Bailey has stepped in as PassinArt’s new managing director, a spot left vacant by the passing of co-founder Connie Carley in 2022. Bailey joins Jerry Foster, artistic director since 1995, to lead the company in a time of considerable promise and forward movement.
Bailey has stepped in as PassinArt’s new managing director, a spot left vacant by the passing of co-founder Connie Carley in 2022. Bailey joins Jerry Foster, artistic director since 1995, to lead the company in a time of considerable promise and forward movement.
The Albina Arts center was once a significant cultural hub for Black communities in North and Northeast Portland. But the building had fallen into disrepair and various plans have been proposed to reinvent and revitalize it. Darrell Grant, a musician and professor of Jazz Studies at Portland State University, began holding cultural events at the space last year, and partnered with writer and artist Renee Mitchell to create the Soul Restoration Center this year.
For just over a decade, the Albina Arts Center was a vibrant cultural hub for both its neighborhood and the city at large. Now, even local leaders and Portland natives are surprised to learn of the significance of the aging building at 8 Northeast Killingsworth Street.