Career Opportunity Grants

Career Opportunity Grants provide financial support to Oregon artists to enable them to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their careers through the development of arts, business or professional skills to expand marketing capacity and/or to further develop the nature or quality of their artwork. Grant amounts may range from $300 to $1,500.

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Individual Artist Fellowship

October 15, 2010

The Commission recognizes the achievements of Oregon artists and the contributions they make to the cultural health of the state through its annual Artist Fellowship grants, non-matching $3,000 grants to a select group of the state's most innovative creators. The Commission considers applications annually according to artistic discipline. The FY2011 program is open to literacy and performing artists.

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Oregon Media Arts Fellowship

Oregon Media Arts Fellowship(s) provide financial and other support for production expenses to enable Oregon film or video artists to create or complete new work or works in progress. They recognize and assist media artists whose work shows exceptional promise and who have demonstrated a commitment to film or video art. The Oregon Arts Commission, the Gordon D. Sondland and Katherine J. Durant Foundation and Oregon Public Broadcasting fund the program. The Media Arts Fellowship program is administered by the Northwest Film Center/Portland Art Museum. Additional support is provided by the Governor's Office of Film and Television and the Chambers Communications in Eugene.

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Read about the 2009 Media Arts Fellowship Award

Career Opportunity Grant recipient Marie Watt, Forget-Me-Not: Mothers & Sons, at the PAM Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, 2008.

Career Opportunity Grant recipient Marie Watt, Forget-Me-Not: Mothers & Sons, at the PAM Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, 2008.