Regeneration is a creative act
ERA funds and empowers the artists, educators, and land stewards living that commitment
UPCOMING EVENT:
New ERA Festival 2026
Saturday, October 17 • Noon–11 PM • The Century Center
Join us for New ERA Festival, a full day celebrating music, local creativity, and community. Explore the Growers, Makers & Doer’s Market, browse the silent auction, and take part in the live raffle.
Enjoy live music from Jeshua Marshall & The Flood, Aage Birch, The Color Study & more! Performances span Commonwealth Pub, Prost!, GoodLife Brewing, and the Volcanic Theatre Pub courtyard.
This community fundraiser supports the Endowment for Regenerative Artists and its mission of creativity and regeneration for people and the planet.
Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $20.
Rooted in the land
In 2025 the inspiration for ERA grew from a working ranch in central Oregon, where rotational grazing restores soil, diversified grasses rebuild habitat, migration corridors reopen for elk, swans, and countless others and the beauty of the land compels creativity. The rancher tends the land — and opens it for education, creative pursuit, and community. ERA was founded to carry that same spirit forward: purposeful, generous stewardship for people and creative life.
Informed over decades by both years of nonprofit agricultural education work and years of creative leadership empowering artist communities an interconnected mission was unveiled:
Enriching the legacy of creativity and regeneration for people and the planet.
This is where
it starts
Art.
Land.
Legacy.
ERA is founded on the vision that a nonprofit endowment’s investments and the funds it grants fulfill the same values. Our regenerative endowment is poised to produce annual income that expresses our mission symbiotically with where it is channeled directly to the artists, educators, and land stewards whose work sustains creative life, deepens community, and regenerates ecosystems in perpetuity.