Building Five Events
Performance Kimberly Smith Claudel
Artist in Residence Kim Smith Claudel will present a performance as the culmination of her time in Building Five as the Ground Beneath Us resident.
Materials as Species
Join Krystle Moody Wood of Materevolve and Jessie Curry of VonCurry Studio for the launch of a new immersive workshop series entitled Materials as Species. Ideal for textile professionals, academics, and enthusiasts, this educational event offers a unique blend of sensory experiences, hands-on learning, and material insights.
Hosted at Building 5, Portland’s historic Marine Artwork building, attendees will explore Pacific Northwest seaweeds to uncover their role in marine ecosystems and their potential in the future of textiles, while engaging in immersive learning and networking with a community of sustainability-minded peers.
Includes: Locally grown dinner and wine from FoodArtLove, Take home weaving frame, communal weaving experience, hand foraged PNW seaweed by Shifting Tides, sustainable textile insights, and education on seaweed and an incredible community of sustainability and textile practitioners.
Program Overview: As the textile industry faces a future of climate-related risks, the chance to reshape our relationship with Earth’s living systems begins now. To shape the future of performance apparel and materials, companies must take a comprehensive approach and deepen our commitment to sustainability alongside innovation, reintegrating ecosystems into supply chains and positive wellbeing into work.
By exploring the life cycles and flows of materials in the textile industry through multi-sensory, experiential learning, we can begin to weave human-made supply chains to more-than-human ecosystems. Through slowing down, observing, reflecting, and reimagining with fellow peers, new perspectives are born and connections are made that can sustain the work ahead.
With a focus at the intersection of sustainable textiles and oceans, this event invites attendees to collaboratively explore Pacific Northwest seaweeds to understand broader marine ecosystems and their significance in the future of fashion and textile industries. Through a blend of immersive learning, textile education, and community networking, this event is designed to empower attendees to grow human and more-than-human connections that will help them reimagine new possibilities for themselves, their work, and their world.
Purpose: To foster sustainability community, education, and ecosystem empathy through hands-on exploration, imagination, and networking.
Ticket Fee: Sliding Scale of $100-$375
Register HERE.
On The Wall Video Screening
Join us for our second On the Wall video screening. We will be presenting 60 minutes of original creative NW video work from PNW artists.
12th House
Juma DeJesus and Vale will be creating an immersive experience for the community to be transported into the world of the 12th House.
David Eckard in Residency
David will present his time based performance piece Totter with a reception August 3rd from 2pm -5pm. You can visit the work on August 10th and August 17th from 10am-2pm. The Performance will take place August 24th From 12:00 noon to finish. Please join us for this unique time based art experience.
Dreaming the Upside-Down Tree
Lyra Butler-Denman and Tyler Leif Catanella are devised theatre makers bringing their backgrounds in movement, music composition, choreography, theatre education, sculpture, somatic education, community organizing, and justice work to this new big experiment of a project, Dreaming the Upside-Down Tree. Together with three collaborators they lean heavily on curiosity, play, and wild, loving, no-holds barred improvisation. They are thrilled to have time in Building Five to explore this stage of the project and look forward to inviting you to experience whatever emerges from this creative time together in this enormous and special space.
NW Marine Art Works Open Studios
NW Marine Art Works (NWMAW) is the home to Building Five and over 60 artist studios. They will open their studios on Saturday and Sunday June 1 & 2, 2024, 10am-4pm for their annual Summer Open Studios
Paintellica
Paintallica installations are improvised and largely site specific. They emerge from a few days and nights of intense work. This short time frame encourages high energy and raw intuition.
On The Wall Video Screening
Join us for our inaugural art film night. We will be screening shorts by local artist.
Ghosts Ship
I wondered about the people who labored in the foundry. Work that started during the war effort in the 1940’s and into the 1970’s if their spirits ever lingered here or passed through occasionally. This installation, “Ghost Ship” acknowledges the spirit of these folks and the work they took on, repairing the metal machinery of ships plying the oceans of the world. -Julie Rall