Portland, OR. With no end in sight for the COVID-19 lockdown, State mandates surrounding interactive museums and exhibits continue to affect the operation status of many organizations, including the Portland Children’s Museum, which remains closed.
One way staffers are continuing to serve the community is through popular summer camps. Located in the Portland Children’s Museum building itself, the kids attending have the unique experience of spending time in the museum without any of the normal attendees.
Under creative and strict social distancing measures, the campers are able to spend time in a unique setting under the Children Museum’s philosophy of “learning through play.”
Aside from the summer camps, the staff at the Children’s Museum is making a big effort to reach families at home through its Museum@Home newsletters. These are filled with clever ways for children and their parents to spend time learning together through activities that only require common household supplies, such as “nest” building and focus on thinking “outside of the box.”
From the Portland Children’s Museum, here’s all you need to know about camps:
The Museum may still be closed to the public, but 2020 Summer Camps are on and OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!
Beginning in July and running through August, Portland Children’s Museum will offer weekly camps with added safety measures for children ages 4–10. Using Governor Kate Brown’s statewide Guidance for School-Aged Summertime Day Camps, we have reenvisioned Summer Camp plans in order to continue to explore, discover, and create together this July and August!
What to Expect this Summer:
Groups of 10 or Less: Campers will be in stable groups of 10 or fewer with consistent staff members for their entire week of camp. If siblings are attending, they will be in the same group as each other despite age differences.
Building Closed to Public: Portland Children’s Museum will be closed to the public. Campers will have the unique opportunity to play and enjoy the Museum in their small group during the week without being alongside the regular summer crowds.
Designated Spaces & Staggered Timing: Each camp group will have designated indoor classroom space, bathrooms, and entrance to the building used only by their group and sanitized multiple times each day. Time in the indoor and outdoor Museum spaces will be staggered to ensure distance and time to sanitize between groups.
Wellness Surveys: Campers and staff will have wellness surveys each day to screen for symptoms of illness. This will include a temperature reading, checking for any new symptoms, and any known exposure to COVID-19.
Meal Modifications: Campers will be required to bring their own lunch and snacks for health safety reasons.Read the Museum’s Communicable Disease Management Plan.
Our Mission: To develop innovative problem-solvers through playful learning experiences that strengthen relationships between children and their world.
Our Vision: We envision a world where everyone retains and values the innate curiosity, creativity, and empathy of childhood.
Portland, September 10th, 2015. If you couldn’t join the thousands who flocked to Pioneer Courthouse Square for The Standard’s Annual Volunteer Expo, you’re in luck. We’ve got all the information and website links to explore over 125 local nonprofits that could use your time.
A full list of links of nonprofits is at the bottom of our story.
R. Richard Crockett, (left) is the Program Operations Director & Volunteer Coordinator at Chess for Success.
Classroom Law Project is a non-profit organization of individuals, educators, lawyers, and civic leaders building strong communities by teaching students to become active citizens.
The Standard’s Volunteer Expo has repeat participants year after year, here’s a look at some nonprofits which continue to recruit volunteers:
Jenny Bedell-Stiles and Andy Meeks from Friends of Trees
talks with Casey Rhodes and Clark Hays.
Jenny Chu from Literary Arts
New Avenues For Youth volunteers are a hit every year because they dish out the free Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream!
Rachel Randles from Oregon Historical Society
The Volunteers of America recruited some new volunteers!
Special Olympics Oregon has room for coaches and event volunteers.
Newspace Center for Photography promoted its multidimensional photography resource center and community hub for students, working artists, professional photographers, educators, and photo-enthusiasts of all types.
Latino Network’s Edgar Ortega
Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metro Area had a colorful display.
The Work for Art’s Community Fund and Arts Education Fund support more than 80 arts and culture organizations every year—encompassing dance, visual arts, music, literary arts, media arts, theater, cultural arts, and arts education.
IMPACT NW drew prospective volunteers who learned that each year over 60,000 low-income children, youth, families, seniors, and adults with disabilities participate in Impact NW’s comprehensive anti-poverty programs.
The YMCA was handing out information about programs.
People who stopped by The Q Center booth were met with a friendly smile.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Oregon Chapter staffers promoted their many volunteer options.
Reps from the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon explained their work on behalf of local cats and kittens.
American Red Cross volunteer recruiters had the trademark red vests!
The mission of the Make-A-Wish Oreogn Foundation® is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
Northwest Pilot Project began in 1969 as an all volunteer agency to provide basic supports for seniors at risk of losing their ability to live independently.
Miracle Theatre Group is The Northwest’s premiere Latino arts and culture organization.
Camp Fire offers opportunities for volunteers who like to work with kids.
Bridge Meadows is a multi-generation housing community serving Oregon’s vulnerable populations; foster youth, adoptive parents and elders (55+).
Here’s a list of links to charities at the The Standard’s Volunteer Expo. Please consider donating your time, and tell them PortlandSocietyPage.com sent you!
Portland, April 4th, 2015. The Portland Children’s Museum is presenting Hannah Viano, Author of S is for Salmon: A Northwest Alphabet, and the upcoming book Arrow to Alaska: A Northwest Adventure, as Artist in Residence for its 2015 Artist in Residence Season.
Hannah Viano, Author of S is for Salmon: A Northwest Alphabet.
S is for Salmon: A Northwest Alphabet book.
Visitors to Portland Children’s Museum can now create artwork with talented professional artists through the museum’s Artist in Residence Program, an ongoing artist series. Funded through Summer 2017 by generous donations from Arlene Schnitzer and The Collins Foundation—with additional funding this year from Regional Arts & Culture Council and Juliet Ashby Hillman Foundation—the program provides museum guests opportunities to explore high quality art materials and the artistic process at the Museum.
As part of the 2015 Artist in Residence season, Hannah Viano will be onsite for a number of days through April 30th, 2015. She will be working with children and families to complete an illustrated guide of the plants and animals found in Outdoor Adventure, the Museum’s outdoor play space which opened on Earth Day of 2014. Hannah’s process involves observation of nature through painting, drawing, paper cutting, and screen printing.
Join the Portland Children’s Museum and Hannah Viano for some creative play and learning on various week and weekend days, including Earth Day, April 22nd; and for a Gallery Showing of completed final works in the Portland Children’s Museum’s Art Gallery from May 1st through July 25th. For more information about specific dates and times the artist will be in studio please visit www.portlandcm.org/hannah-viano. To view images of Hannah Viano’s work visit hannahviano.com/.
For more information about Artist in Residence Programs or to apply for residency please contact [email protected].
ABOUT PORTLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
We’re a museum that doesn’t act like a museum because our audience—children and the adults who care for them—is more important to us than anything we collect. Instead of investing in precious objects, we create priceless opportunities for our visitors to learn through play.
LOCATION In Washington Park across from Oregon Zoo; 4015 SW Canyon Road, Portland, 97221
HOURS Open Daily, 9am-5pm • Target Free First Friday (first Friday every month) 4-8pm
ADMISSION Members: Free • Under age 1: Free; Ages 1-54: $10 • Over 55 & military: $9
Portland, December 20th, 2013. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) has awarded $661,543 in project grants for calendar year 2014, including 60 grants to nonprofit organizations and schools, and 88 individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. This sum is 10.7% less than RACC awarded for project grants last year, attributable primarily to across-the-board cuts from the City of Portland, RACC’s largest funding source. Clackamas County, Washington County, Multnomah County, Metro, and Work for Art also help fund these project grants.
With applications at an all-time high, this year’s grants were especially competitive – only 42% of all requests were fully or partially funded. Even so, many individual artists were successful in securing RACC funds for the first time – 60% of all funded artists and 20% of all funded organizations this cycle are receiving their first RACC project grant.
Fifty-eight volunteers served on 14 different panels organized by discipline. Most (93%) served as a RACC panelist for the first time, and 38% identified as non-Caucasian and/or multicultural. Guided by staff during the months of October, November and December, these volunteers evaluated 134 proposals based on artistic merit, audience development and financial accountability, and forwarded their final recommendations to the RACC board of directors, which approved the grants on December 18.
First-time grant recipients David Ornette Cherry, a jazz and world music composer, will integrate storytelling, visual arts installation, and his Organic Nation band into a music performance; Anthony Hudson (aka Carla Rossi) will host a monologue and song-driven cabaret utilizing storytelling, music, dance, video and drag to tell the story of Weimar Germany juxtaposed against contemporary America; and playwright Deborah Rodney will further develop her original musical play for youth, “Bully the Kid,” through a series of community readings.
Badass Theatre Company received their first RACC project grant to support an upcoming production of Sans Merci by Johnna Adams. Colored Pencils Art and Culture Council plans to develop a series of events in partnership with Multnomah County libraries to promote local authors and ESL students from diverse communities. The Northwest Animation Festival will use its first award to showcase the breadth of animation for NW audiences, and The Projects Festival will present workshops, panels and performances with experimental artists working in comics.
The Art Gym in Clackamas County will feature a major exhibition and publication for Vanessa Renwick, and Christopher Mooney will exhibit his large scale portraits depicting workers on the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Willamette River Bridge.
Washington County residents will see a new round of Ten Tiny Dances presented by the Beaverton Arts Commission and new mosaic pavers created by the community with artist Lynn Adamo installed at the Shute Park Library in Hillsboro.
In addition, an anonymous donor continues to provide special funding for an annual “Innovation Prize” of $2,500. This year’s award for outstanding, innovative, media-oriented project goes to Laura Heit for a hand drawn animated installation and film titled “Two Ways Down.”
“RACC has been working hard to reach out and collaborate with new artists and new artistic communities in the region, and I believe that this fantastic slate of upcoming projects reflects that commitment,” Eloise Damrosch, executive director of RACC. “We are looking forward to another year of creation and innovation, and we will continue evolving our process and procedures to ensure that we are supporting a diverse array of artists and organizations in our community.”
A complete listing of grants appears below, and summaries of each grant are available at www.racc.org/2014projectgrants.
Note: (*) denotes Clackamas County applicants, and (**) denotes Washington County based applicants. All other applicants are based in Multnomah County.
Individual Artist
Category/Discipline
Amount
Lynn Adamo **
Community Participation
$ 3,947
Andrew C. Anderson Furgeson
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,400
Yulia Arakelyan
Dance/Movement
$ 5,675
David Bee
Media Arts
$ 4,500
Heather Lee Birdsong
Visual Arts
$ 3,041
Paul Cavanagh
Literature
$ 4,973
Meshi Chavez
Dance/Movement
$ 3,404
David Ornette Cherry
Music
$ 4,500
Taiga Christie
Community Participation
$ 3,759
Krista Connerly
Visual Arts
$ 4,500
Tyler Corbett
Visual Arts
$ 4,230
Lori Damiano
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,129
Zackery C. Denfeld
Social Practice
$ 6,000
Steven Doughton
Media Arts
$ 4,798
Melanie Flood
Visual Arts
$ 4,421
Jack T. Gabel
Music
$ 5,870
Jeff Gierer
Community Participation
$ 5,100
Damien Gilley
Visual Arts
$ 4,784
Daniel J. Glendening
Visual Arts
$ 5,320
Cheryl Green
Media Arts
$ 4,600
Michael Griggs
Theatre
$ 6,000
Stacey Hallal
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,350
Jo Hamilton
Visual Arts
$ 4,232
Allie Hankins
Dance/Movement
$ 4,336
Wayne Harrel
Theatre
$ 2,194
Jen Harrison
Music
$ 5,686
Laura Heit
Multi-Discipline
$ 3,662
Laura Heit
Multi-Discipline
$ 2,500
Hector Hernandez
Community Participation
$ 4,309
Justin Hocking
Community Participation
$ 4,035
Tahni Holt
Dance/Movement
$ 5,150
Kurtis Hough
Media Arts
$ 5,100
Anthony Hudson
Multi-Discipline
$ 2,866
Laura Hughes
Visual Arts
$ 5,168
Linda Hutchins
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,800
Lawrence Johnson
Media Arts
$ 5,700
Evan La Londe
Visual Arts
$ 2,805
Mark LaPierre
Theatre
$ 3,013
Jeff Leake
Arts-In-Schools
$ 3,788
Waylon Lenk
Literature
$ 2,778
Ellen Lesperance
Visual Arts
$ 2,883
Alain LeTourneau
Media Arts
$ 5,905
Brian Lindstrom
Community Participation
$ 4,800
Gabriel Liston
Visual Arts
$ 1,588
Joaquin Lopez **
Multi-Discipline
$ 3,216
Dana Lynn Louis
Visual Arts
$ 5,100
Anna Magruder
Visual Arts
$ 2,986
Susannah Mars *
Theatre
$ 4,204
Jim McGinn
Dance/Movement
$ 5,400
Anita Menon **
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,328
Stephen Miller
Multi-Discipline
$ 3,071
Renee Mitchell
Community Participation
$ 5,355
Christopher Mooney *
Visual Arts
$ 4,500
Emily Myers
Visual Arts
$ 3,285
Sarah Nagy
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,100
Motoya Nakamura
Visual Arts
$ 5,430
Loren Nelson **
Visual Arts
$ 4,025
Caroline Oakley
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,640
Chris G. Parkhurst
Media Arts
$ 5,320
Susan E. Peck
Community Participation
$ 3,998
Roger Peet
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,310
Andrew Phoenix
Theatre
$ 4,708
Ryan Pierce
Visual Arts
$ 5,236
Tracy Pitts
Media Arts
$ 4,309
Melissa Reeser Poulin
Literature
$ 4,423
Alicia Jo Rabins
Music
$ 3,400
Wendy Red Star
Visual Arts
$ 4,313
Vanessa Olivia Renwick
Media Arts
$ 4,930
Jen Delos Reyes
Literature
$ 3,881
Dmae Roberts
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,800
Deborah Rodney
Community Participation
$ 3,990
Danielle Ross
Dance/Movement
$ 4,654
Paul X. Rutz
Visual Arts
$ 4,280
Julie Sabatier
Media Arts
$ 4,304
Tracy Schlapp
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,893
Stephanie Simek
Visual Arts
$ 4,220
Anne Sorce
Theatre
$ 5,092
Dao Strom
Multi-Discipline
$ 5,850
Marianna C. Thielen
Music
$ 4,570
Lorenzo Triburgo
Visual Arts
$ 5,301
Leslie Tucker
Visual Arts
$ 2,879
Philip Van Scotter
Media Arts
$ 4,256
Holcombe Waller
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,500
Shu-Ju Wang
Visual Arts
$ 4,729
Damaris Webb
Theatre
$ 4,223
James Westby **
Media Arts
$ 5,100
Kelly Williams
Community Participation
$ 5,990
Reeva Wortel
Visual Arts
$ 5,015
Erin Yanke
Media Arts
$ 5,038
Organization
Category/Discipline
Amount
45th Parallel
Music
$ 5,132
Badass Theatre Company
Theatre
$ 4,680
Beaverton Arts Commission **
Presenting
$ 5,415
Blackfish Gallery
Visual Arts
$ 3,825
Boom Arts
Theatre
$ 3,686
Cascadia Composers
Music
$ 3,000
Colored Pencils Art and Culture Council
Community Participation
$ 3,071
Community Alliance of Tenants
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,630
Conduit Dance, Inc.
Dance/Movement
$ 6,000
Creative Music Guild
Multi-Discipline
$ 4,463
Creative Science School PTA
Arts-In-Schools
$ 2,588
Curious Comedy Theater
Theatre
$ 5,520
Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center
Visual Arts
$ 5,700
Estacada Arts Commission *
Community Participation
$ 5,369
Estacada Together *
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,700
Fear No Music
Music
$ 4,500
George Middle School
Arts-In-Schools
$ 2,250
Grout Elementary
Arts-In-Schools
$ 4,400
In Mulieribus
Music
$ 4,294
India Cultural Association **
Community Participation
$ 4,350
Irvington School PTA
Arts-In-Schools
$ 5,100
Jewish Theatre Collaborative
Arts-In-Schools
$ 2,250
Ko-Falen Cultural Center
Arts-In-Schools
$ 1,548
Kukatonon
Community Participation
$ 4,500
Live on Stage
Theatre
$ 4,391
Los Portenos **
Theatre
$ 4,503
Media Rites
Media Arts
$ 4,388
MetroArts, Inc.
Music
$ 4,229
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO)
Community Participation
$ 4,500
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Folk Arts
$ 4,500
My Voice Music
Community Participation
$ 5,288
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Clackamas County (NAMI-CC) *
Portland, Ore- Portland Children’s Museum is delighted to announce that a recent gift from Target Corporation will continue the popular Free First Friday, a program that keeps the Museum open for free to visitors from 4 to 8 pm on the first Friday of each month. These evenings are part of the Community Partners program, which focuses on connecting with families facing barriers to accessing the Museum.
“Target Free First Friday makes a huge impact at the Museum,” said Carrie Hoops, Interim Executive Director. “We see record-breaking attendance numbers as a result of this program. The demand for low cost access to the museum is high and growing, and we are able to meet these frequent requests thanks to generous supporters like Target.”
Target First Free Fridays draw an average of 1,000 monthly visitors that otherwise would not have access to the Museum. This year the Museum expects more than 12,000 visitors for Target First Free Fridays alone.
To extend free access and reduced-cost memberships to qualified families, the Community Partners Program collaborates with over 200 organizations including Title I schools, libraries, government agencies, and non-profits to develop strategies that connect underserved communities to the arts. With Target’s help, the Museum’s Community Partners program will reach over 35,000 children and their families this year alone.
“At Target, we are committed to serving local communities where we do business,” said Laysha Ward, President, Community Relations, Target. “That’s why we are proud to partner with the Portland Children’s Museum as we work to strengthen communities and enrich the lives of our guests and team members.”
ABOUT TARGET
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,778 stores across the United States and at Target.com. The company plans to open its first stores in Canada in 2013. In addition, the company operates a credit card segment that offers branded proprietary credit card products. Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its profit through community grants and programs; today, that giving equals more than $4 million a week. For more information about Target’s commitment to corporate responsibility, visit Target.com/hereforgood.
ABOUT PORTLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
Portland Children’s Museum is the museum that doesn’t act like a museum. You won’t find any velvet ropes inside, and playing with and touching our exhibits is strongly encouraged. Our main exhibit is the imagination of the children who play here. Every activity from permanent to travelling exhibits is designed to encourage children to play and wonder while they learn about themselves and the world around them.
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