05/09/2018 - City of Tigard Awarded Coveted National Endowment for the Arts Grant . City of Tigard
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13125 SW Hall Boulevard Tigard, Oregon 97223 www.tigard-or.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2018
Contact: Lauren Scott
Community Engagement Coordinator
City of Tigard
503-718-2595 Laurens@tigard-or.gov
City of Tigard Awarded Coveted National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Tigard, Oregon--National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced 60 awards
totaling$4.1 million supporting projects across the nation through the NEA's Our Town program. The
City of Tigard is one of 60 recommended organizations for a grant of$75,000 to add interpretative
elements and artworks as part of an Outdoor Museum along the Tigard Street Heritage Trail.
"The variety and quality of these Our Town projects speaks to the wealth of creativity and diversity in our
country," said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. "Through the work of organizations such as the City of Tigard,
NEA funding invests in local communities, helping people celebrate the arts wherever they are."
The NEA grant will fund two types of artworks as part of this project, three large public artworks that will
be selected by a jury, and a number of smaller interpretative art pieces that will developed and created by
Principal Artist Suenn Ho, the primary designer behind the Garden of Surging Waves project in Astoria.
The larger works will incorporate historic narratives into thought provoking pieces about our shared
history and future.
"Our project,Tigard's Outdoor Museum,is a crucial next step in the revitalization and reimagining of
our downtown," said Tigard Mayor John L. Cook. "The museum will serve to anchor visitors in time and
place,interpret our region's rich history through art, and provide an opportunity to consider a future of
possibilities. The project will artistically weave together our many stories using the common yarn of rail
history."
For a complete list of projects recommended for Our Town grant support,please visit the NEA web site at
arts.gov.
To join the Twitter conversation about this announcement,please tag the NEA @NEAarts and use the
hashtag#NEASpringl8.
Valuable support for this project was provided by Mayor John Cook, Senator Ron Wyden, Senator
Merkley, and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici.
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