Portland Walk of Stars Luncheon

The Portland Walk of Stars is an event that recognizes and honors community leaders who have made a substantial contribution in the form of services, advocacy, and/or financial resources to the arts and urban living in the greater Portland area. Benefiting the Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) theatre facilities, the lunch event is held in the Dolores Winningstad Theatre and attracts approximately 225 people from the business and arts community.

Started in 1998 by the Friends of the Performing Arts Center, the Portland Walk of Stars is the organization’s primary fundraising event to help maintain the interior and exterior facilities of the PCPA theatre buildings, including the Keller Auditorium, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Newmark Theatre, and Dolores Winningstad Theatre.

To date, fifteen distinguished individuals have been honored with their own granite star, embedded in downtown Portland’s Main Street sidewalk. Honorees include:

• Brian Booth, community leader

• Gwyneth Booth, community leader

• James DePreist, Oregon Symphony conductor

• Michael Allen Harrison

• William Jamison, gallery founder and visual arts leader

• Vera Katz

• Norman Leyden, Oregon Symphony associate conductor

• Mike Lindberg, Portland city commissioner

• James “Jimmy” Miller, philanthropist

• Terence O’Donnell, author

• Selina Roberts Ottum; Metropolitan Arts Commission director

• Michael Powell

• Thomas Vaughan, Oregon Historical Society director

• Barbara Walker, Portland parks and open spaces leader

• Jean Vollum, philanthropist

In addition to being honored with a star, each honoree receives a bronze folly bollard, inspired by the harlequin or jester-themed pattern brick paving on Main Street, and created by artist Valerie Otani.