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Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Center for the Arts
Project: The Arts in Education & Community Arts Initiative
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Toledo, ORAbout:
Our programs include 4 touring programs for schools, 3 theatrical and one fine art workshop. (Building Public works of Art). Due to the pandemic, we hope to begin touring again by spring 2022. Goal for 2022 is 10 works of public art.
Oregon Coast Children's Theatre & Youth Arts Center
Project: First Oregon Coast Invitational Youth Art Festival
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $6,000 Location: Toledo, ORAbout:
Provides free training workshops in paper sculpture to rural students in the 5th through 12th grade in anticipation of an expected 500 entries to a first Oregon Coast invitational youth art show occurring concurrently with the Toledo “Art Walk” in late August, 2016.
Oregon Coast Children's Theatre
Project: The Arts in Education & Community Arts Initiative
Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $25,000 Location: Toledo, ORAbout:
Our touring season usually runs from September – September for Oregon schools. Funds will be used to support program costs, both for our arts center operations, and for touring programs around the state of Oregon.
Oregon East Symphony
Project: Playing For Keeps youth programming
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
Gives students, from 4th grade through high school, access to the opportunity to play music through various education programs, instrument lending and performances.
Oregon East Symphony, Inc.
Project: Beethoven's 9th Symphony Fall 2024
Year: 2024 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
OES will present a free November 9, 2024 performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Hermiston, OR featuring the Hermiston High School Choir dept. This event will serve up to 800 audience members and 45 high school students.
Oregon East Symphony, Inc.
Project: Concerts and Education in the 2015-2016 30th Anniversary Season
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,0000 Location: Pendleton, ORAbout:
OES operates a symphony orchestra, chorale and youth music program in Eastern Oregon to enhance the quality of life by providing a dependable source of live music with special emphasis on youth education opportunities.
Oregon Symphony
Project: Continued support for Music Education and Community Engagement
Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Providing continuing support for the Oregon Symphony’s Music Education and Community Engagement programs for under-served children in Portland metro-area public schools in the 2014-2015 school and program year. Programs include: early learning events for preschool-Kindergarten aged children in public libraries; interactive classroom ensemble performances for K-2 students in Title I elementary schools; interactive concert hall concerts for grades 3-8; Sunday matinee family concerts for K-5; performance opportunities for student and community ensembles of all ages; and teaching resources for inter-disciplinary learning.
p:ear
Project: Arts & Culture Program + General Operations
Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $$15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
p:ear’s Arts and Culture Program strives to bring art, music, theater and literature into the lives of over 300 homeless youth yearly. Academic studies note the important role art can play in coping with the stresses accompanying homelessness.
p:ear
Project: Arts and Culture Program
Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
Through creative programming in the arts, p:ear provides ongoing support to homeless youth to develop a meaningful sense of self, gain new skills, and to develop the physical, intellectual, social and emotional maturity they need to become healthy adults. Art is one of the primary ways in which p:ear actively engages homeless youth with healthy mentoring and transition opportunities as well as providing opportunities for them to show and sell their work in the on-site gallery. Through the p:ear Gallery, our young people’s artistic skills and accomplishments are publicly celebrated on a monthly basis. By building connections with these youth through the creation and exhibition of their artwork, we form meaningful and trusting relationships with them that are the foundation for further constructive change.
p:ear
Project: p:ear Arts and Culture Program
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
p:ear’s Arts and Culture program brings music, art, theater, and movement into the lives of young people experiencing homelessness, creating opportunities for them to develop emotional, motor and cognitive skills.
Pacific Youth Choir
Project: PYC@NeighborhoodChoir Program
Year: 2017 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
PYC’s neighborhood choir program is designed to help bridge the equity gap for students and families in low-income neighborhoods, while continuing to build the diversity of PYC itself.
Playwrite, Inc.
Project: Graduate Opportunities Program
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, ORAbout:
PlayWrite’s mission is to use the power of performance in art to transform the lives of youth at the edge. This grant is intended to continue involvement of program graduates and support their graduation from high school.
Sanctuary Art Center
Project: Storytelling Internship Program
Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $12,000 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
The Storytelling Internship program will provide job training for 20 youth currently experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Participants will engage with a variety of local artists and employers to gain valuable job readiness skills.
Sanctuary Art Center
Project: Visual Storytelling Internship Program
Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $12,100 Location: Seattle, WAAbout:
The Visual Storytelling Internship program gives a select group of homeless youth the opportunity to create a number of in-depth projects over a significant period of time. These youth will be given the opportunity to travel to Ashland, OR to view world class storytelling at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The trip is meant to inspire and inform the youth about the work being done outside their community and to encourage them to continue in the program.
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
Project: Sitka Youth Program
Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Otis, ORAbout:
Provides hands-on arts education to over 1200 Pre-K-8th grade students in local schools and a 4-week summer art education series for over 100 underserved youth in Tillamook and Lincoln Counties.
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