Know Your City Executive Director Marc Moscato announced this week that he'll be stepping down from his position at the local history nonprofit. Moscato launched Know Your City (KYC) in 2009 with co-founders Lucy Rockwell and Kyle Von Hoetzendorff, and has led the organization for the past six years. Known as the Dill Pickle Club until a 2013 rebranding effort (that included design from Kate Bingaman-Burt), KYC's responsible for some of the most interesting local arts outreach projects in recent memory.

Last fall, the organization partnered with graphic designer Travis Neel and Tim Schulze's fifth-grade class at Harrison Park School to create a free multilingual newspaper, Jade Journal, a fine publication that discusses everything from food deserts to the mission of the Portland Chinese Times. KYC also collaborated with Oregon's Community Alliance of Tenants (CAT) to create a comic called Know Your Rights: Don't Get Evicted, which transforms the legalese of a tenants' rights handbook into a renters' resource you'll actually be interested in reading (a pretty key piece of information given Portland's no-cause evictions and shortage of affordable housing). And the group also brought a 12-week art project to the Columbia River Correctional Institution, which I reported on back in May.

Tomorrow night, KYC will host a party at Union Station from 5:30 to 7:30 in celebration of Moscato's tenure. They'll also be hosting collaborating artists and discussing forthcoming projects. In the meantime, KYC Programs Coordinator Amanda Tillstrom will take over as Interim Director until Moscato's permanent replacement is announced.