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The Regional Arts & Culture Council presents the exhibition, Celebrating 25 Years of Percent for Art: 1980-2005 from August 16-September 12 at Pioneer Place, Concourse Level, Rotunda Buidling (at right). The Exhibition had been showing at the Portland Building through July. The exhibition features photos of over four hundred artworks commissioned or purchased through the City and County Percent for Art Programs over the past 25 years. Photos are arranged chronologically based on the year they were acquired by either the City or County. Many of the works are from the Portable Works Collection that rotates among publicly accessible city/county offices. In 1980 both the City of Portland and Multnomah County passed ordinances requiring that one percent of publicly funded capital construction budgets be set aside for public art. Later, that percent was raised to 1.33% to cover maintenance and administration. RACC is responsible for commissioning, selecting, and maintaining these public artworks. The entire public art collection, dating from 1888, includes over 1600 sculptures, photographs, prints, paintings and drawings. Artworks have been acquired through direct purchase and commissions, donations, and the Comprehensive Educational Training Act (CETA) of the 1970s, The region’s first percent for art project debuted in 1983 with the opening of the Multnomah County Justice Center on SW 3rd Avenue. Works by ten artists grace the building’s exterior and interior, including pieces by Bonnie Bronson, Louis Bunce, Ed Carpenter, Walter Dusenberry, Judith Fawkes, Bruce Forster, Anne Johnson, Liz Mapelli, Alden Mason, and Tim O’Neill. The most recently completed percent for art project, a partnership with Metro Regional Government, Multnomah County and the Port of Portland, incorporates multiple artworks and habitat enhancements by the team of Fernanda D’Agostino and Valerie Otani at the Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area. Earlier this month, RACC and the Portland Oregon Visitors Association released
a new full color Public Art Walking Tour guide to nearly 100 public artworks
in downtown Portland and the near eastside. This free brochure is available
at Portland-area visitor centers, or by calling RACC at 503.823.5111. You can
also obtain an electronic copy by visiting RACC’s website at A new online Public Art Inventory Database Search system is now available for users to identify and find the locations of artists’ work in the City of Portland and Multnomah County collection. The database offers the opportunity to obtain a list of and/or view both temporary and permanent site specific artworks as well as find the locations of nearly one thousand portable works sited in various publicly accessible offices. Viewers may also find two hundred and twenty-five works on paper that are part of the Visual Chronicle of Portland Collection managed by RACC. To learn more, visit www.racc.org/PubArtSearch (note the database is undergoing a technical upgrade and will be back online in October, 2005.) The Public Art Gallery with updated exhibitions on the region’s public
art reopened in 2004. Located on the 2nd floor of the Portland Building,1120 SW 5th Avenue, the
gallery is open Monday through Friday, 7am-6pm. Through vision, leadership and service the Regional Arts
& Culture Council works to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of
community life.
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