You may have noticed PORT's many new sponsors over the past 6 months and it's time to point them out if you haven't. Our sponsors are important part of what we do, making informed art writing like this, this and this possible as well as our constant stream of news, openings and other events. Portland is a busy art city, that has only gotten busier and more serious in just the last 6 months, even our list of new sponsors tells that story.

Portland Art Focus is a coalition of for profit and non profit art exhibitors (PAM, PADA, Reed, MoCC, PICA, OCAC, Lewis and Clark, PNCA etc.) dedicated to increasing Portland's profile as visual art destination on the international stage. You'll be seeing ads in the New Yorker and Art in America shortly and you might have already seen ads in Art Ltd. Also, important is PAF's connection to Travel Portland bringing package deals to The Rose City. Cultural tourism is a major and growing industry for Portland (and a little known fact, Portland's weather is incredibly nice from mid May-mid October).

Art Media and Utrecht are two of the most popular art supply stores in Portland (a city full of artists) and we are proud to have both of them on board as sponsors as well. Not just businesses, they are often where artists neighborly run into eachother.

Thanks to all of our sponors, you make PORT possible... check them out at the right of the screen.