What is the Coalition?
Clatsop County is a vibrant community reaching inland from the mouth of the Columbia River and south along the Pacific Ocean, a territory explored by Lewis and Clark. There is a rich diversity within our community including historic Native American tribes and immigrant Scandinavian, Asian, and Latino cultures. Many residents were born and raised in Clatsop County, others came to retire after living all over the world, and many have come because of the vast natural beauty of our environment.
In response to an opportunity to provide grant funding for our community by the Oregon Cultural Trust, a planning committee was formed in January of 2003. It was made up of volunteers who enthusiastically worked for two years to provide a community-driven cultural arts survey and inventory of our county community. The needs, strengths, priorities, and visions for the arts, heritage, and humanies of our County were revealed, and a plan of action begun.
Vision Statement
"Clatsop County residents recognize and understand the correlation between the cultural arts and a strong quality of life. To that end, they support, promote, preserve, and protect cultural programs in the arts, heritage, and the humanities, all of which help define who they are as a people and their sense of place in the world around them".