Who we fund
The following arts and culture groups received Work for Art grant funding in fiscal year 2017-18. Organizations are awarded grants for core mission support, arts education programs, and/or one-time projects or events.
Artback
Artists Repertory Theatre
Bag & Baggage Productions
Beaverton Civic Theatre
Big Horn Brass
Blue Sky
BodyVox
Broadway Rose Theatre
Cappella Romana
Chamber Music Northwest
Children’s Healing Art Project
Classical Up Close
CoHo Productions**
Disjecta
Echo Theater Company
Ethos Music Center
Friends of Chamber Music
Hand2Mouth
Hollywood Theatre
Imago Theatre
Independent Publishing Resource Center
Lakewood Center for the Arts
Literary Arts
Live Wire! Radio
Mask and Mirror Community Theatre
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Milagro Theatre
My Voice Music
Northwest Children’s Theater and School
Northwest Dance Project
NW Documentary Arts & Media
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras**
Oregon Children’s Theatre
Oregon Symphony
PDX Jazz
Pendulum Aerial Arts
PHAME
PlayWrite
Polaris Dance Theatre**
Portland Art Museum/Northwest Film Center
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland Opera
Portland Piano International
Portland Playhouse
Portland Puppet Lab/PDX Puppet Collective
Portland Youth Philharmonic
Profile Theatre
The August Wilson Red Door Project**
The Circus Project
The Portland Ballet
The Right Brain Initiative
Third Angle New Music
Third Rail Repertory Theatre
Triangle Productions
Washington County Cooperative Library
Services: Art of the Story Festival
White Bird
Write Around Portland
Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington
**New General Operating Support grant fund recipients, beginning Fiscal Year 2018-19
Thousands of performances and events—created by our funded groups—enrich our community.