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
“The Warhol Foundation aims to support the full range of artistic activity in America—from exhibitions at major museums to neighborhood projects by artist collectives. Arts writers, through the range and specialization of their individual interests, touch upon all of this activity—illuminating and interrogating it and bringing it into conversation with the public. Support for artists is not complete without support for the circulation and serious consideration of their ideas. The Arts Writers Grant program keeps artists at the center of cultural dialogue and debate—in our opinion, right where they belong.”
Joel Wachs, President