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P or tland Ins titute f or Contem por ar y Ar t (PIC A)

www .pica.or g

Supporting PICA

When you donate to PICA you are supporting our MANY programs and projects, along
with our ticket bank campaign, our artist residency program (Creative Exchange Lab) and

our ability to offer free and discounted use of our building through the SPACE program.

Ticket Bank

PICA’s Ticket Bank is a fund where we offer deeply discounted or free tickets to audience
members to help make contemporary art more accessible to wider audiences. In the last
year, we provided nearly 1,150 tickets on a sliding scale to community members. PICA
Is only able to offer sliding scale tickets because of community member donations made

directly to PICA’s Ticket Bank.

Creative Exchange Lab

PICA’s bi-annual artist residency, Creative Exchange Lab (CXL), was founded in 2015.
CXL was designed to acknowledge and advance the relationship between contempo-
rary performance and visual art fields and to foster in-depth, cross-disciplinary research
and opportunities for exchange among artists. Since the start of the Creative Exchange

Lab, 95 artists have participated in the program. For over ten years, the Lab has been a
profound way for PICA to show support and care for local, national, and international
artists.

SPACE Program (Supporting Partners, Artists, & Community Events)

Amidst a crisis of affordable and accessible art space, we launched the SPACE program
as a means of exercising our responsibility to share our institutional resources, facilities,

and capacity for artistic and community-led programs and events. Since November 2017,
we have partnered with numerous artists, organizations, and community members span-
ning the fields of art, culture, urban planning, social justice, youth advocacy, and more.

In the last year, we provided free or discounted space to Black Arts Ecology of Portland
(BAEP), Elbow Room, Friends of Noise, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE),
Makrokosmos Project, Red Door Project, and Shaun Keylock Company. Our building
will conituously serve artists and small groups for creative residencies, pilot projects, and
mutual aid. The past few years have revealed the urgent — and continuing — need for an
accessible space for artists to work and gather.

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