Arts

Arts Council of Pendleton (Pendleton Center for the Arts)

Provides general support of our free teen arts education program, Art Rocks Teens. The funding will allow us to provide 600 young people with professionally guided learning in arts history, techniques and applications.

Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education

This grant will be used to increase volunteer training. Inspiring volunteers through education and development of their understanding of our mission to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and spark positive actions.

BRAVO Youth Orchestras

Provides rigorous, daily instruction for 20-24 additional students in 2nd-4th grade, including choral singing, music literacy, stringed instrument technique and full orchestra.  Provides performance opportunities in high-profile venues, hosts international caliber guest artists, celebrates cultural richness reflective of the students while maintaining a low teacher-student ratio and high student retention.  The program works to  develop executive function in our students (inhibitory control, emotional regulation, sustained focus) for improved academic outcomes and ability to achieve long-term goals.

Caldera

Caldera will utilize a grant from Lamb Foundation to support our Youth Program, which serves ~350 underserved learners (6th – 12th grade) in Portland and Central Oregon annually. The program mentors learners from middle school into early adulthood (~7 years) through a layered support system of artists, mentors, and environmentalists.

Color Outside the Lines

Our objective is to offer weekly classes to foster youth, covering a wide array of art forms and enriching outings that serve the dual purpose of providing foster youth with outlets for self-expression and healing, and also providing needed support.

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts

Supports Crow’s Shadow Institute of Art in their transitional period as they bring back youth (and other) programming under new leadership.

Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc, dba Art Center East

Art Center East will provide high-quality arts experiences to schools and other venues where rural children have access to art without cost to families: 3,000 K-8 students in 10 counties, 200 children attending Farmers’ Market, 100 youth receiving class scholarships, 900 arts contact hours to teens affiliated with the Juvenile Department.

Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre

Provides access to live theatre for all ages in rural communities in eastern Oregon and SE Washington.

Ethos, Inc.

Since its inception, Ethos has worked diligently to make music education accessible to all K-12 kids by offering affordable music lessons, workshops, assemblies, and artist-in-residence programs. Ethos has become one of Oregon’s leading sources of music education and has won numerous regional and national awards, including being selected as one of the top 50 after-school programs in the country by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.  This grant supports this good work.

Family Development Center

Gives 66 preschool age children with high Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) scores, and who experience a history of neglect or trauma, the opportunity to experience an art project in clay – an experience otherwise not available to them.

Four Rivers Cultural Center

Provides the only free and low cost live theatre in this area. Our productions fill kids with hope and realization that life has more possibilities than imagined.  This grant was used to support the Holiday production of Elf, Jr, the musical:

Harney County Arts in Education

May be used to make a library of suitable plays available to the Harney County high schools; Burns and Crane; Silvies Valley Charter School and the upper division students in our rural schools to encourage theatre performance, or as need is greatest.

Josephy Center for Arts & Culture

Allows children participating in a free after-school program to have art education added. In addition, this grant provides a printing press and art materials to enrich art and culture programs that serve the county’s population, ages 4-70.

Music Is Instrumental

This grant will help maintain access to music for ALL 1,507 K-12 students in Lincoln City Schools. Expert technicians help meet this objective by supporting the instruction of three full time music teachers.

My Voice Music

My Voice Music’s Summer Camps introduce youth living in foster care to writing, recording and performing their own songs, and provide leadership experience for My Voice Music’s top year-round students.  Youth participate in one of four five-day integrated camps that reinforce long term goals for youth to be recognized for their abilities and artistry, not for their challenging backgrounds.  The grant provides free tuition for 25 aspiring musicians living in foster care, a concrete demonstration of new skills/pro-social abilities through performance, positive adult/youth and peer-to-peer experiences and leadership training and work experience for 8-10 youth leaders.

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