For more than a decade, Art on Alberta (AoA) has been a fixture in our community, providing education, and outreach to a wide ranging audience in order to foster understanding and appreciation of all forms of art. AoA is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the Alberta Art 
District’s distinct cultural identity through art and educational activities.
Art on Alberta was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2000 to meet the cultural and coordination needs of the arts-related organizations emerging on Portland’s NE Alberta Street. This nonprofit organization sponsors and organizes the Art Hop, which has an annual theme and displays local artists of various disciplines, juried exhibits, and performances along a 17-block stretch of NE Alberta Street. Art Hop has proven to be the most effective expressions of AoA’s mission.
The Alberta Arts District is a unique neighborhood with an emerging voice in the Portland art community. AoA has recently rebuilt its Board with the intent of increasing the visibility of the art events in this community to foster the voice that we lend to the larger dialogue. Hosting a major art event such as Art Hop challenges our members, animates and inspires artists, unifies the business community, and builds Alberta Street’s reputation as an exciting place for art in the Portland metropolitan area. Our inclusion of performing as well as visual arts enhances the district’s overall purpose.
Overall, AoA makes great strides to:
Throughout the past decade, other AoA activities have included:
- Organizing the annual spring Art Hop and serving as fiscal sponsor of the fall Street Fair.
- Publishing a monthly Art Map for Last Thursday Art Walk.
- Organizing the Art Agog project which brought scrap metal sculptures created by young teens from Vocational Village to display on the street
- Creating and overseeing the Community Mural Project, which involved members of the community painting people of their community.
- Securing and administering several grants to fund our events as well as the kinetic metal banners located up and down the street.
- Organizing Tannenbaum Madness an annual street-wise event with unusual holiday trees as its theme.
- Organizing the Art Hop Art Show which offers a gallery show during Art Hop open to anyone who creates in the Alberta neighborhood.
- Organizing the All Alberta Art shows with multiple destinations along the street showing the work of one prominent artist during Art Hop.
- Publishing a monthly electronic newsletter.
- Creating and maintaining a website with information about member businesses.
- Becoming a centralized spokesperson for the street (featured in numerous local and national publications such as Sunset Magazine, The Detroit Free Press, The New York Times, Seattle Post, Lucky Magazine, and more)