November Dinner & Award

Stock continues to grow...

The November event was attended by 100 people.
We had 10 proposals to discuss.
The award went to Public Social University in the amount of $540!

Thanks to PNCA for the great location.

November Call for Proposals

We are excited to announce a call for submissions to November's art granting dinner event.
Please use the questions below to describe the art project that you would like funds for.
The first 10 proposals that fit the criteria will be artfully turned into 11x17 posters and displayed at Stock's November dinner.
Dinner attendees will democratically award this grant by voting for their favorite proposal.
If funded, you will be responsible for making a presentation to the Stock community regarding your progress on this project at the next Stock dinner (approximately 4-6 weeks after November's dinner).
This grant funds Portland-based artists. If you have a question about whether this includes you, please contact us.

PROPOSAL
1. Project Summary: (100 words)

2. How will you use the funding toward the realization of your project? (50 words)

3. How will it manifest at the next Stock event? (100 words):

4. Why is this project important? (100 words)

IMAGES
>Submit 4 digital images (3X5"max size) relating to your project or past projects in order to better illustrate your words above. (examples: sketches for project proposal, maps, diagrams, or other related imagery)
Each image should be numbered.
Also- attach a corresponding numbered list of one sentence descriptions for each image.

DEADLINE
submit your proposal by November 15th at 5:00pm to be considered for this month's granting session.

SUBMIT
to submit a proposal (or ask questions) email: portlandstock at gmail dot com

Nurturing Creativity: An Artist’s Practice

Here's a great example of Stock bringing together artists in the Portland area!

August's grantee The Portland Healing Project is facilitating a talk with artist Beth Lorio at
Sea Change Gallery
625 NW Everett Street Gallery, #110
Saturday, November 7
from 2-4 pm.

All of the involved, venue, presenter and sponsor met at a Stock event. Both Beth and Sea Change's co-founder, Katherine, are former Stock applicants, and Portland Healing Project was August's grant winner.

So mark your calendar for Nurturing Creativity. The workshop will center on how restoration is part of the creative process. Portland Healing Project has a great interview with Beth along with more details on the event on their website http://portlandhealingproject.com.

Stock gets some ink

Lisa Radon profiled us in this month's Portland Monthly Magazine.

We have a winner!

October Stock Results:

-6 Project proposals
-Over 80 people in attendance
-Our first presentation of a project funded by Stock thanks to The Portland Healing Project
-An award of $525 to our winning proposal for the Living Room Lecture Series by Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen

October Proposals

RSVP for STOCK October 18th

The last artists to receive a grant from Stock, Mariah Maines and Jess Hirsch, took home $500 in cash at the end of the evening. They'll be presenting on what they did with the money this Sunday.

In addition to the presentation, we will have six proposals vying to win October's pot of gold from the following artists:

• Tesar Freeman & Claire LaMont


• Sandy Sampson


• Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen


• Forrest Martin


• Jamie Marie Waelchli


• Abra Ancliffe

We'll also be unveiling our new two-round (aka runoff) voting system.

Will you vote to fund start-up costs for a magazine, help an artist purchase supplies for a large-scale installation, support a stay-at-home lecture series, buy books for a specially curated library, pay artist fees for a talented-yet-unrecognized artist or assist in a campaign to remove a plaque from the park blocks?

RSVP to portlandstock at gmail dot com

When and where?
Sunday, October 18, 6-8 PM (do rsvp. dinner is first come first serve)
Gallery Homeland, SE 11th and Division