UPCOMING EVENTS

LOOSE THREADS & RAW EDGES

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.

NEWS

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Portland Art Museum Visit

Last Wednesday, GMS founder Dana Lynn Louis got the chance to take the Queer Affinity Villagers on a field trip to Portland Art Museum .

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VALENTINE

VALENTINE, our second exhibition at our new headquarters in the Pearl District, is a collaborative art exhibition featuring artwork gifted by local artists to C(3)PO.

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INTERLACE Community Weaving Project

In October we participated in Portland Textile Month by launching the INTERLACE Community Weaving Project.

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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.

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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.

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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.