Prosper Portland awards $1.3M+ in Reimagine Oregon Grant Awards 
 Prosper Portland recently announced its second round of grants from the Reimagine Oregon Economic Opportunity Investment Fund, which are funded with cannabis tax revenue. The organization’s Board of Directors approved more than $1.3 million in grant funding for 25 businesses, all of which received individual investments ranging from $17,000 to $100,000.
Arts & Culture Small Grants Program partner Friends of IFCC and several of our General Operating Support grantees, including Friends of Noise and Portland Playhouse, were among those who received funding.
 Visual Chronicle of Portland artist spotlight: David Rice
David Rice’s Window 7 (2021), photo courtesy of RACC
The goal of David Rice’s work is to create environments that exist beyond the parameters of our physical world. He often focuses on themes of identity, how we see ourselves and as we are perceived by others. His work creates a new sense of nostalgia for the viewer. Something that seems familiar, but has yet to happen.
Window 7 (2021) is part of a series of photo-realistic paintings on paper examining the subject of windows throughout Portland neighborhoods. As Rice walked through the mostly empty streets of his neighborhood during the COVID-19 pandemic, he was curious about what people were doing during this period of being confined indoors. Often Rice would see a reflection of the view from across the street in the window of glass, making the windows appear as mirrors. Rice found symbolism in the act of trying to see into a space and only being able to see a reflection of the outside world.
This piece is one of 21 artworks by 11 artists recently acquired for the City of Portland’s Visual Chronicle of Portland, a collection of works on paper that serve as an eclectic view of life in Portland and a record of artists working in the city dating back to 1985. The Collection features 463 works by 270 artists, which are displayed in City-owned spaces throughout Portland.
Arts & Culture contracts RACC to curate, manage, and maintain the City of Portland’s public art collection, including the Visual Chronicle of Portland.
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MusicOregon is the first statewide organization to create grant programs for the sole purpose of supporting the unique needs of musicians, and their Echo Fund empowers local music-makers to undertake creative, non-performance projects that support new growth and spur creative and career development.
New artworks by Indigenous artists and Grand Ronde Tribal Members Zoey Holsclaw and Nakoa Mercier were recently installed in Downtown Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park near the Hawthorne Bridge, and Portlanders are invited to explore these impactful, culturally relevant pieces through spring 2026.
In alignment with Creating Together’s goal of connecting and creating partnership pathways between community arts organizations, teaching artists, and schools in Portland, the City of Portland has created and launched a Teaching Artists Directory. In addition to being published on this website, the directory will be shared with educators across Portland’s six school districts and charter schools, all of which receive disbursements from the 
On October 23, Arts & Culture’s Director Chariti Montez joined KATU Anchor Wesleigh Ogle to talk about 
