Join us for a special First Saturday Open House held in the Oregon Contemporary courtyard, featuring 𝘗𝘪𝘤𝘯𝘪𝘤, an on-site installation by Alison Heryer. The event will have live music in partnership with Friends of Noise, plus food and drinks available for purchase from Richi's Tacos food truck, Dairy Hill Ice Cream cart, and our bar featuring Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey. This event is free and open to the public.
𝘗𝘪𝘤𝘯𝘪𝘤 is a social engagement initiative Heryer began in Kansas City in 2012 that encouraged community building and shared discourse through the collective creation of large scale quilts. For its latest iteration, Heryer’s red and white 5’x5’ picnic blankets will be laid out together to create a large abstract gingham quilt in Oregon Contemporary’s courtyard for the day, inviting people to come and go, enjoying community, conversation, activities, and music.
Alison Heryer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines costume, installation, performance, and community engagement. Her design credits include productions at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 59E59 Theaters, La MaMa, The New Victory Theater, Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, ZACH Theatre, The Hypocrites, and Redmoon. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, World Stage Design, and The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. She is a faculty member at Portland State University where she was recently granted the Sue Horn-Caskey & Charles F. Caskey Professorship of Textile Arts & Costume Design.
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Alison Heryer / 𝘗𝘪𝘤𝘯𝘪𝘤, Kansas City / 2012 / image courtesy of the artist
