Village Building Convergence

Site :: Art from the Heart

Created: 2010
Location: 3505 NE Broadway, Portland OR 97232
Neighborhood: Grant Park
Type: Private Space
Website: http://artfromtheheartpdx.com
Organizer(s): Emily Conradson
Lead Placemaker(s): Emily Conradson: Natural Building
Attribute(s): Natural Building


This site is ASL Friendly!
*Donations made on this page will go to the project featured on this page. If that project no longer needs these funds they will help support construction and maintenance of similar projects.

Description
We are using permaculture and sustainable gardening practices to transform a ½ acre of weeds and blackberries into a productive beautiful space. We plan on growing vegetables organically for local families and for the local food bank. We will also have educational fieldtrips for local elementary school students. 
Our garden has a cob bench, which will be finished during the VBC, strawbale planting beds, a pumpkin, squash and melon patch, and a small fruit tree area that will be planted as a forest garden during the VBC.
Directions 
Highway 26 West to Cedar Hills Blvd. exit. Turn right off the exit and get in lefthand turning lanes. Turn left onto Barnes Road. Barnes crosses Cornell and becomes Saltzman Rd. Continue on Saltzman and then turn right on Hartford Rd. When Hartford narrows and goes through two brick pillars it becomes West Rd. Turn left on 118th Ave. Park in our driveway, on 118th Ave or on West Rd. Walk through gate, through backyard, past 2 white fences and join us! 
OR take MAX to Sunset Transit Center and we will have rides available at 8:45am, 11:45 am and 12:45 pm. Please call (503) 804-3753 to let us know you’ll be arriving by MAX and needing a ride.
Schedule
Come to our garden on Memorial Day Monday May 31st for our VBC events: 
9am -12pm Cob Bench Finishing Workshop
Our beautiful cob bench was built with the help of neighbors, City Repair volunteers and local Montessori school children. We will be finishing it with linseed oil and beeswax during the workshop. 
12pm-1pm A delicious healthy lunch will be provided by a local business 
1pm -4pm Forest Gardening Workshop.
Mike Thayer of the VBC will be leading a workshop on forest gardening around the fruit trees in our garden. Come learn and help us plant. 
Weeding, planting and attacking blackberry roots will be continual activities throughout the day!

Description

Art from the Heart is an art school, studio, and gallery for adults with developmental disabilities. By creating an earthen bench “growing” out of the parking lot we will enliven our limited outdoor space. We plan to make a curved cob bench suggestive of trees and decorated with mosaic tiles. Art from the Heart embraces growth for artists both personally and artistically and plans to embody this motif for our bench. This past winter, we played with cob indoors and made a small display tower for our artwork. It was so much fun “making mud pies” that we decided to work on a larger scale and incorporate more media with the cob. Come join us in playing in the mud- a dirty good time is guaranteed!

While at Art from the Heart, please visit our studio and gallery. Our mission is to foster each artist’s creative growth, build positive relationships within our community, and promote an awareness of the cultural contributions from people of all abilities. We provide a venue for social connection, artistic play, and financial empowerment through the sale of art. When we’re not sculpting with cob, Art from the Heart offers classes Monday through Friday to about 40 enrolled artists. We hope to debut our newly sculpted cob bench at our annual summer show, Bloom, on June 10th. Contact us for more information.

Schedule

 

  • Workshop: Friday May 28th 9am-10am & 1pm -3pm: All about cob with Michael Cook (ASL interpretation provided 1pm-3pm)
  • Tuesday June 1 9am-2pm: cob building!
  • Wednesday June 2 9am-2pm: MORE cob building!!!
  • Thursday June 3 9am-2pm: cob building and sculpting
  • Friday June 4 9am-3pm: cob building and MORE sculpting!!!