Visual Arts Program
The Ford Family Foundation established the Visual Arts Program in 2010 to honor the late Hallie Ford's interests in the visual arts with the intent to help accelerate an enhanced quality of artistic endeavor and work by Oregon's most promising visual artists and to improve Oregon's visual arts ecology. This $3.5 million, five-year proactive grant program provides a range of resources to assist these artists and the visual arts institutions that further the creation and exhibition of Oregonians' work. Note: applications for the several elements of this special (proactive) Foundation program are by invitation only through Requests for Proposals (RFPs) or similar announcements and calls for submissions. Visual Arts funding is not part of the Foundation's Responsive Grant categories.