Professional Arts Services Resource Guide
RACC offers the following guide to consultants with expertise in arts and culture
activities in the Portland metropolitan region: Accounting
and Financial Resources; Fundraising; Non-Profit
Organizational Services; Legal Services; Insurance Services and Promotion
and Marketing. RACC does not endorse these organizations, businesses or
services, but can offer their contact information for our constituents.
Accounting and Financial Resources
A&E Tax Service, Michael Davidson, 503-228-0962 (phone),
email: michael@aetaxservice.com
Technical Assistance for Community Services (TACS) (see
below)
Fundraising
Arts Action Research (see below)
Sara T. Behrman, Freelance Writing & Consulting: 6167 SW Miles Ct, Portland, OR 97219, 503.245-2528 (phone), 503.246.3043 (fax), email: sbehrman@easystreet.net.
Consulting Services:
Sara T. Behrman has successfully written thousands of private and corporate foundation grants, and has also submitted hundreds of federal, state, and regional government grants on behalf of small, medium, and large organizations since 1987. Since relocating to Portland in 2000, Sara has provided customer-focused grant writing assistance to area nonprofits that include performing, visual, and literary arts organizations, as well as heritage and cultural institutions. Services include: grants project design, development, and evaluation; grants prospect research; grant proposal and administrative report writing; development staff coaching; editing; grantsmanship training; and grants project management.
Adrienne Boxer, GRANTSMART LLC (Grant Writing and Consulting): 833 SE Main Street, Box #226, Portland, OR 97214, 503.438.4187, Adrienne@grantsmartwriting.com, www.grantsmartwriting.com.
Consulting Services:
GRANTSMART is a professional grants consulting service that provides both grant seeking (finding funding opportunities) and grant writing. We find matches with funding sources whose interests and goals are similar to clients' goals. GRANTSMART writes clear, smart and creative proposals that show off the clients' expertise, abilities and actions. GRANTSMART Founder, Adrienne Boxer, has over 6 years of experience in winning grants from public and private funding sources. With an impressive track record securing millions of dollars in grant awards, Adrienne has won numerous grants, including recent arts grants from RACC and the Portland Schools Foundation. Adrienne believes in the importance of clarity and story-telling in grant writing.
Grant Central Station, Carrie Rothburd: 5000 SE 60th Avenue, Portland, OR 97206, 503.771.0809, http://www.grant-central-station.com.
Consulting Services:
Provides grant writing assistance to nonprofit, civic, state and tribal professionals, who care deeply about their community. Carrie Rothburd has more than 20 years' experience helping newer nonprofits embark on their first grant-writing journey and established organizations and tribes apply for multi-million dollar federal grants. Grant Central Station believes in the nonprofit sector's importance in creating and serving community and in making the world a better place.
Grants Northwest, Rick Levine and Michael Wells:
600 NW 10th, #546, Portland, OR 97205, 503.294.2147 (phone), 503.294.0292 (fax),
Email: mkwells@uswest.net or leviner@uswest.net,
http://www.grantsnorthwest.com/about.html.
Consulting Services:
Grant writing—Foundation, corporate, local, state and federal grant requests
Grants Consultation—Assessing organizations’ current and potential
grants effort, review of grant requests, developing grants plans and, designing
the most effective approaches to funders of interest
Grants Training—Identifying key prospects, cultivation techniques, project
development, strategy and effective grant writing.
Grant Prospect Research—Customized searches of local and national private
funding sources, as well as federal and local government prospect research
Grant Organizing—Engaging and energizing volunteers in support of grants
activities
Grants Information—Informational website and publications
Jean Johnson, PhD, Cultural & Applied History, 3524 NE 76th Avenue, Portland, OR 97213, 503.287.9732, jeanjohnson@spiritone.com.
Consulting Services: Johnson brings post-graduate training in grantsmanship as well as a record of successful proposals. She helps arts and cultural grant seekers articulate project support goals, has extensive multicultural experience, and understands development and marketing phases critical to successful projects. Because she is currently working to develop her grant-writing portfolio, Johnson’s rate is entirely negotiable. She enjoys working with people who are building nonprofit organizations as well as the puzzle of putting a grant together and creates color with anecdotes to overlay sound foundations. You can count on Johnson to be a congenial team player and bring a sound work ethnic to your projects.
Ben Moorad, 503-756-4011, benmoorad@gmail.com.
Consulting Services: Personalized and in-depth grant writing services and development consulting. As the co-founder of a successful arts nonprofit (Write Around Portland), Moorad knows what it takes to secure funding in this market and in this economic climate. When he looks at organizations that are doing fantastic and vital work in the community but have trouble meeting their funding goals, most often he finds a need for someone to articulate their successes in a way that funders can connect with. Good grant writing captures the heart of the organization’s mission and tells the story of how that plays out in people’s lives. At the same time, a powerful application portrays the organization’s stability and professionalism as signs of the seriousness they bring to their mission. He believes telling those compelling stories in a professional manner is my greatest strength as a grant writer, and for the past four years, he's been excited to help great nonprofits secure the institutional funding they need. His clients have ranged from small performing arts groups to regional and international nonprofits, including: Summer Literary Seminars Inc., Oregon Institute of Technology, Lutheran Community Services Northwest, Mt Hood Repertory Theatre, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Agnieszka Laska Dancers, Celebration Academy of Performing Arts and others.
RedBird Assistants, Jennifer Gierada, 503.984.1780, jennifer@redbirdassistants.com, www.redbirdassistants.com
Writing Services: RedBird provides professional writing assistance to artists at an affordable rate. Jennifer Gierada has assisted artists with successful grant applications, show programs, bios and marketing materials since 2002. A Portland performer since 1997, Jenn has worked on all sides of art-making and understands that while art should be able to speak for itself, refined writing is essential for drawing an audience or earning a grant. Writing is a personal expression. Having a professional review your work will ensure your writing is understood and impactful. Jenn will work with you on any level: punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, rewrites, even articulation of your vision. Services include original text, proofreading and editing.
remmick+mckeen, Ross McKeen, 10626 SW 25th Avenue, Portland
OR 97219, 503.233.5985 (phone), 503.234.0303 (fax); email: rdmckeen@aol.com.
Consulting Services: Since 1996, remmick+mckeen has provided fundraising, planning
and grantwriting services to arts and cultural organizations, with a particular
focus on small and mid-sized performing arts groups. remmick+mckeen knows the
regional funding community well, having written scores of successful proposals
in support of everything from tiny projects to huge capacity-building initiatives
and capital campaigns. remmick+mckeen has also helped many clients secure grants
from RACC, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Oregon Cultural Trust and the National
Endowment for the Arts. remmick+mckeen also facilitates board retreats, provides
training, develops strategic and development plans, advises on individual giving
campaigns, and organizes events. Ross McKeen has over 20-years of nonprofit
and public sector management experience, and is adept at creating case statements,
packaging proposals and advising on financial planning and budget presentation.
He is an excellent writer and editor. In 2002, Ross served a one-year appointment
as the first Executive Director of the Oregon Cultural Trust. (His partner
and co-founder, Robin Remmick recently left the consulting practice to join
the Oregon Children's Theatre as its Development Director).
Rates are $65 per hour. Clients, past and present: White Bird, Oregon Arts
Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Children's Theatre, Portland Opera,
Profile Theatre Project, Miracle Theatre, Portland Taiko, Oslund+Company/Dance,
Do Jump!, MetroArts Inc, Portland Symphonic Choir, World Forestry Center, Cascadia
Green Building Council and others.
Willamette Valley Development Officers, 619 SW 11th, #121,
Portland, OR 97206, 503.274.1977 (phone), http://www.wvdo-or.org.
Consulting Services: Represents development professionals from more than
600 nonprofit organizations as well as community leaders from the philanthropic
and corporate sectors. Presents the annual Crystal Awards, job hotline, sponsorship
programs and other community events.
WM Arts Management LLC
503.235.4681 or wm.artsmanagement@gmail.com or .
Consulting Services: Works with artists and arts organizations to launch projects, strengthen initiatives and advance professional practice. Services are tailored to each clients' individual needs and may include: Strategic Planning, career counsel, grant & proposal writing, PR & media campaigns, research or documentation.
Non-Profit Organizational Services
Arts Action Research, Co-Director
George Thorn, 1715 NW 25 Ave, Portland, OR 97210, 503-222-4214 (phone), 503-222-3587
(fax), E-Mail - GThorn4292@aol.com,
http://www.ArtsAction.com.
Consulting Services: Assistance in the clarification and communication
of vision, mission, and values; Planning; Boards and volunteers; Organizational
relationships and structure; Organizations in transition, Fundraising; Audience
Development.
The Canoe Group, 4300 SW Parkview Avenue, Portland, OR 97225, 503.297.6902, www.thecanoegroup.com.
Consulting Services: The Canoe Group, formed in 2008, is the shared practice of Marta Mellinger, Michael Kosmala, and David Frackelton. Their mission is to partner with their clients to explore new ways of doing business in a rapidly changing world. They guide the development of strategy: strategic plans, strategic communications, new initiatives.
Claret Associates, exhibition and collections management, 5407 SE Pardee Street | Portland, OR 97206, 503 490 8971, www.claretassociates.net.
Claret Associates is a museum consulting firm which facilitates collections research and documentation as well as exhibit development and management. Claret Associates provides technical and practical expertise in collections management, research, and curation; exhibit design, development, and project management. Clients include museums, state agencies, Certified Local Governments, and non-profits.
Creative Planning, and Associates, 1703 SE 16th Avenue, Portland,
Oregon 97214; 503.233.4075; E-Mail: bbulick@aol.com.
Consulting Services: Creative Planning is a nationally recognized consultant
firm with a specialty in strategic planning. The firm was founded in 1990 to
help non-profit, government and corporate clients understand and manage change
to their advantage and employs a diversity of skills and perspectives: organizational
and community planning, resource development and grantwriting, qualitative market
research, product development and branding, organizational change management
and group process design and facilitation. Bill Bulick joined
Creative Planning full time in 1998 after nearly 20 years in high level public
sector and non-profit management. Bill has designed and led dozens of organizational
and community wide strategic planning projects for a variety of non-profits,
governments and foundations in Portland and around the country. Bill also consults
extensively with youth arts programs, networks and funders to design programs,
evaluation and documentation, craft policy and advocacy frameworks and design
"best practices" training and "shared learning" tailored
to their needs. Bill has been Director of the Regional Arts and Culture Council
(1989-98) a member of the Americans for the Arts Policy Board, Governing Board
and Executive Committee, a member and chair of several National Endowment for
the Arts program and policy panels and a member and President of the U.S. Urban
Arts Federation.
Draw A Bead Consulting, David Ball, principal. 52184 Rabinsky Rd., Scappoose, OR 97056, 503.543.8998 (Office), 719.332.5462 (Cell). E-mail: dab@drawabead.com
Consulting Services: Draw A Bead works with non-profit Boards on Governance and control issues, using the provocative tenets of John Carver’s Policy Governance® model and other best practices. We help Boards “have their arms around the organization without having its fingers in it.”
Bill Flood, Community Cultural Development: 503.710.5413, bill@billflood.org, http://www.billflood.org, 238 SE 62nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97215.
Consulting Services: community cultural planning, organizational strategic planning, facilitation, project management, teaching/training, writing, evaluation/assessment. Bill has been consulting with both public and private non-profit organizations for over 20 years. His focus is community cultural development – the intersection of community building and cultural development/management. He served for nine years as the Community Development Coordinator for the Oregon Arts Commission. He holds a Master of Science degree in Community Systems Planning and Development from the Pennsylvania State University and is a 2008 recipient of a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant which enabled him to teach for the Cultural Management Program at the Potsdam Fachhochschule – an applied sciences university in Potsdam, Germany. He is adjunct faculty with the University of Oregon Arts Administration Program and regularly teaches Community Cultural Development. He especially enjoys working with groups with strong goals of outreach and collaboration or organizations who are seeking to move in these directions.
Institute for Nonprofit Management at Portland State University,
Sharon Hasenjaeger, Program Coordinator: 503-725-8221 (phone), E-mail: INPM@pdx.edu,
http://www.inpm.pdx.eduConsulting Services: The Institute for Nonprofit Management works to
meet the needs of nonprofits. Through high quality educational and training
programs, INPM supports the development of a strong, informed and effective
nonprofit sector. INPM's educational and training programs will teach you what
you need to know to build your community through management and leadership in
nonprofit organizations.
Public Relations Institute, 4630 S.W. View Point Terrace,
Portland, Oregon 97239, 503-223-6052, fax 503-232-0789, paulette@prinstitute.org, www.prinstitute.org.
Consulting
Services: nonprofit organization that provides innovative and imaginative
business management strategies in Mission Marketing©, reputation management,
crisis management, community relations, public involvement, negotiation, fundraising
and business development. The Institute provides consulting services and professional
development seminars. An award winning consultant, Paulette Peynet is the founding
president. Paulette is an alumna of Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation.
She holds a Masters degree in intercultural relations and an undergraduate degree
in public relations.
RedBird Assistants (click here)
remmick+mckeen (click here)
Technical Assistance for Community Services (TACS),
1001 SE Water Ave, Ste 490, Portland, OR 97214, 503-239-4001 (phone), 503-236-8313
(fax), Helpline: 503-233-9240 or toll free 1-888-206-3076, http://www.tacs.org.
Consulting Services: TACS has been helping nonprofits achieve their missions
since 1977. Our professional staff assists nonprofit organizations with consultation
and customized trainings on financial management, board development, technology,
strategic planning, diversity, collaborations, management assessments, leadership
development, funding strategy, and executive transition services. Our consultants
Cliff Jones, Guadalupe Guajardo, Kay Sohl, Bob Hazen, and Shawn Michael together
provide consultation for over 130 nonprofits each year. For more information
on training, consulting, or other TACS services.
TechSoup, The Technology Place for Nonprofits. Learn about
appropriate, effective technology that fits within your budget. Written by experts
for a nonprofit audience. TechSoup articles and worksheets make technology easy
to understand. The TechSoup site is divided into 5 main content areas: How-to,
Community Discussions, Products, Service Directory, and News and Views. See
http://www.techsoup.org.
WM Arts Management LLC (click here)
Legal Services: Copyright, Patents and Contract Information
Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, PC. 300 Pioneer Tower, 888 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR 97204-2089 aaron.douglas@bullivant.com. Phone: 503.499.4487. www.bullivant.com.
Bullivant's Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law Group consists of 25 lawyers in four western states with extensive experience representing clients in virtually all aspects of the creative arts and entertainment industries; from cultural institutions, film studios, record labels, production companies, technology companies and professional sports organizations, to artists, actors, singers, television personalities, screenwriters, publishers, gaming developers, graphic designers, marketing agencies, musicians, athletes, and authors. Bullivant's West Coast team of litigation, intellectual property, and business attorneys extends beyond the capabilities of boutique entertainment firms. From the negotiation and documentation of complex transactions to the protection of intellectual property, Bullivant's representation is steeped in integrity, determination and the innovation necessary to respond to today's ever changing technological world. Their attorneys and staff bring with them a civic commitment to the arts and serve on boards of cultural institutions and organizations including. They proudly dedicate their time, both pro bono and personally, to many artistic and creative organizations. Regional organizations include: Film Action Oregon/Hollywood Theatre project, Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Oregon Ballet Theatre and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Kohel Haver, SWIDER MEDEIROS HAVER LLP. 621 SW Morrison Street Suite 1420, Portland Oregon 97205, ARTCOP@AOL.COM, phone 503.295.2787, www.smhllaw.com.
Consulting Services: Kohel and his law firm represents members of the Portland creative community providing services in business, contracts, copyright, licensing, literary, performance, entertainment, film, video, advertising, interactive, web, trademark, and non-profit law. Kohel works with all types of creative clients assisting with business formation, structure and management, contracts and licensing, review and negotiation, copyright and trademark registration and litigation of infringement matters. Kohel has worked with the Alliance of Community Media, Portland Community, MetroEast. He is board president of Northwest Lawyers and Arts. Kohel frequently present workshops for the Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Marylhurst College, The Portland Art Institute, Portland Community College, Pacific University, the Independent Publishers Resource Center, the Regional Arts & Culture Council and organizations like the AIGA, GAG, NWABP, OMPA and the SCBWI. He had presented at continuing legal education programs and many national conferences around the country and with the Washington, Minnesota and Oregon State Bar. Kohel has written academic papers on Copyright and free speech issues, a state of the music industry and its current challenges, a book on Copyright and Video Production and a Zine on Copyright / Fair Use / Free Speech and Zines.
Anne Koch, Motschenbacher & Blattner, LLP, 117 SW Taylor Street, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97204, email: akoch@portlaw.com, web: www.portlaw.com, 503.417.0500.
Consulting Services: Anne’s practice focuses on business, contracts, entertainment, copyright and trademark, and non-profit law. She represents a wide array of creative clients, such as musicians, bands, composers, independent labels, music venues and clubs, visual and graphic artists, photographers, and software and web developers. Anne assists her clients with business formation, management needs, contract drafting, review and negotiation, licensing, copyright and trademark registration and infringement matters. She additionally represents a variety of local businesses, and has extensive experience advising start-ups on entity formation, taxation, licensing, and other business formation issues. She has also assisted non-profit organizations in obtaining their 501(c)(3) status. Anne currently sits on the boards of Northwest Lawyers and Artists, Disjecta Interdisciplinary Arts Center, and MusicFest NW. She is a former music major who sings, plays classical piano, and is often seen in attendance at her clients’ performances. Anne budgets her work according to each client’s needs and provides initial consultations free of charge. She is licensed in both Oregon and Washington.
Peter Vaughan Shaver, Sound Advice, LLC. 3939 NE Hancock Street, Suite 308, Portland, OR 97212-5321, 503.473.8252 (phone), 503.288.5219 (fax), email: pvshaver@hotmail.com, web: www.pdxmusiclaw.com.
Consulting Services: Peter Vaughan Shaver is a Portland-based arts & entertainment attorney. His primary areas of legal expertise include intellectual property and general business law with an emphasis on copyrights, trademarks, music and art law, Internet law, licensing, and business creation. Peter works with creative people and businesses of all kinds and is a regular lecturer on these topics at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland State University, Marylhurst University, PCC-Sylvania, PCC-Cascade, The Art Institute of Portland, the Graphic Artists' Guild, the Women's Art Caucus, American Federation of Musicians Union and other educational and community groups. Peter is the former President of the Eugene Lawyers for the Arts (ELA), and is a Boardmember for Portland-based, non-profit organizations, Northwest Lawyers and Artists, The Creative Music Guild, and the environmental arts group, Orlo. Peter also wrote an advice column on music law for the Music Liberation Project Magazine (Portland, Oregon) and is on the Advisory Board of the MusicFest Northwest.
Insurance Services
Gales Creek Insurance Services, 800 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 335, Portland, OR 97209, 503.227.0491, Fax: 503.227.0927, info@galescreek.com, www.galescreek.com.
Consulting Services: A full-service independent insurance company. They specialize in providing innovative insurance solutions with outstanding service and superior coverage. They work with small businesses or corporations seeking property/casualty packages; individuals needing special event coverage for a community event; non-profits, membership associations, concert promoters, film producers, and others.
Huntington T. Block Insurance Agency, Inc. 199 Fremont Street, 15th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
Sarah C. Barr, Manager, 415.4867380
sarah_barr@asg.aon.com, www.HuntingtonTBlock.com.
Consulting Services: Huntington T. Block Agency, Inc. is the leading provider of insurance for the fine arts community. This leadership is based on three defining values: Unequalled expertise protecting those involved in the creation, exhibition, collection and conservation of works of art, responsive, on-going client service and support, and Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with respected, financially strong carriers whose commitment and knowledge of the fine arts community match our own.
Promotion and Marketing Services
Art Counselor, Duane Snider
503.233.9110, duane@theartcounselor.com, www.theartcounselor.com
Consulting Service: Seeks to guide art buyers in Portland on how to select art that allows them to explore their own individuality and connection to the world. Portland may be the very best place to buy art.
Carolyn Campbell, MA, CPPC (Certified Personal & Professional
Coach)
503.493.9497, carolyn@thecoresource.com, http://www.thecoresource.com
Coaching and consulting Services: Specializes in helping creative and
healing professionals launch or expand their business or creative venture.
Recognized
for her ability to get to the core issues of growing a successful business,
Carolyn guides creative professionals as they bridge the gap between creative
work and the marketplace, not by jumping through hoops, but by clarifying
a vision and creating a personalized approach to outreach and marketing.
With fifteen years as a theater producer, arts educator and business owner,
she works with her clients to define their business, market their services
and develop their unique brand identity by honoring their unique approach
and style of connection.
LGA Creative, 3205 SE 90th Place, Portland Oregon 97266, 503.913.0486, www.lgacreative.com, allison Kramer at allisonkramer@lgacreative.com.
Labrousse, Garrity, and Associates (LGA) offers unique, personal, and professional representation and consultation services for artists from a variety of diverse backgrounds. Whether you have a portfolio on the table or are in need of one, LGA provides the tools and resources necessary to turn the Artist into a Professional. LGA Toolkit which includes A logo, business card, letterhead & envelopes, photography for marketing purposes and featured on our LGA website. We offer stellar design and websites for artists as well as full representational and promotional services.
Northwest Framing
503.892.6322, rachelo@nwframing.com, www.nwframing.com.
Consulting Services: The largest picture framing retailer and picture framing solution company in the Pacific Northwest, and in the Commercial Division, they specialize in working with Architecture Firms, Interior Planners and Designers, Project Managers, and directly with businesses that require art and framing. They offer solutions in everything from finding original art to the installation itself.
Public Relations Institute (click here)
RedBird Assistants (click here)
Bob Sterry. Sales & Marketing for Artists
PO Box 1986, Wilsonville, OR 97070. 503.887.4588. millennium@canby.com.
Consulting Services:
Advises artists on sales and marketing and is attuned to the needs and budgets of artists. His work is to help artists to find more creative time by gaining control and certainty over their business. Many artists find the idea of an organized business or marketing plan either fraught with mystery or simply too much work. He leads artists through the not so painful process of understanding what a business or marketing plan really is, and helps them develop their own plans and the tools to execute them properly. Bob has a quarter century of sales and marketing experience to draw on, gained in New Jersey and the NY Metro Area, Hong Kong, Massachusetts, California and the Pacific NW. Originally trained as an analytical chemist in the UK, Bob moved into high technology sales and marketing in the late seventies when he moved to the U.S., working for Varian, Hewlett Packard, Thermo Electron Corp. and several smaller companies. Throughout all this time he provided the sales & marketing support to his successful singer-storyteller wife, Anne-Louise Sterry, before joining her as permanent partner in 2004.
Studio Art Direct
curator@studioartdirect, 503-230-9390
Promotional and marketing services: Get your work seen! Post images of your work on the region’s largest online gallery. Studio Art Direct sells and leases regional art to regional business clients. Clients search for art from Studio Art Direct’s extensive selection of art created by regional emerging and established artists. They market and promote your work to this select market. Need help optimizing your images for the web? Have questions about marketing your work? Contact their curator - here to help you be successful: curator@studioartdirect.com. Visit the web to learn more http://www.studioartdirect.com.
Tryst Artist Representation, LLC.
971-227-3743, abby@trystartist.com, www.trystartist.com.
Representation and consulting services for fine artists: Abby Michels, the principal of Tryst Artist Representation, LLC, has a unique background in the law, business and the arts. Formerly a civil litigation attorney, Ms. Michels has represented a variety of creative and professional people in matters involving business and the arts. Tryst Artist Representation, LLC takes an individualized approach to representation and offers the following among its services: portfolio consultation and development; grant, residency, fellowship or competition research and application; acquisition of display venues for solo or group shows; marketing and promotional work in connection with artists and their work; sales of artwork; and procurement of commissions from corporate or individual patrons.
WM Arts Management LLC (click here)
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