caldera is a catalyst for transformation through innovative art and environmental programs.

caldera’s youth program provides underserved oregon children with year-round, long-term mentoring through arts and nature projects, beginning at age eleven and continuing through young adulthood.

caldera’s adult program offers month-long residencies to professional artists: the gift of time & creative workspace at our blue lake facility in the oregon cascade mountains.

linking caldera’s youth and adult programs is a passionate belief in the power of creativity.

caldera’s programs currently take place in schools and communities in portland, bend, redmond, terrebonne, madras, sisters, and at our arts center, located on ninety acres of mountain and forest land at the edge of a volcanic lake west of sisters, oregon.