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.
1987
On February 22, 1987 Andy Warhol died unexpectedly from complications following routine gallbladder surgery at the age of 58.