PRESS RELEASE - Arts Commission Announces Final Art Project Grants for 2025

Nine grants were awarded to arts organizations and individual artists in Jefferson County.

PORT TOWNSEND – In its final grant round of the year, the Port Townsend Arts Commission 
(PTAC) has awarded $9,900 to nine creative projects by Jefferson County artists and 
organizations. Funded projects include:

• Songwriting Works’ Intergenerational Community Music Teams 
• Mythsinger Legacy Project’s Myth and Memory within Community – Creation Stories for 
the New Year
• KPTZ Radio’s Studio Performance Space Initiative 
• Holiday Fun with PT Artscape 
• PT STEM Club’s Mini Maker Fair 
• Jefferson County Historical Society’s Holiday Extravaganza 
• Bobby4Bobby’s The Harvest – A Celebration of Jefferson County Queer Art 
• Key City Public Theatre’s American Sign Language (ASL) Initiative
• 7th Annual Winter Solstice Show at Quilcene Theater

PTAC provides grants to projects that enhance the experience of residents and visitors through 
accessible, public-facing activities, and that demonstrate artistic merit. Its funding program has 
been supporting arts and civic engagement through creativity since 2001, and PTAC is the only 
public funding source for individual artists in Jefferson County. This year, more than thirty
artists from across the community submitted requests for funding that represented a wide 
range of disciplines. Nineteen received funding between $450 and $2,700. 

In earlier rounds of funding totaling an additional $17,100 in grants PTAC awarded projects 
included Port Townsend Youth Theater Company’s production of The Hobbit, Eden Bloom’s 
Curating Empathy Exhibit: Photovoice with Unhoused Neighbors of Port Townsend, Timothy 
O’Connell III’s exhibition I Was Far Away But Now I’m Here: A Journey Through Art and Identity 
at the Jefferson County Museum of Art and History, a senior project mural by Port Townsend 
High School students led by Nick Mann, Port Townsend Pride, Dear Town: A Town-Wide Poetic 
Letter by Lindsey Wayland, a youth-created mural in The Nest coffee shop, a community block 
printing event from the Port Townsend Marine Science Center, the Salish Sea International, Butoh Festival, 

and a concert of Handel’s Messiah from Community Chorus of Port Townsend and Rainshadow Chorale. 

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to support these enriching projects from local artists 
of all kinds,” says Katy Goodman, the City’s Arts & Culture Coordinator and PTAC’s staff liaison.
“Not only do they make Port Townsend and East Jefferson County a more interesting and 
vibrant place to live, they are also a fundamental part of who we are as a community – creative, 
innovative, collaborative, and engaged. The arts are essential to all communities, and especially 
to ours.”

Currently, PTAC offers three rounds of funding annually for projects that occur within the same 
calendar year with the last round for 2025 closing on August 20. If artists and arts organizations
are interested in learning more or applying for a grant in 2026, updates will be available on the 
PTAC webpage.

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Learn more about this grant program and PTAC’s other programs, including the Port Townsend 
Poet Laureate Program, Public Art, and the City Arts Awards at http://cityofpt.us/bc/page/arts-commission-0