Gather Make Shelter https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/ is a homeless and poor persons art project by Dana Lynn Louis founded in 2017.
Another similar long-running project is Hospitality House founded in San Francisco in 1967. One homeless research project is the podcast interview series the Outsiders https://www.knkx.org/podcast/outsiders. Recorded in 2019 and 2020 it seems quaint today. It was before COVID, before BLM, and before fentanyl. If you look at the history of the Opium Wars, China may see fentanyl and precursers as payback. The episode Inside Outsiders encapsulates the series, it's a good start point for listening. Gather Make Shelter runs parallel to P:ear Mentor https://www.pearmentor.org/ doing art and job training for homeless youth in Portland since 2002.
Impressions from the Collective is a show by Gather Make Shelter artists Aileen, Blue, Faera, Fahd, Fawn, Gloria, Jaycaob, Madrone, Marz, Tonnisha, and Violet. The artists worked with Mullowney Printing printmakers over a year to develop their art and learn printmaking. The prints are on display at Sator Projects Sunday April 6 and at the Gather Make Shelter space in NW on April 11.
Gather Make Shelter prints. https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/news/qgq4jh7rh8oiv2l34mmnyw4fthhye9
On April 6 at Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 1PM-3 Free
On April 11 Gather:Make:Shelter Gallery https://www.gathermakeshelter.org 1335 NW Kearney 5:30PM-7:30 Free
