UPCOMING EVENTS
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Skylab Maker's Market
Wednesday, June 18
4-8pm
Skylab Garden
1825 NW Vaughn
Portland, OR 97209We’re so excited to vend in Skylab’s garden for their upcoming Maker’s Market. Expect handmade ceramic bowls, houses, prints, fabric art, and more from GMS artists!
Shop one-of-a-kind pieces made my local artists, featuring furniture, art, ceramics, jewelry, textiles, clothing, lighting, home goods, vintage finds, and hand-blown glass!
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Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine: a multimedia wearable art event in partnership with SoundsTruck NW
Thursday, August 14
Time TBD
South Park Blocks (SW Park Avenue from Salmon Street to Jackson Street - exact location TBD)The Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine, hosted by GMS in collaboration with SoundsTruck NW (STNW), will harmonize live music, fashion, poetry and video to showcase GMS artists’ creative voices and contributions to the community.
STNW will provide curated musical accompaniment performed live by professional musicians all on a mobile stage!
NEWS
Preview Magazine: "Gather:Make:Shelter Offers Creative Solutions"
GMS is featured in the Feb/Mar 2021 issue of Preview! The editorial covers some of our work over the past year including projects and achievements by Dana, Aileen, and Michael.
Gather:Make:Shelter in 2020
Learn about our achievements in 2020 and our ambitious plans for the next year!
ART FROM THE VILLAGES Exhibition
Our first exhibition, ART FROM THE VILLAGES, will run December - January and features artists living in C(3)PO and Dignity villages. Artists will receive 100% of the sales of their work.
INTERLACE Community Weaving Project
In October we participated in Portland Textile Month by launching the INTERLACE Community Weaving Project.
Hygiene Hub Collaboration
In August we embarked on our first public art collaboration with Hygiene4All to design a hygiene station in SE Portland built and operated by people experiencing houselessness.
Oregon ArtsWatch: "Artful solutions to foster community"
Oregon ArtsWatch recently featured Gather:Make:Shelter’s Founding Director, Dana Lynn Louis’s newly installed privacy fence screen titled "Ripple Effect" designed for two temporary shelter-in-place villages on SE Water Avenue.
C(3)PO Coalition
In April Gather:Make:Shelter joined with twelve other local organizations and two government offices to support our unhoused community with the opening of three shelter-in-place sanctioned camps in Portland, collectively referred to as C(3)PO.