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A nnu al Report
Annual Report
2009–
–2010
“Caldera
allowed
me to think
differently
and not
be afraid
to express
myself.”
—Chantilly
(Camp Name: Dreamer)
Caldera’s annual report 2009 – 2010
mission
Caldera’s
mission is to be
a catalyst for
transformation
through
innovative
art and
environmental
programs.
Caldera’s youth program provides underserved
Oregon children with year-round, long-term
mentoring through arts and nature projects,
beginning at age 11 and continuing through
young adulthood.
Caldera’s adult program offers monthlong
residencies to professional artists, providing the
gift of time and creative workspace at our Arts
Center in the Oregon Cascade Mountains.
Linking Caldera’s youth and adult programs is a
passionate belief in the power of creativity.
Caldera’s programs currently take place in schools
and communities in Portland, Bend, Redmond,
Terrebonne, Madras and Sisters, and at our Arts
Center located on 120 acres of mountain and
forest land at the edge of a volcanic lake west of
Sisters, Oregon.
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Arts Center
31500 Blue Lake Drive
Sisters, Oregon 97759
(541) 595-0956
Portland Office
216 NW 13th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
(503) 937-7594
Mailing Address
224 NW 13th Avenue, Box 304
Portland, Oregon 97209
CalderaArts.org
Caldera@CalderaArts.org
Follow Caldera on Facebook:
facebook.com/CalderaArts.org
Follow us on Twitter: @CalderaArts
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As one of our students put it, Caldera’s art
programs are “cool weird”—as opposed to
the “dangerous weird” of gangs, drugs, early
pregnancies or dropping out.
Of Caldera 12th graders, 87% graduate or
attain their high school equivalency diplomas.
That’s focus! That’s cool weird!
Tea. Shoes. Jewelry. Recycled
fashion. Photographic self-portraits.
Films (documentaries, public service
announcements, creative shorts, personal life
stories). Advertising campaigns. Magazines.
Logos. T-shirts. Billboards. Electronics.
Interpretive plans for conservation areas.
What do they all have in common? Caldera
kids designed them in 2009 and 2010.
And while they designed all these “things,”
they were also designing their own lives.
Caldera kids set new goals for themselves,
solved problems, built strong, positive
relationships and envisioned life paths that,
before their engagement with the Caldera
community, might have seemed out of reach.
This is the essence of Caldera: a focus on art
is a way to focus on yourself, your life, your
community and the world’s future.
CALDERA KIDS ARE
TRANSFORMING
THEIR OWN LIVES
AND DESIGNING
NEW WORLDS FOR
ALL OF US.
I am in awe of their incredible spirit and
creativity. Read on to find it throughout this
report.
Tricia Snell
Caldera Executive Director
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caldera’s
Youth Program
youth program
Since 1997, Caldera has
provided year-round, longterm, standards-based arts
education and mentoring to
over 1,600 underserved Oregon
youths. We offer direct,
intense, consistent (weekly),
continuous (we stick with each
of our students from age 11
through their early adulthood)
support to youths who are
struggling with a variety of
problems.
We provide direct service to 175 middle
school and 191 high school students from
a diversity of backgrounds in urban and
rural Oregon. To identify students who can
best benefit from our programs, we partner
with five Portland middle schools (H.B.
Lee, Jason Lee, Open Meadow, Peninsula
and SEI Academy) and six rural Oregon
middle schools (Sisters, Elton Gregory,
Jefferson County, Obsidian, Pilot Butte and
Terrebonne), all with significant populations
of underserved students. What links our
students is poverty; 80% of our students
are on free or reduced lunch programs and
live in households supporting an average
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of five people on less than $35,000 a
year. And along with poverty comes a host
of problems. Our students struggle with
family breakdown, violence and substance
abuse; gang violence; and a general lack
of resources, encouragement and positive
adult role models. And while we do not
select students based on ethnicity, our
students, in 2009 and 2010, identify as
43% African American, 34% White/NonHispanic, 12% Latino/Hispanic, 7% Asian/
Pacific Islander, 2% Native American/Pacific
Islander and 2% Slavic.
Caldera employs paid mentors who meet
our middle schoolers weekly during the
year, for eight days during summer camp
and at other program events throughout the
year. When our students reach high school,
mentors design monthly weekend leadership
retreats in their communities, as well as field
trips and a 10-day summer camp session.
Specific youth program activities include
weekly art/mentoring classes, weeklong
artists’ residencies at the children’s schools,
weekend leadership workshops with
professional artists, a variety of special
community and creative-industry projects,
and a life-changing summer arts and nature
camp at our Arts Center in Central Oregon.
Our students receive about 200 hours of
concentrated, consistent support over a
year’s time, for the seven+ years they are in
the program.
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We provide education in a variety of art
disciplines: painting, drawing, fiber arts,
design, photography, filmmaking, writing,
spoken word, hip-hop dance, traditional
West African drumming and sound
production. Our program activities are
research based and age appropriate, utilizing
Positive Youth Development (PYD) principles.
To be specific, Caldera:
• Emphasizes youths’ strengths rather than
weaknesses.
• Offers a variety of opportunities to learn
and practice good behaviors.
• Provides consistent, long-term
relationships with caring adults.
• Promotes positive peer relationships.
• Provides real opportunities for youths to
be leaders in their communities.
youth program
Caldera passionately believes that investing in
the children of today will make for a better world
tomorrow. We believe that art, nature and a supportive
community empower children who face serious
obstacles. A vital sign of our success is that, in 2009
and 2010, 100% of Caldera 8th graders transitioned
successfully to 9th grade, which is a fragile time for
many children who may otherwise drop out during
this time. In addition, 87% of Caldera 12th graders
graduated or attained their high school equivalency
diplomas. Finally, we are delighted to report that many
Caldera students are going on to colleges, skills
trainings, careers and, perhaps most importantly,
dedicating their lives to helping others, with many
volunteering at Caldera to ensure other youths have
the same experience they had.
Abbott-Carlson Scholarship Fund
“It is my belief that education is a
legacy that can be passed on through
future generations.”
—Linda Carlson Hart
Abbott-Carlson Scholarships are available for all
Caldera students who have completed high school
and plan on attending college or trade school.
Applicants are awarded scholarships based solely on
intent—it is not a competitive process. Scholarships
are based on need, and funds may be used only for
tuition, books, lab fees or expenses directly related to
post-secondary education.
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“If I had never
heard of Caldera,
I would most
likely not be in
school; I would
not have the
self-esteem to
push myself
toward the things
I am working for.”
—Chantilly
(Camp Name: Dreamer)
youth program
2009–
–2010
caldera
thematic
focus
art +
design
Every year, Caldera
chooses a thematic focus
to channel our creative
energies. For 2009 and
2010, we completed a
two-year focus on Art
+ Design, examining
the way art is used in
designing a wide variety
of items, organizations
and places.
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After camp, students continued their
Our students learned the basic principles of
design focus throughout the school year,
design; developed technical design skills in
with weekly mentoring, weeklong artists’
storyboarding, writing, performing, graphics,
photography and film; and then applied what residencies and weekend leadership retreats
with special workshops. For instance,
they learned in real projects. During these
students worked with designers from
two years we utilized our creative-industry
Nike, Ziba Design and Wieden+Kennedy,
partners* to offer our students opportunities
utilizing state-of-the-art graphic and digital
to engage with professionals on real-world
technology to create magazine layouts,
assignments. In curriculum designed by
documentaries and fashion. The following
Caldera education staff and workshops
pages include examples of the innovative
led by innovative professionals, students
projects our students worked on in 2009
explored social, cultural and historical
and 2010.
contexts of design and conducted design
projects ranging from billboards, public
*Our creative-industry partners are
service announcements (PSAs), fashion,
organizations and professionals working in
electronics, shoes and tea, to full-scale ad
advertising, architecture, film, design and
campaigns and interpretive designs for a
other artistic areas. Caldera is proud to work
conservation area.
with Wieden+Kennedy, Ziba Design, Nike,
At our annual summer camps, students
Allied Works Architecture, tbd agency and
worked on advertising and marketing plans
LAIKA/house.
for Caldera itself. They thought about their
experiences with Caldera and came up
with the symbol of the tree as evocative
of the interdependent community Caldera
is, with its nurturing, growing, live essence.
Students explored how trees and people
are interdependent; studied the ecology
of trees with naturalists and extended the
metaphor of the tree throughout their writing,
photography and filmmaking, and also
created tree logo T-shirts for all students to
wear at the following year’s camp.
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In the fall of 2009, students participated
in Create! Don’t Hate, a Design Ignites
Change youth mentoring initiative. This sixweek program was built around the theme
of tolerance and empowered underserved
youths to use design to communicate ideas
and impact change in their communities.
Students worked with Michael Etter of Ziba
Design and re:active to create powerful
billboards that addressed tolerance in a
variety of ways. In March 2010, an exhibition
of designs was hosted at Pushdot Studio
in Portland, and several billboards were
installed in Portland (see photos).
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–2010
caldera
thematic
focus
Caldera’s annual report 2009 – 2010
art +
design
The Invisibility Project is an education
curriculum designed by Teafly Peterson
and other Caldera staff to teach tolerance.
Students were asked to think of a time they
felt ignored as well as a time they ignored
or disempowered someone else. Students
created work to represent these times using
art and prose. In March 2010, Caldera
hosted an exhibition at the Pinckney Gallery
at Central Oregon Community College in
Bend, Oregon, showcasing their work.
Thanks to the support of Mt. Hood Cable
Regulatory Commission, Caldera was able
to purchase state-of-the-art film equipment
for students to use. The equipment has
allowed Caldera students to dramatically
broaden their skills, preparing them for
possible careers in creative technology and
allowing a greater breadth of creativity in
their films. In 2010, students also participated
in the Commission’s YourVo!ce initiative.
Over an eight-month period, students
created a half-hour documentary about how
Portland communities use communications
technology. Middle school and high school
students learned how to write and assemble
a creative, cohesive story based on the focus
of the initiative and their own ideas. Working
with Caldera’s filmmaking mentors, students
outlined, wrote, shot, acted in, created
animation and graphics for, and edited the
documentary.
youth program
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In March 2010, high school students from
Central Oregon and Portland had the
opportunity to work with Steven Smith,
teamaker, and Steve Sandstrom, brand
designer, to design their own unique blend
of tea. Students worked hands-on at Smith’s
facilities in Portland to create personally
produced, small-batch tea while learning
about the creative process from beginning to
end. Following a secret taste test, students
chose a final blend as their favorite, which
was then re-created for a 100-box series of
Caldera Chai and sold at Paul Schneider
and Lauren Eulau’s fine arts and crafts store,
TWISTonline.com, with proceeds going to
Caldera.
2009–
–2010
caldera
thematic
focus
art +
design
Artist Bunky Echo-Hawk (founder of
NVision, a collective of Native American
artists and activists) worked with students to
design self-portraits of what they envisioned
as their future selves.
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Wieden+Kennedy creative director
Tyler Whisnand guided students through
an innovative branding and marketing
exercise. They created a hybrid business,
designed a logo, created a tagline and filmed
a commercial for the business.
youth program
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A group of high school students participated
in a series of workshops with D’Wayne
Edwards, Nike’s Brand Jordan design
director, to learn the ins and outs of shoe
design. At the beginning of the workshop,
D’Wayne shared his own personal story
of transformation and talked of the power
of applying your passions to real-life
projects. D’Wayne’s workshops focused on
overcoming barriers, goal setting, design
philosophy and implementation. After the
workshop, D’Wayne offered a scholarship to
a Caldera student, Sade Beasley, to attend
his design camp, mesh01.com, which she
completed in spring 2010.
2009–
–2010
caldera
thematic
focus
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Students worked with filmmaker Libby
Spears and Caldera film mentor Billy
Miller to edit a segment of America’s Most
Wanted that focused on the issue of child
trafficking, as well as Libby’s documentary
Playground.
Students had the chance to meet Dave Dahl
from Dave’s Killer Bread. Dave presented
his story of transformation from a life of crime
and prison to reconciling with his family and
creating his own line of bread using local and
organic products. Beginning as a booth at
the Portland Saturday Market, Dave’s Killer
Bread has blossomed into a very successful
business. Dave told the students, “If I can do
it, so can you.”
art +
design
Artist Denise Rowcroft worked with
students to create jewelry (bracelets,
necklaces and earrings) and sculptures out
of found objects—items that would normally
be thrown away. Students learned various
metal-working techniques. They also learned
to safely scavenge for found objects and use
a variety of tools.
youth program
2009–
–2010
caldera
thematic
focus
art +
design
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Students worked with Caldera staff to study
the work of Shepard Fairey, most recently
known for his iconic 2008 Obama poster.
Students posed for a photograph and used
the photograph to create the main aspect
of their self-portrait. They chose one word
to describe themselves, incorporating it
into their portraits, and then chose colors to
complete the design. Some students took
the extra challenge of limiting themselves
to two colors, mimicking the work of early
printers and designers.
youth program
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–2010
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Building upon our relationship with the
National Forest Service, students gathered
on the banks of the Metolius River in
October 2010. The Forest Service worked
with students on designing and creating an
installation to help users enjoy the space.
Students took pictures, wrote poems and
collected their thoughts on how the river
made them feel. They provided their ideas in
a booklet to the forest rangers. The Forest
Service is now using this booklet in their
fund-raising efforts to build the visitor center
implementing student ideas.
caldera
thematic
focus
art +
design
finances
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2009 financials
2009 revenue
$384,316 individuals
$409,219 foundations
$194,803 government
$55,954 corporations
$63,234 in-kind contributions
$37,922 special events (net)
$50,423 program fees
$25,173 interest and dividends
$118,139 net appreciation in fmv
$1,584 other
2009 expense
Cash and Investments
Grants and Contributions Receivable
Investments
Capital Assets
$597,363
$91,100
$940,180
$11,760,151
Other Assets
$67,926
Total Assets
$13,456,720
Payables
Notes Payable
Total Liabilities
Public and Private Support
In-Kind Income
$63,234
Special Events Revenue (Net)
$37,922
Program Fees
$50,423
Interest and Dividend Income
$25,173
Other
youth programs
$1,053,012
Program Service Expense
$1,130,682
$32,809
$32,809
Supporting Services Expense
$168,966 fund-raising
$342,595
Total Expenses
$1,473,277
Decrease in Operating Net Assets
($420,265)
Unrestricted Assets Available for
Programming and Operations
$316,240
Unrestricted Funds for Long-Term Investment
$972,597
Net Investments in Capital Assets
$11,818,151
Endowment Contribtions
Total Unrestricted Funds
$13,106,988
Increase in FMV
Temporarily Restricted Funds
$316,923
$332,451 adult programs
$173,629 administrative
$1,584
Total Operating Revenue
Capital Contributions
$798,231
$874,676
Permanently Restricted Funds
Total Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
$118,139
$4,101,712
Loss on Disposal of Assets
($60,490)
Impairment Loss
($57,850)
Total Non-Operating Activities
$4,101,511
$13,423,911 Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets
$3,681,246
-
$13,456,720
finances
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2010 financials
2010 revenue
$404,945 individuals
$534,234 foundations
$200,296 government
$45,660 corporations
$57,729 in-kind contributions
$121,082 special events (net)
$44,130 program fees
$12,068 interest and dividends
$100,331 net appreciation in fmv
$8,746 other
Cash and Investments
Grants and Contributions Receivable
Investments
Capital Assets
$1,051,132
$12,099,881
$70,012
Total Assets
$14,496,258
$181,045 fund-raising
In-Kind Income
Special Events Revenue (Net)
$1,188,061
$57,729
$121,082
Program Fees
$44,130
Interest and Dividend Income
$12,068
Other
$8,746
Total Operating Revenue
$1,431,816
$1,540,092
Payables
$174,042
$195,943
Program Service Expense
Total Liabilities
$369,985
Supporting Services Expense
$373,585
Total Expenses
$1,913,677
Decrease in Operating Net Assets
($481,861)
Unrestricted Assets Available for
$296,644
$1,083,468
Net Investments in Capital Assets
$11,957,938
Endowment Contributions
$500,000
Total Unrestricted Funds
$13,338,050
Increase in FMV
$100,331
Capital Contributions
$634,944
Temporarily Restricted Funds
$288,223
Loss on Disposal of Assets
($14,994)
Impairment Loss
($36,058)
Permanently Restricted Funds
$500,000
Total Non-Operating Activities
$426,756 adult programs
$192,540 administrative
Public and Private Support
Notes Payable
Unrestricted Funds for Long-Term Investment
$1,113,336 youth programs
$248,950
Other Assets
Programming and Operations
2010 expense
$1,026,283
Total Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
$14,126,273 Increase/(Decrease) in Net Assets
$14,496,258
$1,184,223
$702,362
contributions
contributions
and
donors
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Caldera greatly
appreciates
your generous
contributions,
without which
our programs
and summer
camps would not
be possible.
contributions
$10,000+
$1,000–$4,999
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Bob and Carolyn Dietz
Kim and Dan Johnson
Anonymous
Sandy and Alexander Anderson
Liz Dolan
Timothy Kalberg
The Campbell Foundation
Anderson Krygier, Inc.
Don Draper
Lance and Carey Killian
Linda Carlson Hart
Anonymous
Durham and Bates
Cassie and David Kottkamp
Bill and Karen Davenport
Bank of the Cascades (Bend)
Dynamic Consulting
Bob and Deb Lane
Thomas Lauderdale
KeyBank
Scott Bedbury
Marilyn Easly
Starview Foundation
Beebe Skidmore Architects
John and Jane Emrick
Wes and Karen Lawrence
Dan Wieden
Priscilla M. Bernard
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Kathleen Lewis
Wieden Family Foundation
Fred and Tina Blank
Faerie Godmother and Friends
Richard M. Linn
Wieden+Kennedy
Alec Bromka
Chris Folkestad
Eric Lochner
Peter Bromka
Bob and Konky Forster
Mark Long
$5,000–$9,999
The following are
gifts received
January 1, 2009,
through December
31, 2010.
All gifts to Caldera
are greatly
appreciated. To make
a donation, visit
CalderaArts.org or
call (503) 937-7438.
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Henry Brown and Steve Bedford
Casey Family Fund of the Oregon Henry Brown Interiors
Community Foundation
Janna Brown
Lori and Les Cooper
Robin and Eric Busch
Mark and Ann Edlen
Duncan and Cindy Campbell
Diana Gerding
Judy Campbell
Susan H. Hoffman and
Nancy Carlin and Craig Casey
Fred Trullinger
Greg and Adrienne Chaillé
John and Janet Jay
Timothy and Marianne Chapman
LAIKA/house
David Chen
Duane and Barbara McDougall
Brad Cloepfil
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Construction Management
Todd and Mariniah Prendergast
Services
Chris and Suze Riley
Steve and Jenny Crew
Howard and Manya Shapiro
Charles S. Crownover
Fund of the Oregon Community
Rod Crownover and Alicia Howard
Foundation
Mary Gallinger
Chris and Linda Loughran
Chris and Dot Galluzzo
David and Sherri Luhr
Kirsten and Thomas Giacomini
Kathleen MacNaughton
Lourri Hammack
Ken Mandelbaum
Tim and Caren Hardin
Thomas Manley
Dan and Bobby Heagerty
Mario’s
Margaret Heater
Sara Mason
Sandy Henderson
Julianna McClatchey
Diane and Wesley Hickey
Gary McGee & Company
Dave Hill and Judy Drake
Donald N. McGregor Foundation
John and Karen Hoke
Vikki Mee and Steve Cox
Sue and Mike Hollern
Lora and Jim Meyer
Eric and Keena Hormel
John and Geri Miner
Ginny and Mike Hughes
René Mitchell
Linda Hutchins
Modified Style
Samuel Jackson
Peter Moore
Judy Murphy
Albert Solheim
Kathy and Frank Deggendorfer
Nancy and John James
Gus Van Sant
Becky DelaCruz
Jim and Diane Jeddeloh
Rosalie Neilson
Jody and Jan Ward
Kaaren and Harry Demorest
Clark and Nola Jeli
Carl and Gwen Newport
Ward Family Fund of the Oregon
Community Foundation
The Gun and Tom Denhart
Family Fund
Alan and Marilynn Jensen
Charles and Debbie Newport
Job Lab, LLC
David and Jennifer Nolfi
Robert and Mary Anne Woodell
contributions
Mary and Wayne Normand
Ron Stefani
Joe and Nancy Hertzberg
Colleen Dougherty and Andrew
Wachs
David and Molly Hilts
Dylan Moxness
Karen Hinsdale
Sara and John Murphy
Pamela and Fritz Hummelt
NAU
Kathleen and James Stengel
Paul Barber
N. Robert and Barre Stoll
Emma Beckman
Maret Pajutee
Susan Stratton
Spencer and Jane Beebe
Kathleen Peek
Craig Stuvland
Pepsi-Cola of Bend
Charles J. and Caroline
Swindells Charitable Fund of the
Oregon Community Foundation
Perkins and Company
Scott H. Terrall
Greg Phillips
TWIST
¿Por Qué No?
Mary and Ken Unkeles
Portland Oregon Women’s Film
Festival
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
Procter & Gamble
Nicole Vogel
Michael Quinn
John and Ashley Weil
Gary and Susan Reynolds
Tyler Whisnand and Suki
Diamond
Susanne and Stanley Penkin
Samantha Richardson
Harriet and Jackson Riley
Sally Russell
Gregory Saliba
Steve and Kelly Sandstrom
Jason Saunders and
Stephanie Kelly
Paul Schneider and Lauren
Eulau
Bryan Wieden
Carolyn and Duke Wieden
Cassie Wieden
Dorothy Wieden
Sara Wiener and Joanne Richter
Dennis and Jean Wilde
Nancy Wilgenbusch
Vanessa Wilkins
Marsha Shenk
Homer Williams
Simon, Toney & Fischer
Fran Willis
John Smoot
Lawrence Wolfe
Tricia Snell and Dave Clingan
Dan Woodell
John and Judy Spezza
Bill and Julie Young
Paul and Sidney Spezza
Doug Stamm
Romy Mortensen
Lynne and Sage Dorsey
Danielle Nye
Amanda Stuermer
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$100–$999
Sarah Orleans
Gilbert Parker and Heather
Guthrie
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Beecher Carlson Insurance
Agency, LLC
Ali Draudt
Janice and Greg Druian
Paul and Mary Evers
David and Lisa Bermudez
Sara Fleming Merten
Bolt Fabric Boutique
Courtney Francis
Rod Bonacker
Noelle Fredland
Douglas Bouland
Cynthia Fuhrman
John and Maureen Bradley
Nels Gabbert
Brian and Barnes
Laura Garnier
Carrie Brillstein
Patricia and Jack Geringer
Steve Brooke
Mary Gibson
Tim and Monica Burdsall
Charlotte and Scott Gilbride
Claudia D. Burnett and Sam
Carnahan
Alex Gillet
Bruce Burns
Monika Gray
Courtney Campbell
Jenny and Tim Green
Capital Pacific Bank
Kenneth and Cindy Greger
D’Nita Carbone
Michaele Grina
Johanna Cena
Ed Grosswiler
Wallace and Judi Charman
Lorraine Guthrie and Erik Kiaer
Ryan and Amy Christensen
Diane Hall
David and Katherine Gold
Greg Close
Charles T. Halton
Pete and Katherine Cole
Juli and Ramsey Hamdan
Charlene Conley
Susan Hammer and Lee Kelly
Dannon Company
Linda and Jim Hansink
Mark Dewitt
Beth Harrington
The William Diebold and
Deborah Freedberg Fund
Heidi and Graham Hausler
Betty Digman
Joan Doherty
Gail Hayes Davis
Kirsten Heinz
Donna Huntsman
Craig Norman
Joshua Husbands
Northwest Film Center
In Both Ears
Whitney Nye
Erica Jayasuriya
Michael Olds and Gloria Borg
Olds
Blair and Steve Jenkins
Sabrina Jetton
Heather and Ross Johnson
Suzanne Johnson
Kathleen Julian
Ceseley Kathrens
Resa Kee and Mark Hopkins
Kirk Kelley
Terryl and H.M. Kemple
Diana Kim
Maureen and Kenneth Klecker
Doug and Wendy Knight
Barbara Kralj and Mark Matsler
Carrie Larsen
Mike Larsen
Vincent Leduca
Sue Levin
Briana and Troy Linden
Amy O’Neill and Larry Staver
Nancy and Issac Oren
Justin Oswald
Erick Petersen
Peter Platt
Portland Art Museum
Paige Powell
Gillian and Dave Rathbun
Curtis Robinhold
Kim Russo
Ann and Robert Sacks
Sammye Sanborn
Lisa Sanman
Louis A. Santiago
Robert Schlichting and Michele
Miller
Peter and Megan Schoonmaker
Lizard Lounge
Christine and Jay SchroederFain
Julie Mancini
Self Enhancement, Inc.
Anne McLaughlin
Joan and John Shipley
Rich and Janet Meganck
Bob and Susan Moore
Susan Shugerman and Joseph
Mann
Trudi Morrison
The Skanner
contributions
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William Slater and Monica
Hayes
Arvie and Julie Smith
Vicki Smith and Claude
Burgoyne
Sidnee Snell
Bill and Kathy Spezza
Willadean and Jerry Stonelake
Maggie and John Stott
$1–$99
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Carol A. Montclaire
Burky and Harry Achilles
Lynn Montgomery
Brianne Baker
Alise Munson
Erin Baldwin
Andrea Nelsen
Erin Beery
Michelle Niemann
Larry and Carmen Booman
Susan E. Owens
Brooks Resources
PDX Contemporary Art
Melinda Carnese
Lillian Pitt
Molly and Adam Carroll
Nancy Pitt
Lucia Toro and Gerard C.S.
Mildner
Sara Cotton
Lucas Posada
James and Joan Croteau
Peter Rock
Nikki Tracy
David J. Danowski
Drinda Roth
Graciani and Claudia Valderrama
Courtney Day
Heather Schermerhorn
Jason Valdez
Michael Etter
Dianna Smiley
Margaret Vining
James Finn
Kate Sokoloff
Mark and Marilyn Von Bergen
Wilmot Foster
Tom and Terri Sorensen
Siavash Vossoughi
Mark Fristad Productions
Allyson Spencer
Dr. Robert, Linda and Brittany
Weinstein
Steve Gehlen
Hannah Steinberg
Cheeraz Gorman
Rebecca A. Storkson
Jackie Weissman
Judy Graves
Dave and Lynda Sullivan
Diane West
Rebecca Groff
Luke Swanson
Laura Wieden Blatner and Joe
Blatner
Perry Gruber
Keith Thomajan
Pamela Strickfaden
Sherrie Wieden White and Mike
White
Quinton Hallett
Deborah and Robert Vaughn
Claire Hobson
Kate Wagle
Janet and Don Williams
Julie Hotchkiss
Joan Komolos Wardwell
David and Susan Wisdom
Kimberly Howard
Ellen Waterston
Michael Woods and Annie
Bellman
Estelle M. Kelley
Barb and Don Welty
Young Kim
Jess and Andrea Wetsel
Kevin Wright
Darryl King
Thomas and Anne Winner
Doug and Jill Zanger
Suzanne Maddux
Amanda Wright
Wendy Martenson Alejos
Shelly Lynn and Jeff Mix
contributions
We send our sincerest
appreciation and thanks
to all the volunteers who
helped us in 2009 and
2010. Your expertise,
time, wisdom, love and
unselfish willingness
to give to Caldera help
make every student and
program at Caldera a
success.
Grants and Sponsorships
National Endowment for the Arts
Arnerich Massena
Oregon Arts Commission
Bank of America Charitable
Foundation
Oregon Council for the
Humanities
Black Butte Ranch
Oregon Cultural Trust
Collins Foundation
Oregon Department of
Education–Summer Food
Service Program
Hoover Family Foundation
The Roundhouse Foundation
H.W. Irwin & D.C.H. Irwin
Foundation
Harold and Arlene Schnitzer
CARE Foundation
Jackson Foundation
Silver Family Foundation
“I love Caldera,
and part of that
has to do with
the people that
make up Caldera,
because no
matter where
you come from,
they always make
you feel like you
belong.”
—Javier (Camp Name: Shark)
Deschutes Children’s
Foundation
Dynamic Consulting
Five Pine Lodge and
Conference Center
Gray Family Fund of the Oregon
Community Foundation
PacifiCorp Foundation
Perkins & Company
Portland Regional Educational
Telecommunications Corporation
The Program Management, LLC
Redmond School District
Keeping the Beat
Sisters Ranger District
The All Spice Company
KeyBank National Association
AnyBody Pilates
Lake Creek Lodge
Herbert A. Templeton
Foundation
DocuMart
The Lamb Foundation
EcoBinary LLC
Marie Lamfrom Foundation
Arnold Ismach
Charlotte Martin Foundation
McGhee Productivity Solutions
Marylhurst University
NIKE, Inc.
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
Pizza Schmizza
Metolius River Resort
U.S. Bank Central & Eastern
Oregon Division
Powell’s Books
Meyer Memorial Trust
Whole Foods
TWIST
Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory
Commission
The Bonnie C. Wieden Memorial
Fund of the Oregon Community
Foundation
Vestas Americas
Whole Foods
Wieden+Kennedy Studio
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Multnomah County, Oregon
Allied Works Architecture
Ford Family Foundation
In-Kinds
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Multnomah County Cultural
Coalition
T J Education Fund
The T. Rowe Price Program for
Charitable Giving
U.S. Bancorp Community
Relations
Wieden Family Foundation
Wieden+Kennedy
William L. Price Charitable
Foundation
Ziba Design
thank
you!
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caldera’s
adult Program
adult program
artists
in
residence
During the winter months at our Arts Center,
Caldera provides monthlong residencies to
professional artists: the gift of time and space to
create their work. Since 2002, Caldera has served
almost 300 artists in this way. Artists are awarded
residencies through a rigorous, independently
juried selection process (that is, chosen by an
expert panel that changes each year, and made up
of individuals outside of Caldera’s board and staff).
The residencies provide artists with workspace,
a beautiful natural environment and a community
of other artists during the critical early-creation
stages of their work. The result of this work ends
up traveling back into Oregon’s public cultural life
in the form of books, performances and exhibitions,
as well as in new collaborations and new ideas
that could only have formed in the special
atmosphere of a residency.
With our residency program, we demonstrate
our support of creative experimentation and
see ourselves as a “research and development
laboratory of the arts.”
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We also value the lifelong learning that these
residencies represent, and model, for the young
people in our youth program. Caldera’s artist
residents often conduct special workshops and
presentations in the schools we work within, and
Caldera’s high schoolers visit the artists’ studios
for a glimpse into the artists’ creative processes.
Artist residents also present their work in free
“Open Studio” events—three each winter—that
welcome the Central Oregon community into
Caldera for work-in-progress readings, exhibitions
and performances.
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“Without Caldera
giving me that
support at a crucial
moment of my
artistic life, I would
certainly be a more
discouraged artmaker, if indeed I
remained one at all.”
Caldera’s residency program is now gaining
recognition locally, nationally and internationally
(we host a number of international residents each
year). For instance, in 2010, we were honored to
receive an Oregon “Golden Spot” award from the
Ford Family Foundation, recognizing our support
—Jacob Coleman
of Oregon visual artists. The award allows us to
Artist in Residence, 2009
give special fellowships to Oregon visual artists
in our program. Caldera was also featured in a
report by the Alliance of Artists Communities (the
national membership consortium of artist residency
programs) spotlighting our dance residencies,
as Caldera is one of the few residency programs
in the United States that accommodates dance
companies.
adult program
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2009 highlight
In 2009, Caldera hosted a special curated residency
with Reggie Wilson’s Fist & Heel Performance
Group and Andreya Ouamba’s Premier Temps dance
company. Both companies gathered in Central
Oregon for 17 days to work on a new production,
“The Good Dance,” which premiered at the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis in 2010. During their
residency, the companies conducted workshops with
Caldera youths and staged public work-in-progress
performances at our Arts Center in Central Oregon
and at Conduit in Portland.
2010 highlight
In June 2010, Caldera hosted a curated residency
with Oregon Ballet Theatre. OBT brought
seven dancers to Central Oregon for a week to
choreograph new dances and develop ongoing work.
At the end of the week, the company conducted
three dress rehearsals open to the public, including
talks and question-and-answer periods with
Christopher Stowell, OBT artistic director, and Anne
Mueller, OBT principal dancer and choreographer
(now the artistic coordinator).
adult program
artist
in
residence
participants
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2009
2010
Joe Girandola, Pennsylvania, sculpture, drawing,
performance-based video work
Liz Gill Neilson, Oregon, painting, printmaking,
multimedia art
Fever Theater with co-artistic directors Jacob
Coleman, Amber Whitehall, and Kate Sanderson
Holly, Oregon, performance, directing, teaching
Duncan Neilson, Oregon, music performance and
composition
Jenny Vogel, New York, video, photography,
computer arts
Lisa Wells, Oregon, literature
Philip Iosca, Oregon, visual arts and design
Jessie Rose Vala, California, painting, ceramics,
installation
Cannon Bernáldez Bazan, Mexico, photography
Kim Russo, Florida, drawing, painting
Kate Northrop, Wyoming, poetry
Jason Randolph, Virginia, juggling, magic,
installation, performance art
Allison DeLauer, California, poetry
Hand2Mouth Theatre, Oregon
Sandy Florian, California, poetry and fiction
Erin Elder, New Mexico, curating, literature
VONIGA with Joe Janiga and Courtney Von
Drehle, Oregon, music performance and
composition
Anna Marie Rockwell, New York, painting
Rafael Oses, Connecticut, poetry
Jessica Burton, Oregon, dance choreography
Jason Porter, New York, fiction
Kevin Cooley, New York, photography/video
Wendy Given, Oregon, photography, installation
Krista Caballero, California, video, performance,
sculpture, installation
Danielle Kelly, Nevada, visual arts, literature
Heather Watkins, Oregon, drawing, printmaking,
book arts, interdisciplinary
Noelle Stiles, Oregon, performer, choreography
Vanessa Renwick, Oregon, film, installation
Jin Lee, Illinois, photography
Cara Spooner and Alicia Grant, Canada, dance,
installation, film
events
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24/7
On October 23, 2009, Caldera hosted our annual
fund-raiser, called 24/7, on the 6th-floor terrace
of the Wieden+Kennedy building in Portland.
The event featured a student art sale, a wine
pull and the opportunity to bid on special stories
that Caldera youths had written about their lives,
presented in beautifully designed packages.
With over 100 in attendance, Caldera raised over
$30,000.
Oct
events
It is found in the mountains and
the city. It is in homes and in
hearts. In the paintbrush and
discovery
of
that
special place between hope and
change. Caldera is a place that
you can take with you wherever
CALDERA
you go and will always be there
whenever you need it.
Come spend an evening with us
and take Caldera with you.
F R I D AY
stories of
change
The year 2010 marked the beginning of a new
idea—Stories of Change—for our annual fundIt is
found
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mountains
raisers:
each
year, we
present
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great transformation in their life. On
hearts. In the paintbrush and
P O R T L A N D O R 9 October
7 2 0 927, 2010, Caldera supporters gathered
pen.
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the songs
at a the
luncheon,
sponsored
at the of
birds, the laughing of children
Caldera board member Myrlie Evers-Williams.
and
the civil
discovery
of that
Myrlie
is a national
rights activist, author
and
the first
full-time
chairman
of
the
NAACP.
At
the
special place between hope and
Hors d’ oeuvres and
event, she spoke about her life, the tragedy of the
change. Caldera is a place that
assassination of her first husband (civil rights leader
wi ne wi l l be served
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canand
take
with of
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wherever
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24 / 7
in her life and for Caldera students. Joining Myrlie
you go and will always be there
were several of our youths who shared their own
whenever you need it.
inspiring
P r e s e n t e d b y Ke y B
a n k stories. With 300 in attendance, Caldera
netted $115,000 to support our programs.
Come spend an evening with us
$75 PER GUEST
and take Caldera with you.
To purchase tickets, call
(503) 937-7594
Caldera Lunchbox
June 4
12–12:30 p.m.
events
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words
without
walls
Featuring Bryonn Bain
& Portland’s own—Madgesdiq
Bryonn Bain
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To celebrate our students’ efforts at the end of
the 2008–2009 Words Without Walls writing
and spoken arts focus, we hosted a First
Thursday student exhibition in June 2009 at the
Wieden+Kennedy building. Students performed
their own original work alongside professional
artists Good Sista/Bad Sista, Madgesdiq and
special guest Grand Slam Poetry Champion Bryonn
Bain. Bryonn is a Brooklyn prison activist, hip-hop
artist, spoken word poet, author, actor and educator.
Madgesdiq
events
Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn’s own prison activist, hip hop
artist, spoken word poet, author, actor, and educator. Described by Cornel West as an artist who “speak’s his truth
with a power we desperately need to hear,” Bain hosts
BET-J’s award-winning talk show My Two Cents.
Wrongfully imprisoned during his second year at Harvard
Law, Bryonn sued the NYPD, was interviewed by Mike
Wallace on 60 Minutes, and wrote the Village Voice cover story—“Walking While Black”—which drew the largest
response in the history of the nation’s most widely read
progressive newspaper.
“I Wanna Be Free”, these are the words of the ever so
engaging artist known as Madgesdiq. After a brief professional basketball career, which took him to many different countries around the world, including Brazil and
Portugal, Madgesdiq set out on a new journey, one that
would eventually lead him back to his childhood hobbies
of writing and music. Madgesdiq’s CD, “I Wanna Be Free”
is available at www.myspace.com/madgesdiq.
friends events
In 2009, encouraged by a Match Challenge Grant
from the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, Caldera
began a Friend campaign. In 2009 and 2010,
Caldera hosted special receptions to increase our
donations and both were huge successes. We met
our goal of 75 new Friends in 2009 and 50 in
2010. Thank you to the Maybelle Clark Macdonald
Fund for this opportunity, and thank you to all of the
Friends of Caldera who made it possible.
directors and committees
Caldera Board of Directors
Dan Wieden, Chair
Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer
Wieden+Kennedy
Portland, Oregon
Cindy Campbell
Founder
Friends of the Children–Portland
Portland, Oregon
David Chen
Founder and Principal
Equilibrium Capital Group
Portland, Oregon
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Former Chair, National Board of Directors
NAACP
Pomona, California
Dan Heagerty
Independent Environmental Consultant;
formerly with David Evans and Associates
Portland, Oregon
John Jay
Global Executive Creative Director
Wieden+Kennedy
Portland, Oregon
Cristy Lanfri
Central Oregon Supporter of the Arts,
Education and Children
Bend, Oregon
Wes Lawrence
NW Regional President
KeyBank
Portland, Oregon
René Mitchell
Partner and Account Supervisor
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Bend, Oregon
Mary Normand, Secretary
Executive Assistant
Wieden+Kennedy
Portland, Oregon
Howard Shapiro
Nonprofit Consultant
Portland, Oregon
Dennis Wilde
Architect and Partner
Gerding Edlen Development
Portland, Oregon
Nancy Wilgenbusch
President Emerita and Life Trustee
Marylhurst University
Marylhurst, Oregon
Executive Committee
Dan Wieden, Chair
John Jay
Mary Normand
Howard Shapiro
Tricia Snell
Finance and Investment Committee
Wes Lawrence, Chair
Cindy Campbell
Howard Shapiro
Tricia Snell
Development Committee
Howard Shapiro, Chair
Les Badden
Greg Brown
Matt Hansink
Emily Powell
Tricia Snell
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Central Oregon Advisory Committee
Deborah Brzoska, Chair
Caryl Casbon
Kathy Deggendorfer
Paul Evers
Wendie Every
Polly Gervais
Jenny Green
Sue Hollern
Pamela Hulse Andrews
Terry Kemple
Cristy Lanfri
Katie Merritt
René Mitchell
Cate O’Hagan
Amanda Stuermer
Jody Ward
Facility Committee
Dennis Wilde, Chair
Thom Brzoska
Jim Evered
Tricia Snell
Cassie Wieden
Nominating Committee
Dan Wieden, Chair
Cindy Campbell
Robert K. Gerding
Cristy Lanfri
Wes Lawrence
René Mitchell
Howard Shapiro
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staff
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Tricia Snell
Executive Director
Kirsten Kilchenstein
Education Director
David Nolfi
Finance Director
Matt Hansink
Development Director
Alisha Miller
Development Associate
caldera
staff
“I have never
met people who
sincerely care
about youths
as the Caldera
staff does. They
as a whole have
done so much
for me that I
want to do the
same for youths
in the future.”
—Luwam
(Camp Name: Lulu)
Katie Wisdom Weinstein
Artists in Residence Coordinator
and Special Projects Manager
Charlene Conley
Education Operations Manager
Christina Quattrocchi
Education Program Coordinator
Deborah Hodges
Youth Mentor
Theresa Peterson
Youth Mentor
Jon Larsen
Youth Mentor
Katie Noland
Program Assistant/Intern
(funded by Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund)
Jim and Patty Evered
Thom Brzoska
Site Management Team
(through March 2010)
Bill and Kathy Spezza
Kevin Jacobson
Site Management Team
(April 2010 onward)