Port Townsend Art Commission Fund for Public Art

The arts are central to the people and spirit of Port Townsend. They are quite simply what define us as a community. The arts are an essential ingredient in guaranteeing our quality of life and ensuring the city remains a vibrant and engaging place to work, live and play.

The Port Townsend Arts Commission appreciates the arts as a core civic value as well as an economic development strategy. The arts are a communal investment in the cultural fabric that links both economic vitality and civic ideology.

The City of Port Townsend "allocates 1% of the capitalized costs of eligible public construction projects for the creation or placement of artwork or works as part of the construction project." The Port Townsend Arts Commission aspires to augment this allocation through its partnership with the Jefferson County Community Foundation and gifts to the PTAC Fund for Public Art.

Currently, the City of Port Townsend has several public capital projects with related art works in process or in the planning phases. The public art piece for the maritime entrance to the city on Water Street has been selected and will be installed in the Fall 2010. The search for an art piece to enhance the upper Sims Way entrance to the city will begin once we have secured charitable funding.

Through your tax-deductible donation to the Jefferson County Community Foundation and the PTAC Fund for Public Art you can help make public art projects like these--as well as future public art works--a community visible asset.

Take advantage of this opportunity for individual donors to support Port Townsend's creative economy - what a way to honor the many past and present artists and visionaries who shape the Port Townsend arts scene. Let's realize our dream of Port Townsend being a destination city for the arts. You can lend a hand to realize that dream by sending your tax deductible contribution to:

JCCF - PTAC Fund for Public Art
PO Box 1955
Port Townsend, WA 98368.

Congratulations to the
2010 Angel of the Arts

Andy Mackie

and 2010 Patron of the Arts

Ling-hui

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The Arts Commission promotes and encourages public programs to further the development and public awareness of and interest in the arts, and to act in an advisory capacity to the city government in connection with the artistic and cultural development of Port Townsend.

Port Townsend Art Commission Fund for Public Art

JCCF - PTAC Fund for Public Art PO Box 1955 Port Townsend, WA 98368.

Congratulations to the 2010 Angel of the Arts Andy Mackie

and 2010 Patron of the Arts Ling-hui

JCCF - PTAC Fund for Public Art
PO Box 1955
Port Townsend, WA 98368.

Congratulations to the
2010 Angel of the Arts

Andy Mackie

and 2010 Patron of the Arts

Ling-hui