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Oregon arts groups face crisis as NEA pulls funding amid broader financial struggles
Oregon arts groups face crisis as NEA pulls funding amid broader financial struggles
Oregon arts groups face crisis as NEA pulls funding amid broader financial struggles

Published on: 05/09/2025

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From left, Xzavier Beacham, Bobby Bermea, Lester Purry, Ramona Lisa Alexander, Tessa May, and Ellis-Blake Hale in

“It’s been the most tumultuous week ever,” Brian Weaver said recently, days after being notified that the National Endowment for the Arts was withdrawing a $25,000 grant intended to support the Portland Playhouse production of August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s series of works that explore Black life in America.

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