September 3 - November 1, 2026

Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3, 2026
5:30-7:30PM

Gallery Hours
Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pm or by appt

1335 NW Kearney St.
Portland, OR 97209

Adornment is often reserved for aristocracy. The common person is expected to wear plain colors and utilitarian shapes meant for labor; clothes that blend in. In Loose Threads & Raw Edges, the GMS Collective explores adornment as identity. The exhibition celebrates our artists’ love of color, texture, and responsiveness to material. These creations are meant to be seen and felt. They are the antithesis of the erasure many of our artists experience in our capitalistic society. 

Funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Arts Access Fund.

October 2026

Opening Reception
First Thursday, October 1, 2026
5:30-7:30pm

Gallery Hours
Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pm or by appt

1335 NW Kearney St.
Portland, OR 97209

Join us for the opening of Portland Textile Month! We are honored that our current exhibition, LOOSE THREADS & RAW EDGES, is included in this year’s theme: LAYERS OF RESILIENCE.

October 9, 2026
Portland Art Museum and Portland State University Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design
Portland, OR

OAEA is thrilled to welcome Dana Lynn Louis as our 2026 keynote speaker! A Portland-based visual artist, educator, and social activist, Louis explores themes of interconnectedness through drawing, painting, textiles, sculpture, performance, and large-scale public installations.

Read more about the OAEA Conference here.

November 5 - December 20, 2026

Opening Reception
Thursday, November 5, 2026
5:30-7:30PM

Gallery Hours
Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pm or by appt

1335 NW Kearney St.
Portland, OR 97209

The Unveiling is a solo exhibition by GMS artist Faera J. Valore. Featuring mixed-media pieces, The Unveiling explores the concepts of multifaceted exploration of self, realms both seen and unseen, Trans Euphoria/Dysphoria, and liminality.

Faera is a vibrant, Queer/Trans, mixed-media artist who joined the GMS Collective in 2023. She has worked on several murals in the WeShine community, The Mullowney Project, and the Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine fashion show in 2025. Currently, she is experimenting with fiber arts, various collaging materials, and is working on a poetry anthology called 8x8.

November 5 - December 20, 2026

Opening Reception
Thursday, November 5, 2026
5:30-7:30PM

Gallery Hours
Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pm or by appt

1335 NW Kearney St.
Portland, OR 97209

There is an invisible web holding all that surrounds us. We all have the opportunity and choice to perceive it or not. Call it universe, Spirit, love… It connects us to every person, creature, plant, mushroom, moment, breath, and cloud. The work in Zenyatta’s first solo exhibition, Inner Planes, features decades of visionary collages and sculptures created in tandem with the unseen. Most of the artwork in this exhibition has never been shown. Synchronicity and happenstance inform the work, and if you ask Zenyatta, it’s as if the pieces created themselves.

Zenyatta is a lifelong artist. Beginning in her teenage years, she was drawn to collage. She begins by hand-cutting and meticulously organizing her collage materials through a complex system. Compositions are not planned, but completely intuitive; each collage piece informs the next to be pasted down. In March 2026, Zenyatta exhibited her art for the first time in a group show titled New Buds at the GMS Gallery.