Here’s a chance for a Regional Arts & Culture Council grant, so you can put something cool in the Portland Building—where your work will be seen by the likes of the city’s Office of Cable Communications and Management staffers! And Bureau of Environmental Services, Water Bureau, and Transportation Bureau workers! Plus regular folks like you and me heading to a public hearing or paying a visit to the Parks & Rec Department.

Seriously, though, I bet you can come up with something better than that Portlandia statue adorning the front of the building (that thing kinda scares me)… make this building worth going into!

RACC invites artist/teams living in Oregon or Washington to submit proposals for temporary installations in a designated space located in the lobby of the Portland Building at 1120 SW 5th Avenue. Up to five professional artists/teams will be selected for one-month installations between July 2007 and June 2008. Artists selected will receive a $750 honorarium. Deadline: 3/26/07. The RFP can be found on the RACC homepage (www.racc.org), and even more directly here.

Jeff Hawthorne at RACC says “we’re always looking for MORE new talent and fresh artistic ideas.” You heard the man. Apply yourself.