The social practice artists have a participatory conference today: The Schemers, Scammers, and Subverters Symposium. The event mascot is a snake. You can drop in or out any time, the schedule is on their website http://schemersscammers.club/. In the Windsor Rooms A & B of the Crowne Plaza Hotel 1441 NE 2nd 9:30AM-6 Free
Caldera holds 3 Saturday readouts of its resident artists. The residents get snowed in to work in a good year for global warming, and the buildings are used for youth art programs warm months. This resident readout is by Sarah Abdel-Jelil (Minneapolis, MN), Gisell Calderón (Minneapolis, MN), Abigail Chabitnoy (Fort Collins, CO), Ian Hanesworth (Minneapolis, MN), Larry Krone (New York, NY), Rubén García Marrufo (Portland, OR), Aurora Masum-Javed (Lewisburg, PA), Maximiliano (Portland, OR), Jamila Osman (Portland, OR.)
At Camp Caldera (use your Tripcheck.com for weather conditions on the road) www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free
Wabi Sabi Lobby is a show by Alika Cooper and Eric Wesley from LA. Wesley is known for converting an abandoned Taco Bell in St Louis into an art gallery, www.bortolamigallery.com. Here is the story of that project: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmmqgw/why-an-la-artist-turned-an-abandoned-taco-bell-into-a-midwestern-art-exhibit. Alika Cooper is a mixed media painter, sculpts and intervenes. The space, Private Places has very limited hours, so see the opening at this gallery in a working studio that plies the space between Portland and Los Angeles. At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday Map 5PM-7 Free
