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.
Gather:Make:Shelter
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
1986
Warhol painted more than 100 works related to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, which some have read as complex reckoning of his homosexuality, Catholicism, and mortality in response to witnessing AIDS devastate the gay community.