Following a preliminaryround of interviews Wednesday, the screening committee for the Oregon ArtsCommission/Oregon Cultural Trust executive director search has elected toreopen the search to ensure a pool of…
Did you know 4,600 barns were built by Oregon Trail Settlers through Willamette Valley land claims from 1841 and 1865? And did you know only 23 remain?…
Many of us remember Madeleine L’Engle’s 1970s sci-fi fantasy, A Wrinkle in Time. Theatre buffs can now see Tracy Young’s adaptation of this children’s classic, as Tesseracts, Black…
April 15 is tax day, and those who gave to the Cultural Trust last year may have received (or be expecting) an Oregon state refund or lower tax…
Guest Blog by Oregon Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen: Our earth’s circumference is 24,902 miles. Today—April 9,2014—as Oregon’s Poet Laureate I’ve traveled25,745 miles within Oregon’sboundaries giving workshops and…
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend two mornings with Trust grantee, Portland Opera to Go (POGO). Here’s what I found: Peals of laughter ripple…
Just in from Oregon Heritage Commission about heritage-based grants this cycle: Museums that want to undertake projects related to heritage tourism, heritage collections or heritage education and interpretation…
By the time the job posting closed Thursday, more than 40 people had applied to become the next executive director of the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon…
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor may have had Nancy Drew as a role model in her youth, but hundreds of Multnomah County high school students will now have…
Trust Partners Provide Increased Cultural Coalition Support Activity No matter where you are living in Oregon, if you’re involved with culture, you will see more of the Cultural…
One of many fascinating facts about Legacy Cancer Institute’s Nathalie McDowell Johnson, MD., FACS.: before she became a surgical oncologist and Medical Director of the Legacy Breast Health…
The term “Native art” should never be a path to a stereotype, and Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft has been hard at work debunking the myth of homogeneity…