RACC Grant Awards 2006-07
*denotes Clackamas County based artist/arts organization
** denotes Washington County based artist/arts organization
The remainder are Multnomah County based artists/arts organizations.
2006-07 General Support Awards (6/28/06)
The RACC General Support Grant Awards are made up of three separate funding pools: General Support, Community Outreach Bonus, and Work for Art funds. The program aims to provide general financial support to arts organizations in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties, based on their artistic excellence, proven service to the community, administrative and fiscal competence, and RACC grant compliance. The General Support Grant Program seeks to fund arts organizations and provide a wide range of high quality arts programming made available to the public. The 35 organizations below were selected to receive General Support funds for two years. This listing below is for the 2006-07 fiscal year, ending June 30, 2007.
Artists Repertory Theatre -$41,400
Blue Sky Gallery - $6,600
BodyVox - $14,500
Broadway Rose Theatre Company** - $15,800
Chamber Music Northwest -$37,100
Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery - $11,900
Do Jump Movement Theater - $16,900
Ethos Inc. - $11,600
Friends of Chamber Music -$11,600
Homowo African Arts & Cultures -$14,700
Imago Theatre - $13,800
Lakewood Center for the Arts* - $15,800
Literary Arts, Inc. -$27,700
Metropolitan Youth Symphony - $19,300
Miracle Theatre Group - $17,800
Northwest Children’s Theater and School - $15,100
Oregon Ballet Theatre - $66,800
Oregon Children’s Theatre - $39,300
Oregon Repertory Singers - $16,300
Oregon Symphony Association - $123,100
Portland Actors Conservatory - $6,600
Portland Art Museum - $141,100
Portland Baroque Orchestra - $8,500
Portland Center Stage - $58,800
Portland Chamber Orchestra - $6,600
Portland Gay Men's Chorus - $6,900
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art - $15,700
Portland Opera Association - $104,800
Portland Taiko - $25,400
Portland Youth Philharmonic - $16,700
Profile Theatre Project - $14,100
Tears of Joy Theatre - $16,800
White Bird - $33,500
Write Around Portland - $10,400
Young Audiences of Oregon - $13,600
TOTAL: $1,016,600
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2006-07 Professional Development Grants, Cycle 1 (6/28/06)
The RACC Professional Development Grant Program assists arts organizations and individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties with activities that improve their business management development skills and/or brings to them to another level artistically. There are two cycles of this grant program in a fiscal year.
INDIVIDUALS
Claire Barnes - $550
Jonnel Covault* - $750
Lilian Gael - $640
Mel George - $1,363
Sara Halprin - $1,200
Jason L. Jones** - $1,500
Suzanne Lee - $1,035
Kirk Lybecker - $1,125
Eugenia Pardue - $1,125
Nance Paternoster - $1,200
ORGANIZATIONS
Art on the Peninsula - $1,196
Aurora Chorus - $1,450
Beaverton Arts Commission** - $1,200
Cinema Project - $986
Live On Stage - $1,050
Nomadic Theatre Company - $1,000
NW Documentary Arts & Media - $800
Pendulum Aerial Dance Theatre - $1,125
TOTAL: $19,295
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2006-07 Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts: Henk Pander (6/30/06)
RACC is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Individual Artist’s Fellowship Award in Visual Arts: Henk Pander. This fellowship, which is presented to a local artist of high merit in rotating disciplines each year, carries a cash award of $20,000. Next year's discipline will be in Media Arts. Read press release.
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2006-07 Project Grants to Individual Artists & Organizations (12/6/06)
RACC has awarded $376,329 to 38 individual artists and 59 organizations who will be offering artistic programs for the general public throughout 2007. This is the highest amount of Project Grants ever awarded by RACC in one year. Funding comes from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, Washington County, Metro, and Work for Art, RACC's workplace giving program. (see press release).
 Download a complete listing of Project Grants (pdf)
RACC has preferred this time to supply a brief description of each of the 97 projects rather than just a listing of names and amounts.
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RACC Professional Development Grants (cycle 2) (12/6/06)
The Professional Development Grant Program assists arts organizations and individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties with activities that improve their business management development skills and/or brings to them to another level artistically.
Individual Artists
Lisa Conway - $1,500
Heidi Preuss Grew - $1,500
Faith Helma - $1,140
Sean Patrick Hill - $1,103
Clay Hoffman** - $1,200
Todd Kurtzman - $1,404
Aaron Link - $1,350
Allen Mathews - $814
Lorna Miller - $932
Gigi Rosenberg - $997
Cathy Rae Smith - $1,350
Cheryl Strayed - $1,200
Joe Thurston - $1,023
Grace Weston - $1,240
Organizations
Performance Works Northwest - $1,200
Portland Symphonic Choir - $1,500
TOTAL: $19,453
Download a Complete Listing of Professional Grants, Cycle 2 (pdf)
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RACC Opportunity Grants (cycle 1) (March 21, 2007)
The Opportunity Grant Program is funded by the City of Portland and is designed to provide grants to Portland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations to help meet special opportunities or assist organizations with emergencies that arise during the year and that are not part of the applicant’s annual budget or regular programming.
Hand2Mouth Theatre will receive $5,050 to help fund a special opportunity to collaborate on a major bi-lingual theatre project entitled Two Cities. RA C C funding will support the initial rehearsal residency for H2M company members in San Miguel Allende, Mexico in May 2007. Upon return to Portland, H2M will host a public video showing and a small performance in June 2007. The complete performance will premiere in Portland at Teatro Milagro in July 2008.
Pacific Northwest College of Art will receive $30,000 to co-present the world’s first Animation Installation Competition during the Platform International Animation Festival in Portland from June 25-30, 2007. PN CA developed this opportunity after Portland was selected as the site of the animation festival in the fall of 2006. The competition will showcase world class mixed-media artists, and installations will be presented throughout PN CA’s galleries, open spaces, and outdoor walls of and near the campus. PN CA will also host a symposium, lectures and street party, and all events will be free and open to the public.
Portland Actors Conservatory will receive $7,500 to help ensure national accreditation of its Conservatory Program. RA C C funds will pay for a required audit of the organization’s last three fiscal years, and will help the Conservatory hire a Project Manager for six months to oversee implementation and fundraising for the new accredited program.
Portland Taiko will receive $27,000 to recover from the sudden loss of a highly skilled artistic staff member. Unanticipated expenses resulting from this emergency include contract fees for replacing the artist, travel expenses, and recruitment funds that will help Portland Taiko maintain its commitments for an April concert in Portland and other school and touring shows this spring.
Solo Flamenco will receive $20,050 for a special opportunity to bring eight renowned artists from the birthplace of the Flamenco – Jerez de la Frontera, Spain – to Portland for the NW International Flamenco Festival. These Sonidos Gitanos artists will provide local residents with the unique opportunity to view world-class performances and participate in five days of intimate workshops during the festival.
Total Awarded: $89,600
RACC Opportunity Grants (cycle 2) (June 4, 2007)
Artist Repertory Theatre will receive $30,000 to present The Ghosts of Celilo, a world premiere musical written by Marv Ross of the Oregon Trail Band, at the Newmark Theater in fall 2007. The timing of the production corresponds with A.R.T.'s 25th Anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the flooding of Celilo Falls. The play blends traditional Native American music with new songs to tell the story of the people of Celilo Village and how their lives changed when the Falls disappeared.
Northwest Professional Dance Project was awarded $11,395 to offset unforeseen increases in theatre/marketing costs for their Innovative Visions dance performance on July 14, 2007. The show was scheduled and budgeted to take place, but due to a booking conflict, NWPDP had to move the performance to the Newmark Theatre. The shift in venues constituted an emergency, with the Opportunity Grant going towards the resulting increase in expenses.
Total Awarded: $41,395
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RACC Opportunity Grants (cycle 3) (June 27, 2007)
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) was awarded $25,440 to partner with Performing Americas - a new initiative from National Performance Network that fosters exchange of Latin American and US artists. Our participation would enable us to present Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies/Mexico at the 2007 Festival, and Alaska by Diana Szienblum/Argentina in Winter 08. Funding from RACC allows the inclusion of free performances, workshops and lectures for audiences from the Latino and student communities. Local artists would benefit from the ability to connect with Latin American presenters, and PICA would diversify its programming.
Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) was awarded $8,785 to begin a search for a new music director during the next fiscal year with the understanding that Mei-Ann Chen, current Music Director and Conductor would lead the organizaiton through the search year. Her sudden recriutment away from Portland by the Atlanta Symphony leaves PYP without a conductor while conducting an International search. PYP seeks support to off-set the expense of transportation, lodging for a series of Guest Conductors, and anticipated loss in revenue due to loss of continuity on the podium.
The Library Foundation was awarded $20,000 to present a touring play during Multnomah County Library's 2008 Every Family Reads. In spring 2008 the program will be bilingual and feature a visit by author Pat Mora. A professional production of one of Pat’s books—Tomás & the Library Lady—is available March 5-8, 2008 for 10 performances in Portland. The play is about the impact of stories, books and the library in one boy’s life. Sets are adaptable so it can travel from schools to libraries to theater spaces.
Total Awarded: $44,225
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RACC Staff to Contact
Cindy Knapp
Director of Operations
Helen Daltoso
Grants Program Officer
503.823.5402
hdaltoso@racc.org
Ingrid Carlson
Grants Specialist
503.823.5417
icarlson@racc.org
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