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Lane Arts Council works to strengthen and support the arts throughout Lane County by serving as a supportive, central community organization for artists, artistic and cultural organizations, patrons, and participants. Please take a look around our website and learn about our arts education programs in schools, First Friday ArtWalk, professional development workshops and more!

Risk/Reward is dedicated to the advancement and proliferation of the Art of Performance. Founded by artists and located in Portland, Oregon, we champion new and experimental theater, dance, music and performance events as a vital cultural force in our community. Our actions strive to: Increase access to the diverse forms of contemporary performance, while deepening public appreciation and support for performance works of all kinds. Support the creation of new, significant, innovative performances that both challenge and reflect the values of our community. Cultivate passionate and engaged audiences that are hungry for adventurous performance work with connections to a global arts and culture dialogue. Promote intersections between diverse artistic disciplines, while forging connections between local, regional, national, and international artistic communities. Provide direct, meaningful opportunities for audiences to interact with artists, investigate their ideas, learn about their methods of creation and support their ongoing careers.

"Our mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Connecting your best ideas and leaders from the arts, communities, and business, together we can work to ensure that every American has access to the transformative power of the arts"

"The Lotus Education & Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization based in Bloomington, Indiana (est. 1994). Its mission is to create opportunities to experience, celebrate, and explore the diversity of the world's cultures, through music and the arts. All Lotus programming supports the institutional mission: the annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival; Lotus Blossoms Educational Outreach; and Edible Lotus; as well as special programming and events with community partners."

The Copyright Alliance is seeking videos from artists and supporters on why the arts matter. The videos submitted will be edited into a grassroots message to Congress from artists and their supporters and used in contexts including the ongoing Copyright Act review to advance the positions advocated by the Copyright Alliance. For more information on the Copyright Alliance visit our web site at copyrightalliance.org.

"Over 50 artists from Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be at the Northwest Crossing Bend Spring Festival this year showcasing fiber, sculpture, jewelry, painting, wood, metal, paper and pottery arts. Support these artisans as they travel to Bend to introduce themselves to our community, or return to connect with a loyal fan base."

"The fundamental goal of the Urban Institute's Arts and Culture Indicators Project (ACIP) is to help policymakers make better decisions for neighborhoods and cities. To this end, ACIP provides researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with information about the presence and role of arts and culture in communities-how arts and culture affect neighborhood conditions and community dynamics. Specifically, ACIP develops quantifiable measures of arts and culture and integrates them into quality of life measurement systems that can compare conditions across communities and in the same community over time. Launched in the late 1990s with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, ACIP's basic premises are (a) that a healthy place to live includes opportunities for and the presence of arts, culture, and creative expression, (b) that arts, culture, and creative expression are important determinants of how communities fare, and by extension (c) that full understanding of U.S. communities is inherently impossible without including these important perspectives."

"OSLP Arts and Culture is a person-centered arts program where individuals of all abilities can explore and share their skills and pursue their personal artistic goals. Our Mission OSLP Arts & Culture breaks down barriers to participation in the arts for people of all abilities and builds bridges to a more diverse and inclusive community"

Red Bull and Google Maps here are supporting street art around the world by allowing people to see exactly where some major pieces are in the world using google maps.

"Mission (sub)Urban Projections champions emerging artists, cultivates community, and generates vibrancy in downtown Eugene through a multimedia arts festival. Vision (sub)Urban Projections is a free festival that strives to create a vibrant and colorful environment fostering conversation and appreciation for contemporary art and new media. Through digital projections, the streets and alleys will be illuminated and the downtown landscape transformed, creating an inviting atmosphere for people to gather and enjoy the city while supporting local businesses, artists, and culture."

Forward-looking organizers have turned to thinking inside the box for a new way to promote visual artists. Some of the artists, meanwhile, are thinking outside the box to produce 50 small works each. Modeled after community-supported agriculture programs in which participants buy shares in a farm and later receive boxes of produce, community-supported arts initiatives have sprouted on both sides of the river.

Brazilian graffiti artists join demonstrations against the Brazil World Cup, using the streets as a canvass to express their discontent. Protesters are angry about the government spending billions on World Cup infrastructure rather than basic public services. Graffiti artist Paulo Ito says the World Cup is an ideal platform for residents to demand action from the government

"The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. To date, the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. The NEA extends its work through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector. - See more at: http://arts.gov/about#sthash.9wrdFNYu.dpuf"

We are a talent delivery system. We select students and recent graduates (within 3 years of graduation) of the best creative programs around the country, and connect them with funding, expert advice, and logistical support for the production of art, media and design projects that examine urgent real world topics. Since 2006, we have partnered with students and recent graduates of the nation's top art schools to deliver a steady stream of innovative works to the public.

Student Sustainability Coalition acts as hub, catalyst, support network, and community empowerment space for passionate students at the University of Oregon. We strive for peer-to-peer student leadership a emphasize cross-movement partnerships to build a better world.

W.O.W. Hall is providing cultural arts and educational opportunities for all ages and income levels in Eugene. It is a multipurpose community arts center, and maintaining a supportive environment for local artists and their creative efforts.

WomenArts works to empower an international community of women artists and allies by sharing news about inspiring arts projects and opportunities, and by facilitating the annual world-wide Support Women Artists Now (SWAN) celebrations in March and April.

Drag and drop gifs, songs, videos, buckets of paint, or whatever you wish in open spaces called fields. You can invite friends to your fields and collaborate with them. Make it public for others to see. Discover new work, pull and edit fields, explore the user-generated libraries, and support the creative community.

I just downloaded it am going to play with it. Looks like a lot of fun and a offers the possibility of collaboration between people with different art interests. Thanks for sharing!

The site is billed as a "studio space where you can collage the internet." It's a relatively easy tool for combining your favorite Web objects - images, GIFs, video, audio - into one gloriously insane digital mashup.