AFTA’s 2008 - 2009 Grant Awards Announced!

Artists for the Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2008 - 2009 granting season. AFTA has the privilege to award grants to 15 individual school programs this year for a total of approximately $10,000. Winning schools include elementary schools, middle schools and high schools throughout the Metro Area. Projects include music, photography, architectural drafting, printmaking, quilt making, theater, fine arts, mural painting, ceramic tile making and others.

Please visit our Grants Recipients page to learn more. As we all know, giving is more challenging for many businesses and individuals now than ever before. AFTA salutes all of our supporters this year for continuing to prioritize arts as an indispensable part of our kids’ lives – as well as all of the caring educators who submitted grant proposals this year. 

Winning schools are: Alder Creek Middle School, Atkinson School, Clackamas High School, Concord Elementary, El Puente Bilingual School, Fir Ridge Campus, Irvington School, Jefferson High School/ YMA, Milwaukie Elementary School, New Urban High School, North Powellhurst Elementary, PACE Program @ Sabin-Schellenberg Center, Peninsula K-8, Rowe Middle School and Sunrise Middle School.

Thirty One Show Raises $1000 for Arts Education

In August of 2008, thirty one Portland artists were challenged to create thirty one paintings each in thirty one days. The resulting 961-piece extravaganza of affordable art was unveiled to the public at OM Tradition Arts in Portland - raising $1000 to benefit Artists for the Arts and its 2008 - 2009 granting season!

The room was packed to the rafters for this second-annual event (the first being the “Thirty Show”, of course!), organized by Portland-based painter and curator Flora S. Bowley. AFTA offers Flora - and each of the thirty one artists who gave of their time, talent and passion - our heartiest appreciation.

Will there be a Thirty Two show in 2009? Check out the Thirty Show website and stay tuned…

AFTA now on Facebook

AFTA is now a group on Facebook.  If you have a Facebook account, we’re asking everyone to become a fan and stay updated on how we’re bringing art and music to Portland metro-area schools. 

AFTA-FUNDED Aloha High School DIVERSITY WEEK PROJECT FEATURED ON FOX 12 OREGON

Funding from AFTA’s 2007 – 2008 Annual Grant Program helped film students from Aloha High School create a Diversity Week documentary for “Aloha TV” about the school’s ESL program.  Their work was featured on Fox 12 Oregon News! AFTA funds helped the school purchase equipment such as a video camera and microphones to film the production, as well for use in future film classes. Congratulations to the students, and instructor Matthew Fox, on this successful in-school arts project!