Welcome to Lane Arts Council

Lane Arts Council / YouthArts has promoted and supported artists and art throughout Eugene, Springfield, and central Lane County, Oregon, since 1976.

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o Join Lane Arts Council for First Friday ArtWalk on February 5, hosted by KVAL's Seth Wayne. The downtown Eugene tour begins at 5:30 p.m. at Passionflower, 128 E. Broadway, followed by hosted stops at Imagine Gallery, Studio West, New Zone, & DIVA. Always Free. ArtWalk details

(Photo: First Friday ArtWalk on January 8, 2010, at Brenner's new Green Living Gallery,with Hedda, center in blue, next to her camera. Left of her is ArtWalk Coordinator Jessica Watson; further left, Mycah and David Fendrich, managers of Brenner's.)

o Arts grants drop-in sessions, February 23rd and 24th; grant deadline April 29, 2010. Grants

o YouthArts: Artist Residencies and Performance Assemblies in schools, for details YouthArts

Lane Arts Council is busy scheduling 20 artists for Artists Residencies in 40 schools; a sampling for January 2010:

o Jose Cruz, Salsa dance and rhythms, 3 weeks at Adams Elementary.
o Liz Casey, Painting/Collage, 3 weeks at Howard Elementary.
o Laura Jackson, Glass, 4 weeks at Spring Creek Elementary.
o Janas Durkee. Murals, 2 weeks at Twin Oaks Elementary. (SEE Photo of Running Horses Mural, in progress.)
o Maggie Matoba, Hawaiian music, 4 weeks at Willagillespie Elementary.

o Kelly Thibodeaux, a 3-week fiddle music residency at Cascades Elementary in Lebanon.

ACT, a partnership with Lane ESD, Oakridge, McKenzie and Junction City school districts, and Lane Arts Council, is funded by a five -year ODE 21st Century Learning Centers grant.
o Alseny Yansane and Andrea DiPalma, African music, in Junction City's Oaklea Middle School after-school program.
o Merit Ferrell continues silk banner painting in after-school programs with Junction City High School students
o Alex Lanham begins ongoing Friday workshops in drawing and claywork with McKenzie High School students .

o Interns leading with many projects this year. Interns

o For Artists - updates

(YouthArts Photos: Oregon Festival Choirs’ Residency, with Heather Stein, at Crest Drive Elementary concert finale; Artist Janas Durkee, outdoors, leads an EcoArts residency at Latham School in Cottage Grove, October-November; Jose Cruz with salsa rhythms at Oaklea Middle School; Fiddler Kelly Thibodeaux coaches first-time fiddler during music Residency in a Eugene 4J school.; detail of a ocean-themed Silk Painting from a Merit Ferrell Residency. )

o The Arts Report Card, according to Amercian for the Arts: As reported in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and USAToday, the findings are "mediocre," "lackluster," and "may make America's arts instructors kind of blue." Released 2009 by the U.S. Department of Education. Arts Advocacy

o Make My Day ...Of Culture, October 8, 2009

o The Lane Arts Council Board elected new officers for the program year beginning July 2009. Board

o Grants Awarded to Projects and Program: In July 2009, Lane Arts Council announced $49,050 in grants in the Eugene area for 2009-2010. Lane County Cultural Coalition announced 2009 Grant Recipients, with $30,000 awarded. Grants

o National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) budget. Arts Advocacy