

Location: Errol Heights Park, 4807 SE Harney Dr, Portland, OR 97206

Department Lead | Supervisory: Salvador Mayoral IV-Senior Public Art Manager

Role Summary: 

The Community Volunteer will participate in tabling during the Grand Opening of new work by Mike Suri and Terresa White.

The artist will be presenting their work and displaying models of this work to the general public.

The volunteer’s role will be to ensure these works are protected during the event and to raise awareness in the wider community about RACC, including: our role within the tri-county area and beyond; RACC’s core values and history; our nationally recognized public art programs, and the many opportunities we offer.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

  • Attend virtual RACC volunteer orientation and training, if not already done so.
  • Ensure artists models are not damaged during the event
  • Communicate with the wider community about RACC’s core values, history, public arts, and volunteer opportunities
  • Assist in set up/take down of our table

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Positive energy and people skills
  • Excellent verbal communication skills
  • Ability to stand or sit for up to 2 hours
  • Ability to communicate effectively with diverse groups of people
  • Interest in the arts, culture, arts funding, community engagement, arts & culture advocacy, or arts organizations

Time Commitment Needed:

  • 1 ½-hour training and orientation session if not already done so.
  • 2 hours tabling

Support Provided: 

  • Training and orientation will be provided prior to the event. Exact date to be confirmed
  • Volunteer Handbook for resources and information
  • Travel reimbursement with receipts
  • Team members from RACC, who will be onsite throughout the event to offer insight and support

Suggested Dress:

Volunteers will be expected to be tabling for up to 2 hours, so please wear comfortable clothing and footwear. Bring a hat, raincoat, and special foods if you have specific needs. Please make note of the weather prior to the event and dress appropriately.

To apply:

Please apply by May 29th 12pm.

Spaces are limited

Please fill in this intake form if you are new to the volunteer program:

Please state the role as: “Community Volunteer”.

If you have volunteered before please contact scumming@racc.org

Greg Netzer Appointed Interim Executive Director at the Regional Arts & Culture Council

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Six New Members Join RACC’s Board of the Directors

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

  • Meech Boakye
  • Communications Lead, RACC
  • Email: mboakye@racc.org

Portland, OR — May 1, 2024. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Greg Netzer as Interim Executive Director. With over three decades of strategic consulting and leadership experience, Netzer steps into this role committed to fostering an equitable and thriving creative ecosystem in the Tri-County area.

Greg has been an active member of the arts community as the Executive Director of Wordstock now known as The Portland Book Festival. He was previously involved with RACC as a grant recipient, a panel reviewer, and an advocate for RACC offering testimony before the Portland City Council. As Interim Executive Director, Greg will collaborate closely with the staff, board, and community partners to assess and enhance how RACC serves its stakeholders.

Netzer’s diverse experience ranges from leading Fortune 100 companies to advisory roles in startup nonprofits. His extensive background positions him to lead RACC, providing him with deep insights into effective arts administration, strategic innovation, community engagement, and cultural advocacy.

“Greg Netzer is uniquely equipped to lead RACC during this pivotal time. His vast professional experience and personal dedication to the arts are exactly what RACC needs as we look to the future,” says Kathleen Holt, Interim Board Chair. “We are confident that his leadership will invigorate our new initiatives and strengthen our contributions to the region’s cultural landscape.”

RACC is also excited to announce the appointment of six members to our Board of Directors: Toni Tabora-Roberts, Tammy Jo Wilson, Matthew Landkamer, Mayra Arreola, Carla Pilar Salazar, and Bob Deasy. Jointly, these new members bring a rich spectrum of expertise spanning organizational management, artistic and cultural programming, policy implementation, and financial oversight.

“I’m excited to join the RACC Board of Directors at this inflection point in its history, and I look forward to supporting the staff in re-envisioning the future of RACC and identifying innovative and impactful approaches to continue to foster a lively future for arts and culture in the Metro area,” says newly appointed Matthew Landkamer.

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About the Regional Arts & Culture Council:

The Regional Arts & Culture Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides impactful and transformative funding for artists and nonprofit organizations in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties; manages an acclaimed public art program; leads an advocacy and arts education program; and offers a wide range of technical and professional development workshops. RACC advocates for equity, inclusion, and access, working to build a community in which everyone can participate in culture, creativity, and the arts. For more information, visit www.racc.org.