For Immediate Release
August 2, 2004

Contact:
Contact: Christine D'Arcy, (503) 986-0087, christine.t.darcy@state.or.us

Cultural Trust Distributes Funds for 2005:
Awards Cultural Development Grants and Grants to Cultural Coalitions and Cultural Partners

On July 30, 2004, the Oregon Cultural Trust Board approved the distribution of $772,602 from the Trust fund for fiscal year 2005 and awarded grants in each of the Trust's three grant categories.

The Cultural Trust, an ambitious plan to raise new funds to preserve and strengthen Oregon's culture, the arts, heritage and the humanities, offers competitive Cultural Development Grants to cultural organizations, Cultural Participation Grants to recognized county and tribal cultural coalitions, and grants to Oregon's statewide cultural partner agencies.

"The Trust's 2005 grants are particularly significant since they mark the first time that Oregon's county and tribal cultural coalitions will make local investments in culture with funds from the Trust's Cultural Participation program. The $240,000 in this program will be re-granted to allow local historical societies, libraries and arts groups to take on projects that are local priorities," said Charlie Walker of Neskowin, Chairman of the Cultural Trust Board. "Every Oregon community has cultural assets, and the Trust is relying on the experience and knowledge of the new cultural coalitions to make grants in alignment with local cultural plans."

The Trust's competitive Cultural Development Grants provide state recognition and support to significant cultural programs and projects, preserving and enhancing Oregon's diverse arts, heritage and humanities efforts. In response to a call for applications, the Trust received 95 proposals requesting over $1.7 million. Grants totaling $240,100 were awarded to 25 organizations to support projects that increase opportunities for Oregonians to participate in culture or which preserve cultural assets.

"Oregon culture plays an integral part in economic revitalization and in maintaining quality of life. Through historic preservation, cultural tourism or civic engagement, cultural activity enlivens our neighborhoods and develops community," said Christine D'Arcy, executive director of the Oregon Arts Commission and of the Cultural Trust. "The Cultural Trust was created to help every community invest in culture and the 2005 grants will do just that."

The Cultural Trust also awarded grants totaling $240,000 to Oregon's statewide cultural partner agencies, the Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Oregon Heritage Commission, Oregon Historical Society and the State Historic Preservation Office. A portion of the allocated funds is reserved for collaborative projects undertaken by these statewide partners, leveraging the Trust's support for broader reach across Oregon.

A list of all grants awarded by the Oregon Cultural Trust on July 30, 2004, follows.

Competitive Cultural Development Grants (25 grants) : $240,101

Ashland
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, $10,000
Project: Expanded Access for Oregon Youth
To support five programs for Oregon students: special matinees, the Bowmer Project for Student Playgoers, school visits, school visit partnerships and professional development.
Contact: Paul Nicholson, pauln@osfashland.org (541) 482-2111 x 222

Bend
The High Desert Museum, $10,000
Project: "The Legacy of Lewis & Clark: Exploring the American West"
To support the exhibit, "The Legacy of Lewis & Clark: Exploring the American West", telling the two century story of cartographic and scientific exploration inspired by Lewis and Clark's crossing of the continent.
Contact: Kelly Cannon-Miller, info@highdesertmuseum.org (541) 382-4754

Corvallis
Calyx, $ 7,000
Project: New Voices / New Readers Program
To support production and publication of two issues of The Calyx Journal and to build the capacity of Calyx by upgrading its website and developing an email marketing program to Oregon audiences.
Contact: Margarita Donnelly, calyx@proaxis.com (541) 753-9384

Eugene
Adelante Si Hispanic Organization, $2,000
Project: 2004 Fiesta Latina
To support Fiesta Latina, a community oriented cultural enrichment event that attracts 15,000 people. Adelante Si, the only Hispanic organization in Lane County that promotes the arts, will hold the 13th Festival at Island Park in Springfield in September 2004.
Contact: Rebeca Urhausen, fiestaeugene@aol.com (541) 344-5070

Eugene Ballet, $15,000
Project: Touring in Oregon
To support the "Touring in Oregon" project bringing Eugene Ballet's "The Swing Kings" and "The Nutcracker" and two education programs to 18 Oregon communities. Performances, residencies and outreach services will be presented.
Contact: Riley Grannan, riley@eugeneballet.org (541) 687-9487

Eugene Opera, $5,000
Project: OPERA*tunities
To support the OPERA*tunities program which will provide educational programming in opera for 12,450 students, grades K-12 throughout Lane County during the 2004-05 school year.
Contact: Robert Ashens, Robert@eugeneopera.org, (541) 485-3985

Joint Forces Dance Company, $2,000
Project: "Reaching to Return" New Work
To support the development of "Reaching to Return", a new 45 minute dance piece appropriate for children and adults. The new piece will use disabled and other dancers/artists and explore prostheses and technological extensions of humans.
Contact: Alito Alessi, alito22@yahoo.com (541) 342-3273

Oregon Council for Business Education, $15,000
Project: Oregon Crafted
To support Oregon Crafted, a pilot "arts trail" system and program designed to increase visibility of and access to the works of artists and handcrafters in Linn, Lane, Benton and Lincoln counties through tourism.
Contact: Joan Shea, ocbe@comcast.net (541) 687-8353

Jacksonville
Peter Britt Gardens Music & Arts Festival Association, $2,100
Project: Andre Watts performance of Beethoven concertos
To support the three night series performance of all five Beethoven piano concertos by acclaimed pianist Andre Watts during Britt's summer classical festival in historic Jacksonville. Watts will perform with the 100 –member Britt Orchestra led by Maestro Peter Bay.
Contact: Ron McUne, gm@brittfest.org (541) 779-0847

John Day
Oregon State Parks Trust, for the Kam Wah Chung Museum, $10,000
Project: Kam Wah Chung Museum
To support the restoration of the Kam Wah Chung Museum (1860's), the oldest known collection of Western Chinese culture in the United States. A temporary visitor center and displays will be developed.
Contact: Sharon Leighty, info@orparkstrust.org 800-497-2757

Lincoln City
Cascade Head Music Festival, $5,000
Project: Support for the 2005 Festival
To support the 2005 festival including six concerts and three educational programs involving international musicians playing on period instruments.
Contact: Martha Payne, admin@cascadeheadmusic.org (541) 764-2859

Oregon City
Baker Cabin Historical Society, $2,000
Project: Historic Roof Replacement
To support replacement of the roof of the 1895 German Methodist Church moved to their site in 1967. The building represents a typical pioneer church.
Contact: Chris Guntermann, info@bakercabin.org (503) 631-2747

Oregon Trail Foundation on behalf of Clackamas Heritage Partners, $10,000
Project: Clackamas Heritage Partnership
To support the development of a new sustainable 501c3 heritage organization merging the heritage organizations in Oregon City: Clackamas County Historical Society, Oregon Trail Foundation, and McLoughlin Memorial Association. The project has city, county and tourism partners in place.
Contact: David Porter, trlboss@att.net (503) 557-1151

Pendleton
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, $15,000
Project: Living Cultural Village
To support the development of a Living Cultural Village at the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute in which visitors will observe distinct tribal cultural activities while learning that tribal members are modern people who carry on a living culture of ancient practices.
Contact: John Chess, john.chess@tamastslikt.org (541) 276-3629

Portland
Bosco-Milligan Foundation, $15,000
Project: Architectural Heritage Center
To rehabilitate the West's Block Building (1883), the oldest commercial building in Portland's Central Eastside Historic District, as the Architectural Heritage Center. The center will house the fifth largest collection of building artifacts in the county, recording the history of the regional building industry.
Contact: Cathy Galbraith, info@architecturalheritagecenter.org (503) 231-7264

Ethos, Inc., $10,000
Project: Music Across Oregon
To support Ethos' Music Across Oregon program bringing music education to rural Oregon communities through classes, teacher trainings, multicultural music assemblies and a hands-on music lab. The Music Across Oregon Program and Ethos' Music Mobile will bring music education to 16 communities in Oregon in 2004, including 10 Oregon counties with the largest Hispanic populations.
Contact: Charles Lewis, charles@ethos-inc.org (503) 241-8824

KBPS Public Radio Foundation, $15,000
Project: New Transmitter and Antenna
To support the acquisition of new transmitter and antenna equipment to allow the station to broadcast classical music digitally to an additional 134,000 listeners.
Contact: Kathy Merritt, Kathy@allclassical.org (503) 916-5828 x400

Imago Theatre, $5,000
Project: Imago's Original Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"
To support the development of an original work influenced by Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya." The production will fuse design and theare, plastic arts, animation and Lecoq study.
Contact" Jerry Mouawad, Carol Triffle, carolandjerry@imagotheatre.org, (503) 231-3959

The Library Foundation, $10,000
Project: Children Connecting with Authors and Artists
To support "Children Connecting with Authors and Artists", the Multnomah County Library's series of children's authors visits and artists' exhibits involving 5,000 young people and educators.
Contact: Karie Trumbo, kariet@libraryfoundation.org (503) 988-6287

Oregon Children's Theatre Company, $5,000
Project: The BFG's Big Impact
To support expanded and integrated cultural and educational outreach for the production, "The Big Friendly Giant", including library displays, teacher mailings and an online discussion guide.
Contact: Marta Mellinger, marta@octc.org (503) 228-9571

Oregon Symphony Association, $10,000
Project: Community Music Partnership
To support the Community Music Partnership , a music residency program designed to serve rural or remote communities in Oregon with populations of 30,000 or less.
Contact: Leslie Tuomi, ltuomi@orsymphony.org (503) 228-4294

Portland Art Museum, $15,000
Project: People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory
To support a special exhibition bringing together for the first time 190 objects created by Native Americans of the Columbia River Region. The exhibit has been planned in consultation with tribal leaders and is a sanctioned event of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial. The exhibition and educational programming will include teacher workshops, school tours, and three scholarly symposia.
Contact: Diane Durston, info@pam.org (503) 226-2811

Regional Arts & Culture Council, $15,000
Project: Workplace Giving Program
To support RACC's new Workplace Giving Program encouraging payroll deduction contributions and gifts from employees at work sites in Portland to support arts and culture in the community – and to increase philanthropy for local arts and culture organizations.
Contact: Jeff Hawthorne, jhawthorne@racc.org (503) 823-5111

Sojourn Theatre, $9,000
Project: Witness Our Schools
To support "Witness Our Schools", a documentary theatre and community dialogue project about public education in Oregon. Based on interviews with nearly 1,000 diverse Oregonians of all ages, this original show will be performed in urban, rural and suburban communities statewide as the centerpiece of "town meeting" dialogue events.
Contact: Alisha Tonsic, alias.tonsic@sojourntheatre.org (971) 409-2735

Salem
Salem Art Association, $5,000
Project: Preservation of Oregon's Artistic Heritage
To support the Preservation of Oregon's Artistic Heritage project, a video and education project documenting the lives of two of Oregon's noted elderly artists, Leroy Setziol and Jack McLarty. Statewide arts education curriculum and a new website will also be developed.
Contact: Sara Swanberg, sara@salemart.org, (503) 581-2228

Silverton
Gordon House Conservatory, $10,000
Project: Gordon House Restoration
To support restoration of cedar boards and battens at the Gordon House now sited at the Oregon Garden. The Gordon House is the only structure in Oregon designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the only Frank Lloyd Wright structure in the Pacific Northwest open to the public.
Contact: Elsa Coleman, gordonhouse@oregongarden.org, 503-874-6006

The Dalles
Civic Auditorium Preservation Committee/Mid-Columbia Music Teachers Association, $5,000
Project: Piano for the Civic Auditorium in The Dalles
To support the purchase of a performance quality grand piano for use in the renovated Civic Auditorium in The Dalles. Students of the Mid Columbia Music Teachers have already raised over $15,000.
Contact: Janet P. Swartz, pkswartz@gorge.net, (541) 298-8807

Cultural Participation Grants for County and Tribal Cultural Coalitions (45 grants): $240,101

Cultural Partner Grants: $240,101
By statute, 20% or $48,020 is reserved for collaborative projects.
The remaining $192,081 is allocated by formula, with 1/3 going to each:

More information about the Oregon Cultural Trust and Oregon's innovative cultural tax credit is available from the Trust, 775 Summer Street NE, Suite 200, Salem, Oregon 97301-1284, (503) 986-0088, or online at www.culturaltrust.org.