Call for applications: Metro’s Community Placemaking grants program

a little girl and a woman look at art work together in a school hallway

KSMoCA scanned and pieced together each drawing on display in the school's main hallway during the exhibition. Emily shows a museum patron what she drew.

Metro's Community Placemaking grants program has supported KSMoCA, an art museum at the Martin Luther King, Jr. School in Northeast Portland;

three people get up close to look at the mural paintings

People admired the mural paintings up close on the day of the unveiling.

murals that promote safety (and reflect unity, friendship and playfulness) at pedestrian bridges in Southeast Portland;

A group of performers dances on stage at Tonga Day at Gateway Discovery Park.

Young men kick up their heels during a dance performance at Tonga Day.

a festival that honors the cultures and contributions of people from the Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga;

a young man is about to put a pizza inside a cob oven

Ian Crane baked pizza at Supa Fresh Youth Farm's Autumn Harvest Festival.

a community over designed and built by young people with Supa Fresh Youth Farm in Tigard;

Photo courtesy of World Stage Theatre

the state's first Black History festival of its kind;

Art Saved My Life

art residencies that promote healing;

Free Arts NW

and a mobile arts studio that empowers underserved young people.

Jan. 4, 2019 8 a.m.

The 2019 award cycle for Metro’s Community Placemaking grants program is open. Apply!

Metro is accepting applications for its Community Placemaking grants program for 2019.

Strong applications propose projects that involve community partnerships, strengthen social ties to one another and the places where we live, work and play, support leadership roles for people of color and use art as a tool for engagement and change.

Up to $160,000 is available for the 2019 cycle, in grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000.

Groups throughout greater Portland are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by noon on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019.

How to apply?

Find more details about the grant application on the 2019 grant cycle page. Go

Learn more

Visit the Community Placemaking grant program page for more details.

Visit our Community Placemaking 2017 grantees and 2018 grantees pages.

Metro’s investments, such as these placemaking grants, are strategically focused to help local communities create or sustain the vibrant places envisioned in the Region’s 2040 Growth Concept.

The work of the Community Placemaking grant recipients aligns with Metro's strategic plan to advance racial equity, diversity and inclusion.

Read the strategic plan:

Strategic plan to advance racial equity, diversity and inclusion

4.99 MB Adobe Acrobat PDF Published Jun 13, 2016