On March 18, 2025, local nonprofit Friends of IFCC announced a new round of awards for 23 Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) artists. As part of the IFCC Artist & Residency Program, awardees will enliven and activate the historic cultural center—which includes a 99-seat theater, dance studio, gallery, and office—in North Portland.
Open to artists of any discipline, the program’s grantees create their works through a variety of mediums including dance, multimedia, multidisciplinary performance, music, spoken word, theater, and visual arts.
Out of 182 applicants, this latest round of 23 IFCC artists selected includes:
- Ambush
- Bobby Fouther
- Brendan Deiz
- Bridgette Hickey
- Calvin Walker
- Charlie Brown III
- Courtenay Collins
- Damaris Webb
- Danielle Barker
- Delphon Curtis Jr.
- Domo Branch
- Elijah Hasan
- Farnell Newton
- Given Davis
- Jacque Hammond
- Jocelyn Rice
- Katherine Mercado
- King Tokoli
- Lo Steele
- Licity Collins
- Marcel Johansen
- Richard Brown
- Valerie Peterson
Friends of IFCC is one of three Office of Arts & Culture Small Grant Program partners (along with MusicOregon and Regional Arts & Culture Council). Arts & Culture provides Friends of IFCC with $100,000 to be administered for the IFCC Artist Grant & Residency Program, which is a unique public-private partnership led by the nonprofit in collaboration with Portland Parks & Recreation. Those funds are used to grant the Portland-based artists selected for the program with up to $5,000 each. Friends of IFCC gets additional philanthropic support from the 1803 Fund and other partners, which covers grant awards beyond Arts & Culture’s per artist cap up to $12,000 for each recipient.
For the latest news and information about IFCC artists and the events they’ll host throughout 2025, sign up to receive Friends of IFCC’s newsletter near the bottom of their homepage.