Gather:Make:Shelter creates opportunities for people experiencing houselessness and poverty to engage in collaborative, skill-building projects in creative fields, bringing houseless and housed people together to empower each other. They work to build a city of neighbors, a connected community where everyone looks out for each other. Bridge City means to them more than a series of structures over the river—they build bridges of hope and trust towards a healthy society where people believe in each other and recognize the value and impact of their neighbors’ lives on theirs.
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Cultivate Initiatives, Gather:Make:Shelter’s quarter-mile mural created in collaboration with residents of the new Menlo Park Village, 2023, Portland, Oregon.
Prism, a Queer collective of artists at Queer Affinity Village, Gather:Make:Shelter, fashion show at the Portland Pride Festival, 2022. Photo credit: Dante Korinto
Field trip to see "Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism” at the Portland Art Museum with residents of BIPOC Village provided inspiration for GMS village mural projects. March, 2022.
Avalon Mural with WeShine Project
Mullowney Printmaking Workshop Series
Textile Workshop Series at GMS Headquarters
Jaycob during Retrospect Exhibition Opening
Mark Rodriguez during Retrospect Exhibition Opening
Portland Pride Waterfront Festival and Parade 2024
“We strive to support institutions that share our artist-centered values. The small grassroots arts organizations as well as the museums that comprise our grantees provide invaluable opportunities for artists to express their unique perspectives on the pressing urgencies of the day. We hope that our grants help to amplify artists’ voices within their communities, in national discussions and debates, and across platforms in the international contemporary art world.”
Joel Wachs, President