GMS Academy - Exhibition, Project, Mentorship

Occurring as a year-long project throughout 2019, The Gather:Make:Shelter Academy paired housed and unhoused artists together for an extended creative collaboration. Artists worked closely together throughout the year to create hand-painted ceramic artworks and an illustrated zine of poetry. Culminating in an exhibition at Russo Lee Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the exhibition presented 17 partnerships from the project with artist pairings intended to creatively work together and make decisions cooperatively. The project uniquely synthesized the artists individual ideas and aesthetics and expanded to include poetry and illustration collaborations to foster further investigation of art, history, interpersonal exchanges. The Gather:Make:Shelter Academy encouraged artistic expression and built on existing skills and interests. The resulting works were visual representations of the transformative relationships formed between the participating artists.

Participating Ceramicists: Chris Pate, Cynthia Lahti, Dylan Beck, Gail Heymann, Isabelle Soule, Jamin London Tinsel, Joanna Bloom, Joe Robinson, Lisa Conway, Madelynn Dubin, Marjorie Dial, Michael Newsome, Rob Lamb, Sarah Chenoweth Davis, Sarah Wolf, Thomas Orr and Chanda Zea.

Participating Painters: Aileen McPherson, Barbie, Christine, Disco, Jennifer Able, Jesse, Jody, Keegan Murray, Michael, Myrna Loy, Tonnisha, Tru Stark-Fyre, Will and Mark Rodriguez.

Participating Poet: Peter Saltzman