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Get our latest news or learn about some of the life-changing cultural projects we’ve funded across the state. Also hear from our many cultural partners about how their work is making Oregon a better place to live, work and play.

Willamette Week Give!Guide is Live

The Cultural Trust is fortunate to have wonderful media partnerships, including our Days of Culture partnership with Pamplin Media/Community Newspapers, which resulted in a widely distributed special insert…

Make Your Cultural Life List!

Make Your Cultural Life List!

Planning travel and event attendance is always fun! Two weeks ago, the Cultural Trust launched a new, interactive web activity to help you do just that. Oregon Culture…

More Cultural Tourism Love for Eastern Oregon

More Cultural Tourism Love for Eastern Oregon

Recently our staff took a trip to Eastern Oregon along the Journey Through Time Scenic Byway and blogged about it. Here is a little more love for Eastern…

What’s On Your Life List?

What’s On Your Life List?

I moved to Oregon in June, 1999 and had been wanting to visit the Painted Hills and Kam Wah Chung for about that long. But for 14 years,…

Talk is Cheap… Or is it? Guest News by Oregon Humanities Director Adam Davis

Talk is Cheap… Or is it? Guest News by Oregon Humanities Director Adam Davis

A guest at a recent gathering responded to a presentation about Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project with this: “You know, talk is cheap. What about taking it to the…

Arts Council of Pendleton

Arts Council of Pendleton

Received a grant of $5,000 to deliver free cultural programming, including Art Rocks Teens, ArtZoom, Arts Have Class, and Art Studio, to 5,000 people at the Pendleton Center…

Crow’s Shadow Institute

Crow’s Shadow Institute

Awarded $5,851, to support efforts to generate earned revenue from print sales through an improved website, enabling patrons to purchase work online and increasing opportunities for print sales…

Rivoli Theater Restoration Coalition

Rivoli Theater Restoration Coalition

Received $5,000 to support asbestos abatement and a structural assessment of the Rivoli Theater, a historic building in Pendleton, which The Rivoli Theater Restoration Coalition intends to restore…

Pendleton Focus

The Pendleton Roundup may be one of Oregon’s signature events, but it is not the only major cultural event in Umatilla County. The Happy Canyon Foundation partners with…

Happy Canyon Foundation

Happy Canyon Foundation

Awarded $35,000 to upgrade the Happy Canyon grandstands for participant safety; to add new restrooms, seating and an elevator; to replace existing meeting facilities and concession areas and…

Northwest Dance Project

Northwest Dance Project

Northwest Dance Project received a Cultural Trust grant for the creation and premiere at Lincoln Performance Hall of three new contemporary dance works by three award-winning choreographers mentored…

My First Cultural Memory

My First Cultural Memory

During two Days of Culture events, the Cultural Trust posed the question: What was your first cultural memory? Staff and volunteers were intrigued watching certain patterns develop as…

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