[OMS_MANAGERS] Updates

Thu Jul 12 12:00:07 PDT 2012

In this Email:

1. Making Your Store Main Street Stores Pop! Workshop next week -
registration still open!

2. Congratulations to Main Street Oregon City on receiving a $100,000
NEA Our Town Grant
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1. MAKING YOUR MAIN STREET STORES POP!

Join us for our Summer Oregon Main Street Workshop - Making Your Main
Street Stores Pop! - on Wednesday, July 18, 8 am to noon, Port Orford
Library, Port Orford. Please feel free to distribute this email to your
downtown business owners, fellow community organizations, or others you
think might be interested.
This is an interactive workshop for both small and large store owners.
It is a combination of a 1.5 hour visual merchandising and store design
presentation with approximately 2 hours "hands on" small group exercise
to design a store. This is a powerful, fun, challenging, and exciting
workshop! 
Click on the link below to register for the workshop:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3663266930
This free workshop will cover:
Introduction to Store Design 
Emotional & Sensory Merchandising & the Basics of Store Design 
Small Group Exercise: Creating a Store Design

Speaker Info: Linda Cahan has been in Visual Merchandising, Store
Design, and Display since 1971. She is an internationally recognized
expert in visual merchandising with extensive marketplace experience.
Linda’s breadth of experience has included all segments of retail
including: fashion, technology, tools, gifts, accessories, furniture,
independents, and corporations. Cahan & Company focuses on delivering
solutions aided by smart and appropriate Visual Merchandising, training
staff and VM teams, and working with independent, regional, and national
retailers on enhancing and improving their images and sales.

As a seminar leader, Linda speaks on a wide variety of retail topics
nationally and internationally and is a member of the National Speakers
Association. Her seminars are consistently rated in the “above average”
and “excellent” category by attendees at conferences and trade shows.
Linda writes for several B-to-B retail magazines. She has authored: “100
Displays Under $100”, “Feng Shui for Retailers”, “A Practical Guide to
Visual Merchandising,” as well as seven custom corporate visual
standards manuals for major corporations in the USA and South America.
Currently Linda’s expertise is shared part-time with students at The Art
Institute of Portland, OR. Formerly, she taught at Parsons School of
Design in NYC for 12 years. To learn more about Linda, see:

http://lindacahan.com/

Lodging Information: Let them know you are in town for the Oregon Main
Street Workshop!

Motels: Castaway Motel by the Sea, 541.332.4502 and Sea Crest Motel,
541.332.3040

Historic house vacation rentals in town: Joan of Arc (House and two
cottages), 541.332.0516  and Powder House, 541.332.5039
Bed & Breakfast: Compass Rose, 541.332.7076
Most of these have websites - see
http://www.enjoyportorford.com/lodging.html- for additional
info._________________________________________

2. National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2012 Our Town Grant
Recipients
Downtown Oregon City project one of 80 grantees selected nationwide.

Oregon City, OR -- The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced
today 80 Our Town grant awards totaling $4.995 million.  The non-profit
Main Street Oregon City in partnership with the City of Oregon City is
one of the grantees and will receive a $100,000 grant to create a
permanent art exhibit using light as the medium to wash projected color,
pattern and images over the iconic Municipal Elevator. This grant for
downtown Oregon City’s Municipal Elevator is one of only four awarded in
the state.

Through Our Town grants, the NEA supports creative placemaking projects
that help transform communities into lively, beautiful, and sustainable
places with the arts at their core. Funded projects will improve quality
of life, encourage creative activity, create community identity and a
sense of place, and help revitalize local economies.  All Our Town grant
awards were made to partnerships that consisted of a not-for-profit
organization and a local government entity.

The $240,000 project in Downtown Oregon City – called Illuminate Oregon
City - is a collaboration between the non-profit Main Street Oregon
City, the City of Oregon City, The Clackamas Country Arts Alliance,
PSU’s Architecture Department, and Metro’s Development Center. 

Throughout its history downtown Oregon City has shone brilliantly as a
beacon of innovation, a nexus for migration, commerce, industry and
entrepreneurism. Today downtown Oregon City is home to Willamette Falls,
a potential National Heritage Area site shared with the rest of the
country, and to the historic Arch Bridge – a uniquely west coast
structure - shared with West Linn. The Municipal Elevator is a purely
Oregon City icon and an ideal focal point for gathering, reflecting and
illuminating the identity of this community.

"Cities and towns are transformed when you bring the arts – both
literally and figuratively – into the center of them,” said NEA Chairman
Landesman. "From Teller, Alaska to Miami, Florida, communities are
pursuing creative placemaking, making their neighborhoods more vibrant
and robust by investing in the performing, visual, and literary arts. I
am proud to be partnering with these 80 communities and their respective
arts, civic, and elected leaders."

The NEA received 317 applications for Our Town grant funding. For the
downtown Oregon City art project, Federal funds will be matched dollar
for dollar and will include preparing the Municipal Elevator for use as
a focal point of this art commission. A national search for an artist
skilled in public outreach and light as a creative medium will begin
later this year.

“This community building initiative has at its base a great
collaboration that is a foundation for a brilliant project,” said Lloyd
Purdy, Director of the non-profit Main Street Oregon City. “The addition
of Federal funds from the NEA will make this icon shine, and help focus
the spirit and identity of this community on an iconic landmark and
focal point.”

According to the NEA, with only 80 grants emerging from the 317
applications -a success rate of 25 percent - competition was strong, a
testament to the artistic excellence and merit of the downtown Oregon
City project.

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Sheri Stuart, Coordinator
Oregon Main Street
725 Summer St., Suite C
Salem, OR  97301
503.986.0679
www.oregonheritage.org ( http://www.oregonheritage.org/ )

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