Portland Street Art Alliance

The community art program secures public donations and grants to create community murals with artists. In 2024, this program produced 40 individual murals plus 2 large grant funded mural projects with youth public educational components. This program works with 100s of artists, community members, property owners, and volunteers each year.

The public engagement program provides educational opportunities to the public by hosting interpretive street art tours for visitors, locals, students, and businesses. Psaa also provides consultation services, presentations and educational sessions for city government, organizations, and neighborhood associations. In 2024, psaa offered tours and public engagement events that included 177 adults and 480 youth.

Operations fund is a general fund for all donations that are not designated to any of the other three funds and are used primarliy to sustain the operations of the orgnization. Through these funds we are able to pay for general overhead expenses such as office expenses, it expenses, wages and payroll taxes and other contracted servicecs essential to sustain the oeprations.