Your gift supports many vital arts & culture organizations!
Your gift to Work for Art will be distributed through a competitive grants program administered by the Regional Arts & Culture Council. 100+ regional arts and culture organizations that have demonstrated exceptional artistic quality, proven community service, and fiscal responsibility are awarded these grants each year.
You can also direct your gift to support arts education. Your donation enables our funded arts and culture organizations to provide nearly 500,000 arts education experiences for students of all ages in urban and rural areas throughout the region and state. Arts education curriculum is designed to tie in with academic subjects such as science, math, health, and history. Many of these organizations are providing critical education services while school funding continues to be cut.
You may also designate your gift to a specific arts and culture organization of your choice, based in Clackamas, Multnomah, or Washington County.
Services Provided by Work for Art’s Funded Groups
You can support 100+ extraordinary regional arts and culture organizations with a single gift to Work for Art. Your dollars directly benefit arts organizations that enrich our families, neighborhoods, schools, and communities with thousands of events, arts education experiences, and outreach services across the region and state.
With your help, our funded arts organizations can reach out to those who would not otherwise have access to the power and inspiration of the arts due to income, disabilities, isolation, or other barriers. These groups provide transportation, scholarships, free or discounted performances, workshops, and diverse arts experiences in partnership with more than 100 health and social service agencies, including:
ALS Association
Boys and Girls Aid
Cascade AIDS Project
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Partners for Affordable Housing
Disability Resources
Dress for Success
Elder Resource Alliance
Head Start
Mary’s Woods
New Avenues for Youth
Oregon School for the Blind
Oregon Food Bank
PFLAG
Providence Cancer Center
Shriner’s Hospital for Children
Starlight Children’s Foundation
Upward Bound
Youth Employment Institute
Currently Funded Organizations:
Agnieszka Laska Dancers
Artists Repertory Theatre
Arts for All
A-WOL Dance Collective
Bag & Baggage Productions
Beaverton Arts Commission
Blue Sky Gallery
BodyVox Dance
Broadway Rose Theatre Company
Cappella Romana
Cascadia Composers
Chamber Music Northwest
Children’s Healing Art Project
Cinema Project
Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon
Conduit Dance
Create Plenty
Curious Comedy Theater
Defunkt Theatre
Dill Pickle Club
Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center
Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theatre
Estacada Area Arts Commission
Estacada Together
Ethos Music Center
Fear No Music
45th Parallel
Friends of Chamber Music
Gallery Homeland
Hand2Mouth Theatre
Harambee Centre
Hollywood Theatre
Imago Theatre
Independent Publishing Research Center
India Cultural Association
Kukatonon
Lakewood Center for the Arts
Lewis & Clark College Hoffman Gallery
Literary Arts
Live on Stage
Live Wire! Radio
MetroArts
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Miracle Theatre Group
Mountain Writers Series
Museum of Contemporary Craft
My Story
Native American Youth Association
New City Initiative
Northwest Children’s Theater and School
Northwest Dance Project
NW Documentary Arts & Media
Opera Theater Oregon
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Oregon Children’s Theatre
Oregon Cultural Access
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center
Oregon Repertory Singers
Oregon Symphony
Orlo
Pacific Northwest College of Art
PDX Pop Now!
Performance Works Northwest
PHAME Academy
PlayWrite
Portland Art Museum/Northwest Film Center
Portland Ballet
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Portland Center Stage
Portland Chamber Orchestra
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland Jazz Festival
Portland Opera
Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival
Portland Piano International
Portland Playhouse
Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival
Portland Story Theater
Portland Taiko
Portland Theatre Works
Portland Youth Philharmonic
Profile Theatre Project
RASIKA, India Arts and Culture Council
Resonance Ensemble
RiverCity Music Festival
Sowelu Theater
Tears of Joy Theatre
The Art Gym
The Brooklyn Bay
The Circus Project
The Media Project
The Obo Addy Legacy Project
The Right Brain Initiative
Third Angle New Music Ensemble
Third Rail Repertory Theatre
Transformation in Arts
Triangle Productions!
Vibe of Portland
Washington County Arts Guide
Water in the Desert
White Bird Dance
Wordstock
Write Around Portland
Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington