Julie Mancini Staff Meeting Space

This page is a part of Named Spaces at Literary Arts, highlighting authors and individuals honored through named spaces at our headquarters at 716 SE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR. Learn more and explore the full gallery here.

Artwork courtesy of Jonathan Hill.

Julie Mancini Staff Meeting Space, second floor

In honor of Julie Mancini, ​Executive Director of Literary Arts from 1985-2000​​.

Learn more about Julie’s career and legacy here.

Listen to Julie on The Archive Project talking about the early days of Literary Arts during our 30th birthday celebration on September 8, 2014. She shares memories from her fifteen-year career, including the ways in which she helped convince world-famous writers such as Joan Didion to visit Portland. Sharing feedback from visiting authors, Mancini chronicles how Portland Arts & Lectures grew to be the largest literary lecture series in the nation.