By Jeff Hawthorne, Interim Executive Director The Regional Arts & Culture Council is an ever-changing organization, leading initiatives that help artists and arts organizations thrive in the Portland metro area, and using arts and culture as powerful tools to respond to a wide variety of community needs. Once a city bureau, RACC became an independent […]

POSTED ON MARCH 29, 2017. With the retirement of our longtime executive director Eloise Damrosch, the RACC board has begun the process of finding her successor. We are committed to a transparent and inclusive search process resulting in the appointment of an outstanding individual to lead RACC into the future and continue to realize our mission […]

Thank you for supporting the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Work for Art and The Right Brain Initiative. We invite you to keep track of your donations to all cultural nonprofits in Oregon. If you match the total with a gift to the Oregon Cultural Trust, you receive a 100 percent tax credit on your gift […]

Below are the photo credits for the photography featured on the 2017 RACC Workshop postcard: Deena Jones from Dreamgirls, Portland Center Stage at the Armory. (Photo by Patrick Weishampel)   Mexican Dancers, Miracle Theatre/Milagros. (Photo by Russell J. Young) aptART’s Paint Outside the Lines campaign, Kevin Ledo + students of David Douglas High School, 2016 […]