Social Practice Assembly 2024 Friday, June 7 – Sunday, June 9
at Lloyd Center Mall, Rose City Book Pub, and The Community for Positive Aging in Portland, Oregon
ASSEMBLY COMES TO THE LLOYD CENTER MALL!
This year, Social Practice students have developed projects after spending considerable time as artists-in-residents at Lloyd Center Mall in Northeast Portland. Wearing ID tags that declared themselves “Mall Artists,” they explored this unique and ever-changing shopping center to develop friendships and collaborations with mall shop-keepers, mall walkers, mall security, and mall visitors.
Join us at Lloyd Center Mall and other venues from Friday, June 7th through Sunday, June 9th for interactive and participatory artworks from Portland-based artists working in socially engaged art forms. Free and open to the public!
Presented by the graduate students of Portland State University’s Art + Social Practice MFA Program, Assembly is an annual three-day gathering for experimental events, workshops, and performances highlighting collaborative work and public artmaking.
The weekend event opens on Friday at the Lloyd Center Mall, with an experiential mall walk, followed by artist talks at Rose City Book Pub from Luz Blumenfeld, Liv DelGandio, and Gili Rappaport. Saturday is a full day at the Lloyd Center Mall that starts at noon and brings a talk show, buyer’s remorse shop, fashion show, life-size bingo and more! Plus, don’t miss the unveiling of a special collaboration with The Community for Positive Aging on Sunday morning!
Schedule
Check our Instagram for updates, @psuartandsocialpractice. All events are free and open to the public.
| June 7 Friday | 11:00 – 12:00 Assembly Opening Event Lloyd Center Mall | Perfect Action Mall Walk, Kye Kauffman Grant, M. Michelle Illuminato. Meet in NE parking lot by Marshalls. Look for the red balloon. Free and Open to Public |
| June 7 Friday | 2:00 – 6:00 Rose City Book Pub1329 NE Fremont Street | Art + Social Practice Graduate Talks Luz Blumenfeld, Liv DelGandio, and Gili Rappaport |
| June 8 Saturday | 12:00 – 6:30 Assembly Lloyd Center Mall Welcome Desk (Info Site), Mudland and various sites | Interactive and participatory artworks from Gili Rappaport, Luz Blumenfeld, Olivia DelGandio, Midori Yamanaka, Manfred Parrales Aburto, Clara Harlow, Lou Blumberg, Simeen Anjum, Nina Vichayapai and more. |
| June 9 Sunday | 10:30 -12:30 Assembly Closing Event The Community for Positive Aging 1820 NE 40th Avenue | Building A Future Family: A Project Unveiling Presentation of collaboration, conversation and activities with CFPA community and Luz Blumenfeld, Olivia DelGandio, Emily Fitzgerald |
Support, Venues and Community Partners
PSU Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design, Lloyd Center Mall, The Community for Positive Aging, Mudland, Katie Shook, Rose City Book Pub, PSU Print Club, Social Practice Club and more.
Note about Travel and Parking
The Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade will once again be on an east side route this Saturday June 8th. The parade will end on Multnomah, right in front of Lloyd Center. Portland Police and PDOT will be barricading off many roads around Lloyd Center as early as 7am on Saturday including the following:
FREEWAY & STREET CLOSURES
• I-5 exit (Weidler Street)
• I-84 exit (Lloyd Center)
• Multnomah Street from 9th Street – 16th Street
• 16th Street from Multnomah Street to Halsey Street
They will remain closed until the parade is disbanded and this could be as late as 1pm. Park in the NW parking garage with entrances at 9th and Halsey and the entrance near Barnes and Noble. This will be the only parking access up until the streets are opened. The NE surface parking lot will be used for the disbanding of parade participants including the Marching Bands that will be getting on to buses being staged on Halsey St.
Peruse past programs in the Assembly Archive:
