Alias Arts

“This year Portland has been robbed of our summer and the past few months have seen almost constant rain. But when the sun does make a rare appearance a group of us have been painting murals at Dignity Village. Dignity Village is the country’s first city-sanctioned homeless encampment. Now much more than the tent village that it started as, Dignity Village is a place for homeless individuals to find stable housing and resources while looking for work and permanent housing. Next month they will celebrate their 10th anniversary.

In an effort to strengthen the relationship between Dignity Village and local artists, to protect houses from the weather, and to brighten people’s days, the mural project links artists with residents to paint murals in the village. The late start to summer has been the only thing holding us back. When we do get some sunshine a group of us head out there to paint and as more murals happen the more requests we get from the residents to do their homes”…Klutch

“I just got back from my first trip to Haiti. I’m working to develop a sustainable building project in the village of Barriere Leudi, in collaboration with a group of artists, builders, architects, and engineers – and with the Mango Grower’s Association in Barriere Jeudi.

After the Quake, Ben Wolf, Olivia Katz, and I were asking ourselves how we as a small group of individuals could contribute to the situation there, especially with regard to so many people losing their homes. We knew that there would be many big NGO’s doing projects large and small, but that there would still be room, and even need, for focused contributions on a person to person scale. So, we spent the last 5 months developing the Konbit Shelter project. We will be working to adapt the Super-Adobe building technique to the climate of Haiti, and building some structures in this Leogane village, starting with a community center, and moving on to housing of all works out.

Take a look at our site here, we will be posting more detailed updates soon!”… Swoon

More from Gola here.

With the hopes that the weather will be cooperating with us this weekend, we thought Club der Visionaere would be a good place for the Wooster Collective meet-up this coming Saturday in Berlin.

We’re thinking we’d get there around 17:00 on Saturday evening. It’s going to be a terrific (and perhaps quite large) group of artists and art fans from all over Europe. So drop us a note at woostercollective@ gmail.com if you’re planning on coming

Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend.

Marc and Sara

Artist: Manu Budant

More photos here.