I recently got in contact with Kirk Rea of City Repair when I returned to Portland. Thanks to a grant from the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT),City Repair was hiring painters to paint newly installed pedestrian crosswalks to improve safety and walkability in the city. I was thrilled to start back again and immerse myself…
Hello again & about me
It’s been about three years since I worked at City Repair, and about that long since I stopped writing this blog. But I’m back! Back at City Repair with a turn of events and decided to pick this blog back up as a way of documenting my experience. After I graduated from Evergreen College with…
Work Day at Jean’s Farm!
Every Friday Jean’s farm hosts a work party for community and CVC folks to come out and spend some time in the soil and enjoy the quiet of the forest. I worked to repot herbs to send to Kenton Women’s Village, a houseless community, for their garden projects. From one mother chive plant we replanted…
Pablo Helguera’s Educaton for Socially Engaged Art
I used the handbook as a guide during my time at the internship. Socially Engaged Art needs: Engagement with Audience Collaborative Dialogue Hands on activities Reggio Emilia Schools (Opal School is where I went for elementary) believe that the goal of education is to reenvision the child not as an empty container to be filled…
Youth Empowerment Night
The first evening event for the VBC was the Youth Empowerment Night, organized by a high school student. The event included all young motivational speakers talking directly from their experiences of living with hardships (disability, coming out as trans, living with an eating disorder, being an immigrant, experiencing incarceration. Youth musicians played their sets, there…
One Place After Another by Miwon Kwon
This book discusses the history and considerations of site-specific art and locational identity. Kwon begins by articulating a timeline for site specificity. He outlines that it emerged in the late 1960’s in the wake of the minimalism art movement. This early site-specific art tended to be more literal – of actual locations and very tangible…
Trespass Part IV
Self Sustaining Urban Folkart DIY in Spirit Counter-intuitive towards market and career considerations Low Budget Ephemeral Community Centric
Moving of the T-Fleet
The day to day work of maneuvering and setting up the T-Fleet creations! SO much behind the scenes work goes into these temporary placemaking structures.
Curiosity Corner Intersection Painting in St. Johns
This project took 2 full days to complete! I was so happy to be a part of this project, from planning to creation days, and found my role as the youth coordinator for the project. The day was made joyous with live music, delicious food, and very friendly neighbors and youth, all excited to participate…
Placemaking in Small Ways
How can we utilize our creativity combined with smaller amount of land and resources while promoting resiliency, joy and healing within our communities?
ART & BEA 