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Today is Grant Application Deadline. Now, What’s Next?

Cultural Trust Development Grant applications are due TODAY at 5pm! Once that deadline has passed, Cultural Trust staff will read and summarize applications and enter the information into…

Opinion Pieces Abound in Support of the Cultural Tax Credit

From Pendleton to Medford, from Sisters to McMinnville, 15 business, arts and community leaders across Oregon wrote opinion pieces in support of the Cultural Trust for their local…

Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Humanities Make New Hires

The Oregon Arts Commission’s new assistant director, former Corvallis Arts Center Executive Director David Huff, will join the Commission on May 17, 2013. Prior to his two-year position…

Ethos Music

Ethos Music

  The 2012-13 academic year is almost over and summer vacation is quickly approaching. But for one Cultural Trust grantee and 10 AmeriCorps volunteers, there is still a…

Tribes Enjoy Excellent Relationship with the Trust

Tribes Enjoy Excellent Relationship with the Trust

From Pendleton to Beaverton, from Coos Bay to the Umpqua River, Native American culture is Oregon culture. Tribal arts, music and dance, history and tradition make up a…

Partner Focus: Oregon Historical Society Expands Digital Outreach

Oregon Historical Society may specialize in tactile primary source material, in rooms and rooms of historic photos, letters, manuscripts, artifacts and documents, and in interactive exhibits for the…

Where is Oregon’s Poet Laureate?

Where is Oregon’s Poet Laureate?

National Poetry Month began April 1, and Paulann Petersen, Poet Laureate of Oregon, has spent the first two weeks of it racking up travel miles. She has driven…

Portland Japanese Garden

Portland Japanese Garden

“Isamu Noguchi: We Are the Landscape of All We Know” Comes to the Portland Japanese Garden May 3 – July 21 In honor of its 50th Anniversary celebration,…

Oregon Cultural Tax Credit Moves Through House and Senate

Oregon Cultural Tax Credit Moves Through House and Senate

Oregon’s cultural tax credit, in use since it was approved by the Legislature in 2002, will sunset at the end of 2013. The Governor recommended renewal of the…

Partner Focus: Oregon Heritage Commission Seeks and Designates “Heritage All-Star” Communities

Rife with heritage sites, homes, museums, a carousel and a 150-year old mill, not to mention antique stores and historic downtown, Albany, Oregon is indeed a model heritage…

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Brings The Unfortunates to its 2013 Season As part of its 2013 season, Oregon Shakespeare Festival presents The Unfortunates, an original play conceived and developed by 20 artists…

Oregon Wine History Archive, Linfield College

Oregon Wine History Archive, Linfield College

The Oregon Wine History Archive (OWHA), founded in 2011 at Linfield College in McMinnville is working to document all aspects and preserve historical materials from all regions of…

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