Connections Campaign

FAIN: CHA-268800-20

Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR 97205-2430)
Brian Ferriso (Project Director: May 2019 to April 2020)
Karie Burch (Project Director: April 2020 to present)

Construction of a pavilion to connect the museum’s primary buildings, providing expanded and enhanced art and public spaces, increasing accessibility, and furthering physical and intellectual connections between the collections and programs.

The Portland Art Museum seeks challenge grant support in the amount of $750,000 from the NEH for the Connections Campaign, designed to connect building to building, the Museum to the community, and Oregonians to art and each other. The project will connect the Museum’s primary buildings by constructing the Mark Rothko Pavilion. The pavilion will provide expanded and enhanced art and public spaces, while increasing accessibility, adding elevators, restrooms, and furthering the physical and intellectual connections between the Museum’s collections and programs. A community commons will become one of Oregon’s grand free public spaces. Through the challenge grant, the Museum would raise $3 million over the four-year grant period, with funds coming from individual donors and foundations. The Museum has raised $35.7 million in early gifts of confidence out of the construction project’s estimated $75 million goal.