PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Arts Commission has awarded $9,900 to nine artists and arts organizations in its final round of funding for 2025.
The commission provides grants to projects that enhance the experience of residents and visitors through accessible, public-facing activities that demonstrate artistic merit.
This year, more than 30 artists from across the community representing a wide range of disciplines submitted funding requests. Of those requests, the commission awarded a total of 19 grants totalling $27,000.
“We are pleased to have the opportunity to support these enriching projects from local artists of all kinds,” said Katy Goodman, the city’s arts and culture coordinator. “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.”
Grants from this round funded:
• 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
• Seventh annual Winter Solstice Show at Quilcene Theater
For more information, visit https://cityofpt.us/bc/page/arts-commission-0.
