The Open Space Residency is designed for emerging artists seeking a nurturing environment to explore and experiment with their new work. It serves as a dedicated space where artists can physically engage and test their creative endeavors. Shaking the Tree provides artists with an open platform to share the fruits of their labor and showcase the work they have produced. Given the existing imbalances within our industry, we will prioritize applications from BIPOC art-makers, while also encouraging everyone to apply.
The Visual Arts Residency has a rolling deadline (see application form at the bottom of the page).
The Visual Arts Residency has a rolling deadline (see application form at the bottom of the page).
2025 Visual Arts Residents:
February - March 2025
Honor Thy Mothers by Tim Wagoner (he/him) pays homage to the women before us who have carried handcraft, passing stories along through stitches. The pieces explore the tension and interaction between handmade and manmade, natural fiber that will eventually decompose and permanent plastics that remain forever. They live in simple chaos and complex order. In these accelerated time have we lost the appreciation for the slowness in creating?
Honor Thy Mothers by Tim Wagoner (he/him) pays homage to the women before us who have carried handcraft, passing stories along through stitches. The pieces explore the tension and interaction between handmade and manmade, natural fiber that will eventually decompose and permanent plastics that remain forever. They live in simple chaos and complex order. In these accelerated time have we lost the appreciation for the slowness in creating?
2024 Visual Arts Residents:
October - November 2024
So Below by Clifton Holznagel (he/him). So Below is an experiment in analog intelligence. They are an advocate for truth, an oracle of the collective. A dreamer striving to understand the unknowable. They question what is possible, what They trust in, what They have experienced and where Their faith lies.
So Below by Clifton Holznagel (he/him). So Below is an experiment in analog intelligence. They are an advocate for truth, an oracle of the collective. A dreamer striving to understand the unknowable. They question what is possible, what They trust in, what They have experienced and where Their faith lies.
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April - May 2024
Trapped by Briana Ratterman Trevithick (she/her). This collage series explores the intricate relationship between humanity, femininity, and nature, examining the profound imbalance within our species. Digging into themes of the Madonna/Whore complex, race, wildness, entrapment and control, these pieces respond to the ever-pervasive Eurocentric male gaze and underscore the interconnectedness of patriarchal oppression, both in its dichotomous and reductionist view of women and its disregard for nature.
Trapped by Briana Ratterman Trevithick (she/her). This collage series explores the intricate relationship between humanity, femininity, and nature, examining the profound imbalance within our species. Digging into themes of the Madonna/Whore complex, race, wildness, entrapment and control, these pieces respond to the ever-pervasive Eurocentric male gaze and underscore the interconnectedness of patriarchal oppression, both in its dichotomous and reductionist view of women and its disregard for nature.
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February - March 2024
Joshua (Josh) Sin (he/him) is a Canadian artist and designer living in Portland, Oregon. He centers his practice around design fiction and world-building using discarded textiles and character design to explore middle culture. The in-between identity in being physically neither “East” nor “West, the bridge between past, and future, and the craft of deconstruction and reconstruction.
Joshua (Josh) Sin (he/him) is a Canadian artist and designer living in Portland, Oregon. He centers his practice around design fiction and world-building using discarded textiles and character design to explore middle culture. The in-between identity in being physically neither “East” nor “West, the bridge between past, and future, and the craft of deconstruction and reconstruction.
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Our Visual Arts Residency (VAR) is on open call to visual artists, photographers, film makers, fashion designers, graphic artists, textile artists, and more. Through this residency, artists’ work will be featured in our tiny (98 sq ft) Inside the Box gallery for a duration of 5 weeks. Artists are encouraged to think creatively about how they will display their work within the confines of the space.
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Shaking the Tree Theatre is located at 823 SE Grant St.
Portland, OR 97214
Oue main office is located at 2136 SE 8th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
For our theatre: Look for the Big Blue Warehouse on the corner od SE 9th and Grant and enter through the gate.
For our main office: look for the beautiful mural on the corner of SE 8th and Grant. Entrance is on SE 8th.
Shaking the Tree receives major funding from:
The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, The Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Portland Arts and Culture Access Fund, The Ronald W. Naito Foundation, The Rose and David Dortort Foundation, supporting organization of the California Community Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Jackson Foundation,
Ronni Lacroute, Jessie Jonas, Ellyn Bye & Anonymous x2.
Shaking the Tree Theatre receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Shaking the Tree is supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust through the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition.
Ronni Lacroute, Jessie Jonas, Ellyn Bye & Anonymous x2.
Shaking the Tree Theatre receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Shaking the Tree is supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust through the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition.
