Eugene artists receive Career Opportunity grants to fund projects
In the second and final round of the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation’s “Career Opportunity Program” grant awards, 31 Oregon artists were allotted $83,321 for career development projects.
The awards, ranging from $880 to $7,500, include stipends for local artists Mika Aono and Kathleen Caprario.
Career Opportunity Grants are meant to enable individual Oregon artists to take advantage of timely opportunities to enhance arts careers. The Ford Family Foundation funds are available to established Oregon visual artists producing new contemporary art and craft. Most grants support the artists’ participation in residencies, exhibitions or performance opportunities.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Zucchino on his new book,
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
For many decades, what little most North Carolinians knew of the events of 1898 in the port city of Wilmington was that the town had been the site of a memorable and destructive “race riot.”
In recent years, however, this characterization has been demonstrated to have been an absurd and destructive whitewash. In fact, what took place was a brutal insurrection and a rare instance of a violent overthrow of an elected government in the U.S. It halted gains made by Blacks and restored racism as official government policy, cementing white rule for another half century.
Join us
Wednesday, March 10 at 3:30 p.m. for a very special (and virtual) Crucial Conversation:
Satana Deberry and Dawn Blagrove: A conversation about race, mass incarceration and criminal justice reform in North Carolina
By all indications, North Carolina and the nation at-large have entered a critical and, perhaps, hopeful phase in their centuries-old conversations about race, crime, punishment and the undeniable links between them. Even, however, as advocates and elected leaders have succeeded in enacting new laws and policies designed to address the racism and other destructive biases that have long infected our criminal justice system, many powerful defenders of the status quo persist.
Mika Aono and Neal Williams making prints. Photo by Kathleen Caprario.
Lane Community College art instructor Kathleen Caprario was a textile design artist in New York City before she moved to Oregon. When she came to Eugene in the late ’70s her attention turned from textiles to landscapes.
In
A Critical Conversation, at Eugene Contemporary Art’s ANTI-AESTHETIC gallery through March 21, she merges her interest in pattern and the environment with the topic of race.
Sponsored by a Black Lives Matter artist grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and a 2020 Lane Arts artist grant, the gallery show features work by eleven artists and four poets, as well as two panel discussions and a March 6 screen print performance.
9 articles to revisit: Learn about local Black history and presence every month
1. Learn about the history of the Black Cultural Center at the University of Oregon
In 2015, the Black Student Task Force on the University of Oregon campus gave the administration a list of 12 demands. The group wanted changes that would better reflect an environment that was safe and accepting of Black students, and that worked toward the UO’s stated mission of promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.
Some of those demands were never met. But one that was met four years later brings a significant change to campus.
In 2019, history was made at the UO when the long-awaited Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center opened to cheers of the students who had long fought for it.