29 Towns Receive Grants From Oregon Arts Commission

ACROSS OREGON - From the Oregon Arts Commission: Small grants that can make a large difference in ensuring arts access for rural Oregonians were awarded to 79 statewide arts organizations by the Oregon Arts Commission for the 2018 fiscal year.

Awarded to arts organizations in 29 towns and cities across the state, Small Operating Grants are designed to provide operating support to arts organizations with budgets under $150,000.

Eligibility is limited to organizations who have operated as an IRS recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit for two years or more. Most organizations received $1,230.

For the volunteer Inland Northwest Musicians, who travel Northeast Oregon presenting orchestral concerts, that $1,230 literally puts gas in the tank.

"This grant program was developed to increase the Arts Commission's support of Oregon's small arts providers," said Commission Vice Chair Anne Taylor. "These organizations frequently represent the only arts presenter for remote and underserved regions of the state."

For more information about the grant program, contact Brian Wagner at (503) 428-1981 or via email at brian.wagner@oregon.gov.

2018 Small Operating Grants were awarded to:

• Arts & Cultural Alliance of Central Oregon, Bend
• Ash Creek Arts Center, Independence
• Ashland New Plays Festival, Ashland
• Bach Cantata Choir, Portland
• Bandon Showcase, Inc., Bandon
• Base Camp Studio, Bend
• Boom Arts, Portland
• Bump in the Road Theatre, Portland
• Cascadia Chapter of NACUSA, Cascadia Composers, Portland
• Cascadia Concert Opera, Eugene
• Center for Architecture, Portland
• Chamber Music Amici, Eugene
• Chamber Music Corvallis, Corvallis
• Chintimini Chamber Music, Corvallis
• Choro In Schola, Beaverton
• Classical Up Close, Tigard
• Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association, Hood River
• Confluence: The Willamette Valley LGBT Chorus, Salem
• Corvallis Guitar Society, Corvallis
• Corvallis Repertory Singers, Corvallis
• CymaSpace, Portland
• Dance Wire, Portland
• Delgani String Quartet, Eugene
• Drexel H. Foundation, Vale
• Experience Theatre Project, Beaverton
• Fear No Music, Portland
• Florence Regional Arts Alliance, Florence
• Gallery Calapooia Inc, Albany The Geezer Gallery, Portland
• Girl Circus, Eugene
• Greater Eugene Chorus/SWEET ADALINES, Eugene
• Hand2Mouth, Portland
• Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest, Portland
• Hillsboro Community Youth Choir, Hillsboro
• Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra, Hillsboro
• Hillsboro Visual Art Assoc dba Sequoia Gallery and Studios, Hillsboro
• Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita
• Inland Northwest Musicians, Hermiston
• Kukatonon Childrens African Dance Troupe, Portland
• Live On Stage, Portland
• MediaRites, Portland
• Mid-Valley Prelude Sinfonia Inc, Albany
• Monday Musical Club of Tillamook, Tillamook
• Music Education & Performing Artists Association, Eugene
• North Coast Chorale, Astoria
• Northwest Print Council, Portland
• One World Chorus, Lake Oswego
• Oregon Arists Series Foundation, Salem
• Oregon Symphonic Band Inc, Beaverton
• Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Portland
• Painted Sky Inc, Tigard
• Paradise of Samoa, Keizer
• Performance Works NW, Portland
• Portland Chamber Music, Portland
• Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Portland
• Portland Festival Symphony, Portland
• Portland Jazz Composers' Ensemble, Portland
• Portland Story Theater, Portland
• Risk/Reward, Portland
• Riverbend Live!, Winston
• Rogue World Music, Ashland
• Rural Art Center, Lorane
• Salem Philharmonia Orchestra, Salem
• Scalehouse, Bend
• Secret Knowledge, Portland
• Signal Fire, Portland
• Southern Oregon Guild, Kerby/Cave Junction
• Stories Alive, Ashland
• Sunriver OR Stars Community Theater, Sunriver
• The Dalles Art Association, The Dalles
• The Piano Santa Foundation, Portland
• The Verona Studio, Salem
• Theatre 33 on the 45th, Salem
• Twilight Theater Company, Portland
• Wallowa Valley Music Alliance, Enterprise
• West African Cultural Arts Institute, Eugene
• Westside Cultural Alliance, Beaverton
• Willamette Jazz Society, Eugene
• Willamette Valley Symphony, Albany

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