Support Our Placemaking
The redevelopment will include a LEED-Gold, ADA-accessible, solar-powered Community Hub with creative, gathering, and performance spaces; music and dance rehearsal studios; a community kitchen, reading room, and tea bar; and new artist-in-residence studios. A Community Wellness structure will feature a sauna, outdoor sweat lodge, and soaking pool, alongside an outdoor amphitheater and ceremonial space.
Surrounding the buildings, a climate-resilient landscape will support Indigenous, Black, and inter-community cultural practices through native habitat restoration, culturally responsive food and plant medicine gardens, a greenhouse, and a First Foods forest—supported by rainwater catchment, stormwater management, and permeable pathways that protect local waterways.
Community leadership is centered at every stage, from design and implementation to long-term stewardship, ensuring Prismid remains accessible, responsive, and rooted in ancestral knowledge and regenerative practices.
Your donation helps close the final $1.4 million gap and brings us to groundbreaking this May.
Give today to help complete a sustainable sanctuary for creativity, healing, and land-based resilience, for generations to come.
Your Donation Today Will Support BIPoC Artists for Generations to Come
$1.4 million to raise before May groundbreaking
After years of deep community visioning and planning, Prismid is one final push away from becoming a permanent, regenerative sanctuary for Black, Indigenous, and all POC artists and cultural workers.
We have raised $5.6 million of our $7 million capital campaign goal. With $1.4 million left to raise and groundbreaking scheduled to begin in May, this is a pivotal moment.
Led by Black and Indigenous artists and cultural workers, and shaped by an intergenerational group of more than 60 BIPoC artists, elders, and cultural workers, Prismid’s rebuild transforms our 0.74-acre Portland site into an environmentally and economically sustainable Community Hub rooted in creative practice, wellness, and land stewardship.
Our Campaign Values
We honor our forebearers. We acknowledge histories of under-representation in funding. We are building a funding model that is sustainable, sovereign, intergenerational. We know what we need to thrive. We move towards abolition & decolonization. We give ourselves trust and permission to name, ask, and receive what we need to thrive in the present on behalf of the future.
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Capital Campaign Timeline
2020-2021
Community
Crowdfunding:
Acquired Property
+
Initial
Programming
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LAND
ACQUISITION:
$633K
2023
Pre-development
Campaign
Planning
Campaign
Capacity Building
Initial/Lead
Funding
for Capital Begins
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GOAL MET:
$1M
Spring 2024
Campaign Launch
& Fundraising
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$5.6M RAISED
2024-2025
Final Phase of Capital
Campaign
Groundbreaking
May 2026
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GOAL TO
MEET: $1.4M
2026-2027
Sanctuary Opening
Ceremony
Summer, 2027
COMMUNITY VISION FOR PERMANENT SANCTUARY REALIZED!
Thank You to Our Funding Partners!
With gratitude to:
1803 Fund
Arlene & Michael Rosen Foundation
Autzen Foundation
Collins Foundation
Kresge Foundation
Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Meyer Memorial Trust
Multnomah County
NEA/ArtsHere
Oregon Metro (Community Placemaking)
Portland Clean Energy Fund
Hundreds of online donors
And the few who wish to remain anonymous—we’re still singing your praises while keeping your names close to heart! <3