SALEM, Ore.- Awards totaling $1,378,696 will be distributed to 181 Oregon arts organizations through the Oregon Arts Commission’s Operating Support Program for fiscal year 2025.
Ranging from $3,300 to $20,000, the unrestricted awards are available to nonprofit arts organizations with annual budgets of more than $150,000.
The arts commission determines awards based on the number of applications and available grant funds.
“Operating support is crucial to organizations as these funds can be used at their discretion to sustain artistic programming,” said Arts Commission Chair, Subashini Ganesan-Forbes. “Grant recipients (and their peers) also see this grant as a sign of our trust in their vision, capacity, and importance to the Oregon arts ecosystem.”
There are 25 organizations new to the program this year, as the number of eligible organizations has grown.
South Coast
- Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay: $4,593
- Egyptian Theater Preservation Association, Coos Bay: $3,837
Southern
- Camelot Theatre Company, Talent: $7,020
- Collaborative Theatre Project Inc., Medford: $4,011
- Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass: $3,863
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association, Ashland: $20,000
- Peter Britt Gardens Arts and Music Festival Association, Medford: $20,000
- Rogue Valley Art Association, Medford: $4,975
- Rogue Valley Chorale Association, Medford: $4,128
- Rogue World Music, Ashland: $4,747
- Southern Oregon Film Society, Ashland: $5,750
- Southern Oregon University/ Chamber Music Concerts, Ashland: $4,747
- Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon, Medford: $3,863
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