As Portland's sprawling 10-day festival of new performance prepares to hit the stage running, the creators of half a dozen fresh shows talk about what they're doing and why.

Other winners during Monday's Literary Arts event included Waka T. Brown for young adult literature and poet Daniela Naomi Molnar.

Our Creative Future, which is shaping the Portland metro area's public approach to arts policies, will have a Virtual Town Meeting April 9. And the City of Portland shifts its cultural lineup.

The gift, which continues the Schnitzer family's longtime support of Portland State University, will help fund a new home for the School of Art, support PSU's Schnitzer Art Museum, and provide outdoor art and other enhancements on campus.

News & Notes: Portland's biggest theater company is one of three nationally to win $1 million grants from the Mellon Foundation. Plus: Center Stage's new season; new faces at the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust.

The Oregon Community Foundation and James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation invest $20 million each to boost cultural groups, adding to $11.8 million pledged by the state Legislature.

A $300 million gift of more than 200 artworks jump-starts the Seattle University Museum of Art. Plus: Maryhill Museum season begins, Asian American writers, Andrew Proctor returns, jazz at Milagro, Billie Holiday tribute night.

The 2024 session improves on a dismal '23 session for the arts, with allocations for several large organizations, less for smaller ones, and an unwelcome surprise for the High Desert Museum.

Sure, there will still be books, but get ready for big changes in the libraries emerging from 2020’s $387 million bond.

The performance space by the railroad tracks in North Portland and the Butoh-inspired company Water in the Desert whisper their farewell to the Portland scene.

As Central Library reopens in downtown Portland, The Library Foundation takes on new leadership. Plus: A new leader for the Parks Foundation; talking Nevelson and Neel at PNCA.

The 65-year-old Grants Pass library has not kept pace with the city's growth; funds from the Cow Creek Band and a bill before the Legislature would help pay to replace it.

Portland's festival of new works is back after taking a year off; the Bellevue Arts Museum faces a "dire financial crisis"; the Eugene paper is back in print following an embezzlement.

The choral ensemble starts their semester-long residency at Linfield University in McMinnville. The recently shuttered jazz club has changed management and is making plans to reopen.

As greater Portland's arts and cultural system continues a slow structural evolution, a gathering at PSU hears information but not yet the shape of a completed plan.

Shut out in the 2023 legislative session after a Senate walkout stalled action, Oregon arts advocates and legislators are pushing in '24 for some major state funding.

The stop-motion animation master, who won an Oscar for "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," was revered in Portland's vibrant animation community.

The mobile venue is a South By Southwest finalist; the former Oregon Symphony conductor's CIM saga continues.

The Portland-based national cultural organization chooses Shyla Spicer to carry its multiple programs forward as its new president and CEO.

Storm damage shuts down the Beaverton arts center's galleries for repairs; The Judy reopens after its own storm damage; and All Classical's biggest-ever grant, from the Murdock Trust, helps its move to new downtown Portland headquarters.

Winners in seven categories will be announced April 8 during a ceremony in Portland. In addition, Ellen Waterston of Bend will be recognized for her contributions to the state's literary scene.

OBF has announced Jos van Veldhoven and Craig Hella Johnson as the festival’s new artistic partners.

The opera will sell the Hampton Center and look for a new home; the symphony and its musicians agree on a new three-year contract.

The Eugene paper, which had laid off its entire staff in a financial emergency, is making progress, and the Dell'Arte theater school is bouncing back. Triangle's Off-Broadway show extends; artist grants announced.

The paper, whose journalism includes vital arts and cultural coverage, is fighting a financial crisis allegedly caused by embezzlement, and is turning to the public for help.

Recent moves and kudos about 45th Parallel Universe, Third Angle New Music, Friends of Chamber Music, Cappella Romana, Tomas Cotik, and other figures in Oregon classical and jazz music.

The state's innovative tax credit system allows you to double the impact of your donations to nonprofit cultural groups – but you must act by Dec. 31.

Webb's colleagues remember him as a passionate and creative supporter of the arts.

The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts will provide science, technology, engineering, and math students the opportunity to receive a unique understanding of the world through the arts.

Akiho's "Sculptures" and Spalding's collaboration with Fred Hersch received multiple nominations, Tham has been selected for an international conductor competition, and Cotik has unveiled a prototype of his new interdisciplinary media project.

As the giving season moves into high gear, the state's innovative tax credit system allows you to double the impact of your donations to nonprofit cultural groups.

Next spring’s opening will make Corvallis a destination for world-class arts performances, exhibits, and education.

A series of public meetings about arts funding after the breakup with RACC provides a lens into the still-forming City Arts Program plans – including slashed overhead costs.

Financial difficulties for the 1905, which has just gone out of business, raise larger questions about the history and future of jazz in Portland.

Rebekah Sobel will join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in January, moving from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

A national study reports that the arts rang up an $829 million impact in Oregon in 2022, boosting the economy and creating many jobs. Plus: Oregon is looking for its next poet laureate.

The county follows the City of Portland's lead in defunding the regional arts granting group – and RACC, in turn, makes plans to continue its services.

Banyas was known nationally for her visionary work in metal arts and enameling: In 2022 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Enamelist Society.

The embattled regional arts funding agency cuts its ties with leader Carol Tatch amid a continuing dispute with the City of Portland, The Oregonian reports.

The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.

Friends have started a GoFundMe account to help the Newport business owner hurt while taking banners down for the November fundraising auction.

The company, beset by financial problems in the midst of a major construction project and a suspended season, parts ways with Jeanette Harrison, its artistic director of only a year.

the 1905, Damien Geter, Carlos Kalmar.

The noted school for physical theater announces an emergency fund drive to keep its doors open. Plus: new Oregon Arts Commission grants, Dan Ryan's quartet of city Art Talks.

Hull, who taught at Willamette University for 40 years, also curated many exhibitions and wrote brilliantly about many leading Northwest artists.

The newly renovated theater on SE Division Street opens its doors to the public November 3 with a live appearance by David Byrne.

The arts and culture funding group, in the midst of a fierce battle over funding with the City of Portland, puts Executive Director Carol Tatch on paid leave pending investigation of unspecified issues.

The Portland artist and co-founder of the Antler & Talon galleries was a rising star in the arts community. She will be remembered for her unflagging support for artists, her local community, and the environment.

“He led with his heart, and what a huge, open heart it was!”: The leader of Portland Chamber Orchestra and the Siletz Bay Music Festival leaves a giant gap among musicians and friends.

The “Ambassador's Portal” by Ken McCall replaces a beloved sculpture as the city expands its public art offerings with plans for five more new pieces and an arts garden.

The awards to Oregon arts and cultural groups and county and tribal cultural coalitions are a bright spot in a difficult financial year.

As summer’s end draws near and a new arts season approaches, some Oregon music institutions are welcoming new leadership, while others have suffered losses.

News & Notes: A new series of lectures on prominent women artists of the 20th century; The Immigrant Story goes live at The Armory; The –Ism Youth Files kicks off a podcast series.

The longtime curator and director, who spent almost half a century at the Portland Art Museum, was an internationally recognized expert on Asian art.

The 27th annual Art in the Pearl festival highlights Portland's Labor Day Weekend. Plus, art around Oregon in Astoria, Eugene, and The Dalles.

The poet, painter, and writer, whose novel "Mala Noche" was turned into a film by Gus Van Sant, was a fixture of Portland's poetry-reciting club scene in the 1970s and '80s.

Amid the move to a new headquarters and other staff changes, the nonprofit – home of the Portland Book Festival and Oregon Book Awards – will be led by an interim director this fall.

The Cascadia Composers founder leaves a legacy in music and more.

Financial problems stemming in part from the pandemic, an expensive construction project, lack of expected state funding and a national slump in theater attendance force a drastic step.

Ownership of the longtime Black arts center is transferred, and PassinArt Theatre will become a major decision-maker.

Plus: Washougal Art and Music Festival, PassinArt's festival of multicultural play readings and films.

Time for Three, Anne Akiko Meyers, and Orli Shaham headline the newly-minted festival in downtown Vancouver.

Portland Art Museum and curator Kathleen Ash-Milby play key roles in spotlighting the first solo Indigenous artist at the U.S. Pavilion in the international art showcase's 129-year history.

The former Artists Rep artistic leader is the new artistic director of Seattle's much larger flagship theater, and JAW keeps faith with the theatrical tradition of the new.

The passing of Cascadia founder David Bernstein, and other leadership transitions.

The City of Portland tells the Regional Arts & Culture Council it's going to go it alone on arts policy and funding – and it's taking its money with it.

Erin Grant is named the Portland Art Museum's assistant curator of Native American art; the revered Indigenous artist Pitt has an "evening" with friends and followers at Fort Vancouver.

Keller Auditorium, which is susceptible to earthquake damage, must be upgraded -- or maybe replaced. Also: The elk is finally close to a return, but Abe and Teddy still wait while the city talks.

The troubled festival calls on a favored prince to be its new artistic director. Plus: A new Josie Seid play, 76 trombones in Eugene, last call for gothic cabaret, and more.

As Oregon lawmakers stumble through a long Senate walkout and then rush to finish business, a cultural sector still hurting from Covid shutdowns loses on several fronts.

The Music Critics Association of North America chooses ArtsWatch writers Angela Allen as secretary and James Bash as treasurer.

The museum names Amy Behrens, executive director of a Southern California cultural center and botanical gardens, to lead it into the future.

This year’s five-week festival, commencing this weekend, highlights the relationship between two art forms.

As Portland Art Museum decommissions Whitsell Auditorium, PAM CUT looks across the river for a new home.

Plus: Award recipients Jacqueline Stewart and Jon Raymond talk with Marc Mohan about film history, creativity, and their current and upcoming projects.

The longtime Portland theater figure and Broadway producer wins again, this time for the musical revival of "Parade."

A celebration of the theater leader's life is June 19; Oregon immigrant stories move to Hillsboro; small grants help bring 16 Latino art projects to life.

Also: Japanese American Museum's new leader, springtime for taxes (and donations), sprucing up the libraries.

In a new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with two key figures in the festival remembering the Vanport Flood of 1948 and its continuing cultural effect.

The eighth annual Vanport Mosaic Festival, remembering the flood and its legacy, begins. Also: Schnitzer Hall gets too hot to handle; Carlos Kalmar is investigated.

Finding beauty in the movement of the possible; visiting the art museum amid construction; a costuming apprenticeship; a Buttigieg in the house.

The artistic director of the embattled Oregon Shakespeare Festival departs as the company is in the midst of an emergency fund drive to keep its season going.

Portland’s ambitious, forward-looking classical music radio station is expanding its scope, creating space for live performances, and relocating to downtown Portland.

Check the shelves: It's Independent Bookstore Day. Also: Indigenous arts fellowships, take the arts survey, "The Judy" opens its doors.

An Oregon music legend passes, leaders of the state’s two top orchestras move on, and other news in Oregon music.

Long-delayed remodel is moving ahead at the home of Portland's second-biggest theater company. Doors are expected to open for audiences in 10 months.

The venerable Ashland festival’s effort to save the 2023 season follows years of wildfires, pandemic shutdowns, and staff turnover. Plus, openings, closings, and this weekend's shows.

A week before opening night, the Ashland festival puts out a plea for $2.5 million to "save our season."

"Our Creative Future," a two-year, broad-based planning effort, seeks to set the tone for the growth and stability of the region's arts culture over the next 10 years.

The Dutch-born painter, whose work was often rooted in his childhood memories of Nazi occupation, explored the dark reaches and possibilities of the human condition.

Dawn Babb Prochovnic receives the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award, and Gary Miranda the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, during the Literary Arts event.

The world's oldest performing drag queen, who has died at 92, spent decades helping Portland smile, open up a little, and just grow up.

The Dalles Art Center is racing to raise enough money to keep its doors open. (So far, so good.) And in nearby Hood River, another arts center is out to reinvent itself.

Beware, dancemaker Katherine Longstreth argues. Big Data wants to mine your creativity for profit, with no credit or compensation to you.

New leadership is coming to the Columbia Gorge museum. Plus: Send in the Clowns Without Borders; an –Ism book launch; Central Library takes a break; last call at the Portland Art Museum; cultural caucus grows.

The Portland artist and activist is the winner of this year's Bonnie Bronson Visual Arts Fellowship. Also: a master painter and calligrapher at the Portland Chinatown Museum.

Remembering Chapman, the legendary Portland theater costume designer, and Holden, who was a cofounder of CoHo Theatre.

Snow? Yes, that event might be canceled. A new future for a troubled public square. Converge 45 names '23 artists. Mattaliano on the operatic life.

As several cultural measures seek passage, for the first time Oregon's Legislature has a caucus to push for cultural funding in the state budget. Also, for nonprofits: statewide conversations with funders.

Choreographer Danielle Rowe is named Oregon Ballet Theatre's new artistic director; interim leader Peter Franc stays as artistic consultant.