UPCOMING EVENTS

Skylab Maker's Market

Wednesday, June 18
4-8pm
Skylab Garden
1825 NW Vaughn
Portland, OR 97209
We’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!
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

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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.