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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…
What do Newport, Hillsboro, Oregon City, Eugene, Bend, Burns, The Dalles, Echo and LaGrande have in common? Yes, they are all in Oregon… And they will all be…
Culminating a public process that included a survey (Feb. 10-16) identifying the preferred attributes of the ideal candidate and a public meeting (Monday, Feb. 24) to adopt the…
Salem, OR – On February 11, Legacy Cancer Institute’s Nathalie McDowell Johnson, MD., FACS., of Portland was officially confirmed by the Oregon State Senate for her appointment to…
Oregon Arts Commission/OregonCultural Trust Joint Board MeetingMonday, February 24, 20148:00 am – 9:00 amConference Call: 1-877-848-7030passcode: 584 309 8:00 am – Brief Welcome 8:05am – Executive Director Recruitment…