Money talks

clipped from www.oregonlive.com Art college gets a $15 million gift Hallie E. Ford's gift to the Pacific Northwest College of Art will bring world-class artists to Portland for residencies Hallie E. Ford, a 102-year-old philanthropist, is giving the Pacific Northwest College of Art $15 million, the largest single donation to an Oregon cultural group. The gift signals an important turnaround at the once-struggling art school and marks its growing role as a hub for the city's creative economy. The college will use most of the money to create an ambitious program that will bring world-class artists, performers and designers to live and teach in Portland. Under the program, the college's 3,000 full-time and continuing education art students will be able to study painting, design, computer graphics and the like, with the artists.