Monday April 17th 1. Nathan RiceI want to connect and create a dynamic network of people to help me reimagine play in Portland. I want to connect and create a dynamic network of people to help me reimagine play in Portland. We will use traditional and modern, materials to build forms and landscapes that can be inclusive to people of all abilities. We will be inspired by the self directed play philosophies of the original adventure playgrounds of the early 1960s and modern playscapes from around the world. The overall goals of this project is to create spaces that are beautiful, inviting, and unique yet blend in seamlessly with their community. I want the idea of the prefab, cookie cutter playgrounds to be pushed aside and have local communities invest in unique, challenging playscapes. unique, challenging playscapes. As an artist, I have been developing a library of shapes and concepts. My shapes, forms and ideas can be the beginning of a dynamic conversation. I believe that a complex combinations of shapes can begin to create models for playscapes that will create unique public spaces for everyone to enjoy. Location: Playground at North Park BlockTime: All Day

2. Ben GlasPersona Space“Persona Space” is a sculptural performance. The sculpture itself is a wearable square made up of white picket fences, connected via hinges; and wearable via straps that will go over my shoulders. The piece will be several feet in length and girth. At times when I feel exhausted of taking up too much space in a public setting and I need a physical break, I will take the contraption off and situate it, “claiming” space within a public transitory space. It will be a nuisance.Time: 9-3pmLocation: South Park Blocks PSU CampusLocation: South Park Blocks PSU Campus

3. Kali Kraemer Untitled Site Specific Installation This piece will be placed on the Lee Kelly sculpture in front of the PNCA entrance, it will last from the morning, around 9am, on April 17th, until it is taken down by someone else or destroyed. It is going to be a vaguely human shaped stuffed plush around 3.5’ tall and 1’ across using thin white colored nylon. This figure will then be strung up on some sort of rope and attached to the sculpture.The reason for making this piece is primarily to address the current state of the art scene and to bring atThe reason for making this piece is primarily to address the current state of the art scene and to bring at-tention to how many non-white, non-cis, non-male artists are overshadowed by these groups. I am plac-ing it in front of PNCA, an art hub, due to the history of the building as an immigration center that only en-forced white supremacy in America, and more specifically Portland.Time: 9AM - Location: North Park Block at PNCA entrance

4. Justin JamesI purpose to make drawings reacting to the North Park blocks. These drawings will vary in scale, surface and medium. Some included mediums will be acrylics, inks, iodines, graphite and chalk. These drawings will be on paper, photographs, and cement. The cement drawings will not be permanent, or damaging to city property. I will be moving throughout the North Park blocks. Identifiable features, WMA approximately 5’6”, dark clothing, wearing a mostly orange backpack, grey tennis shoes with white paint splatters.Time: 11AMLocation: North Park Blocks

5. Michelle Guthrie5. Michelle GuthrieI will install the maps at PNCA and other amenable places in the vicinity of the park. Once in the in park block, the community can access the work through installed stations that will contain Fluxus-type sugges-tions about ways to engage with the environment. Also, anyone who just happens to be in the park will have access to the engagement sites.Leading an engagement with the senses and the environment of the park, I provide prompts and map/hand towel/napkin that are gifted to the community for further engagement or as a reminder of the experience, or simply as a communication device and practical tool for promoting environmental aware-ness and action. Location: North Park Block between Davis & Everett, Park & 8thHBD Michelle!Time: 11AM

6. Jaleesa JohnsonPhysical LawUsing the historical, political and cultural weight of the artist's body to inform landscape and object, Phys-ical Law uses the presence of the black female body as both object and subject to tap into the often ig-nored double signifiers of trees and apples as symbols of racial violence via lynchings, while simultane-ously invoking their ties to (E/e)nlightenment and the creation of "the black body". Location: South Park Block at Portland Art MuseumTime: 11AM

7. Avery Bloch UntitledI will walk a shopping cart from my home at 1023 SE 31st ave to the North Park Blocks, arriving at roughI will walk a shopping cart from my home at 1023 SE 31st ave to the North Park Blocks, arriving at rough-ly 9:00 AM. I will gather materials in my shopping cart as I walk and once I arrive at the park, I will unpack my accumulated materials and begin to build sculptures with them. I may stack objects, I may arrange them, and I may intervene on the surrounding objects already in the environment. At that point all of the sculptures produced will be totally based on what I’ve gathered and what I can come up with. I will contin-ue to build, and take pictures on my iphone when I feel excited about something I’ve done, until 11:30 AM. After the conclusion of the building/performance, I will leave the objects where they are, unless they are especially large and egregious, in which case I will load them back into the cart and walk them home later in the day.Time: 11AM-11:30AM Location: North Park Block

8. Ashley Waddell Living Conversations This work will consist of a couch, two chairs, a rug, and a coffee table placed in the North Park Blocks be-tween Flanders and Glisan on the south basketball court creating a “living room” within that space. The work will also involve the participation of the public to engage in dialogue about homelessness with the homeless while in the “living room”. Participants will be giving conversation cards to facilitate topical dia-logue. The work will be in place for one day, 4/17. It will exist beyond the initial installation as a video doc-umentary.Time: 11AM-9PMLocation: North Park Block, South Basketball Court between Flanders & Glisan

9. Alejandra Arias Sevilla Living Room CornerThe Living Room Corner is a small installation that will be curated at the foot of a tree, particularly facing one of the benches in the North Park blocks. This little space is created with two cushions, one to sit and the other to lean on, they are approximately 1’ x 1’ x 6”.Time: 11AMLocation: North Park Blocks, middle of west side of Park Blocks, between NW Flanders & Everett, park Location: North Park Blocks, middle of west side of Park Blocks, between NW Flanders & Everett, park benches facing the tree.

17. Lizzie Hull & Aurora Wade & Corri ChavezBeetleGANGI’m working with a group of friends to bring awareness to to the community about this harmful species of I’m working with a group of friends to bring awareness to to the community about this harmful species of insect called the Elm Bark Beetle. The beetle can spread the Dutch Elm Disease via the spores on its back from tree to tree, this is a thing that happens a lot in Portland’s parks, though it also happens to trees all over the world. The illness causes the trees to stop transporting water up the vascular tissue to the top of the tree, causing some of the leaves to start changing color in the summer. We will be dressed up as “punk beetles” and pretend to kick trees while handing out information about Dutch Elm Disease. The flyers will look like the fungus that beetles spread on their backs. look like the fungus that beetles spread on their backs. Almost no one is aware other than those involved with the preservation of Portland’s parks, or the occa-sional wandering botanist, that these tree’s are even at such a great risk. We hope by being able to spread enough information, those unfamiliar with Dutch Elm's disease can spot trees that are infected around Portland and notify our Parks and Recreation so they can inoculate our trees before it’s too late.Time: 12:30PM - 1:30PMLocation: North Park Blocks

18. Maura Campbell-BalkitsBlind Portrait DrawingGet your lovely face drawn by a professional amateur portrait artist. Grinning, pouting, emotionless: you choose the face pose you want to be captured on paper. No money required. Just donate a piece of interesting trash in exchange for a portrait.Each portrait only costs 1 trash, so bring multiple trashes and get multiple portraits! Location: North Park Block at PNCA CampusTTime: 5PM-7PM

19. Nicholas PennellPortraits of Other People That Can Be Worn as MasksMy performance will consist of making paper masks portraits of ordinary people in the citMy performance will consist of making paper masks portraits of ordinary people in the city. While I am not skilled in the tradition of caricature art, my masks nonetheless bare stylized and often humorous likeness to my subjects, due to the intrinsically fun spirit of caricatures and plein air park portraiture. The masks are free and will be encouraged to be photographed and worn throughout the festival. I will set my station up on a simple box on a park bench, giving myself a flat surface and allowing room for a sitter. Time: noon-3pmLocation: South Park Blocks between Jefferson & Salmon

WWednesday, April 19th21. Beth HeinlyInterpretive Umbrella DancingBeth will be conducting a series of movements with an umbrella. Time: 9AM-10AMLocation: North Park Block at Flanders

22. Beth HeinlyConsider the Lobster: Surrealist “Nude” in LandscapeConsider the Lobster: Surrealist “Nude” in LandscapeAbsurd surrealist living picture. Time: 10:30AM-11:30AMLocation: North Park Block at Everett

23. Beth Heinly5 Minutes in Heaven, Dog Petting PenIn collaboration with the Oregon Humane Society there will be an enclosed area where visitors will have In collaboration with the Oregon Humane Society there will be an enclosed area where visitors will have the opportunity to submerse themselves in doggies for 5 minutes. If you happen to fall in love with one dog in particular, a reminder, they are all up for adoption. Just imagine what a great love at first sight story you would have for your new best friend. Time: 1-1:30pmLocation: North Park Block William Wegman’s Dog Bowl between Davis and Everett streets

24. Beth Heinly Wiccan CirclesWiccan CirclesFrom Couch Street to Madison using flowers and chalk casting magic circles marking sacred spaces. The circle promotes positive energy both spiritually and aesthetically as they have long been a source of inspi-ration in both art and religion. Time: 2PMLocation: North Park Block to South Park Block Couch to Madison

25. Beth HeinlyBody & Sound in Landscape: Peace ChantAn series of slow movement poses accompanied by humming in correspondence with Steve Gillman’s public sculpture “Peace Chant”.Time: 3PMLocation: South Park Block at Southwest Park Avenue and Southwest Columbia Street

26. Beth HeinlyUmbrella CosplayAA walk towards Mill Street wearing a surrealist umbrella cosplay. Time: 4PMLocation: South Park Block Columbia to Mill Street

27. Beth HeinlyAmerican Flag Body Print AA performance after Ana Mendieta, imprinting the female figure on the American Flag. Walking from Mill St to location in commemoration of Fort Tricia Nixon wearing the American Flag upside down. Fort Tricia Nixon was a blockade set-up in protest in May 1970 by students from Portland State University. There was a university-wide strike in protest against the U.S. political climate in general; civil rights, the US involve-ment in Cambodia and Vietnam, police/civilian unrest and the students who were killed at Kent State. Using muddy areas in the grass to make body prints on the American flag in solidarity with feminist ideals at our current contentious political climate. Time: 5PMLocation: South Park Block PSU Library at Hall St

28. Vox Populi Collective Screening Artists Chad States, Sascha Hughes-Caley, Maria Dumlao, Matt Kalasky from Vox Populi present a series of videos for outdoor viewing in conjunction with Portland’s “Night Lights”. The videos seam together in po-larizing the human figure with sound in varying acts; sensual, off-base, meditative, incantations. Each invite awareness to the present moment.

Night Lights is a monthly time-based public art event that promotes digital media, urban intervention, and technological innovation. On the First Thursdays of October through April, select artists are able to show-case their work on the North Wall of the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Offices (411 NW Park Ave, Portland, OR) and claim public space for their artistic practice. Past projects have included large scale digital media projections, live performance of dance and sound, and collective showings by students and professional artists alike. This is a collaboration between Regional Arts & Culture Council and Portland Community Media.Videos: Chad States “Untitled (Sunrise)” 2016, duration: 18:05Sascha Hughes-Caley “Untitled (Mistake)” 2015, duration: 3:37Sascha Hughes-Caley “Here” 2015, duration: 1:39Matt Kalasky “I Am The One Who Knocks” 2017, duration 15:00Maria Dumlao “Untitled Landscape” 2014, duration 20:00

10. Monica McGranePortraits in the ParkI’d like to use this opportunity to do two things: learn about the diverse amount of people who use the I’d like to use this opportunity to do two things: learn about the diverse amount of people who use the park and to practice my portrait/people skills. Thinking about the park as a melting pot of lifestyles is to me a metaphor for America as a whole. I have gathered portraits from Marina Abramovic’s Minute of Silence performance and will be practicing portraiture by studying these references. I will set up two chairs facing one another, and display a sign reading, “Tell me about yourself and get a free por-trait.” I will also be documenting people’s stories and compiling them for a sound and video piece to be constructed using the recordings and the portraits produces. My hope is that this series will highbe constructed using the recordings and the portraits produces. My hope is that this series will high-light how inhumane it is to assume someone’s story by judging their appearance, and that people are complex and fascinating, inside and out. Time: 12-2PMLocation: North Park Block at Flanders

20. Lewis IhnatkoFor the festival I plan to make an ephemeral installation sculpture made of materials found in the park. I have started collecting materials both natural and manmade with which to construct a sculp-ture. By collecting the materials exclusively from the park I aim to show a cross section of debris found in the park which I hope creates a portrait of the park through its detritus.Time: 9AM Location: South Park Block SW Clay St

Tuesday April 18th11. Carla MielnikUsing the vernacular of nature park signage, my plan is to create garden plaques, brochures and an Using the vernacular of nature park signage, my plan is to create garden plaques, brochures and an informational kiosk to inform the public about pollinator-friendly native plants and their importance to the local ecosystem and community. This project takes inspiration from the Los Angeles Urban Rang-ers collective and current projects like the Seattle Pollinator Pathway and Portland’s City Repair. They serve their communities by encouraging city-dwellers to look at their urban landscape as part of the larger ecosystem. I’m also informed by the work of the Olmstead Brothers, whose involvement in the development of the Portland Parks system at the turn of the 20th century influenced the feel of the development of the Portland Parks system at the turn of the 20th century influenced the feel of the city that we still enjoy today. The Park Blocks already existed at that time, but the Olmsteads made recommendations that the city reunite the North and South blocks, as well as create green prome-nades connecting all their proposed nature parks together. They strongly believed that a connection to nature was essential to the health of any city.Time: 9AM-2PMLocation: North Park Block and South Park Block ParkwideKiosk located North Park Block Playground between Burnside & Couch Street

12. Mercedes RajmeThis work will consist of a performer (me) patrolling a small area enclosed by a 6 foot tall white picket This work will consist of a performer (me) patrolling a small area enclosed by a 6 foot tall white picket fence as a means of addressing current immigration issues and the correlation between security and demarcation of land . Within the fence will be enclosed a small plastic American flag and the perform-er will be dressed as a security guard. The performer will not interact with the audience in any way except to prevent them from touching or getting too near the fence. This work is primarily in response to the immigration demand and proposal of building a border wall but also deals with issues of the pri-vatization of public lands and the modern extensions of colonialism. This piece will be performed on April 18th from sunrise to sunset on the north park block in front of PNCA.Time: 9AM - 9PMLocation: North Block Park at PNCA Campus

13. Avery WorthingtonThe UnravelingMy performance will consist of myself doing a number of rituals that lead to what I call “the unravel-ing.” My content will be simply understood but symbolic elements, representing emotions. I will be representing workload with papers scattered around me, who will be sitting in a heap in the park. I will be representing frustration and creative block with a large sketch pad that I will be sketching in, scrib-bling out, tearing up, and crumpling. I will also be representing stress and anxiety through the process of chain smoking throughout thisperformance, and putting my cigarettes out on my art. I hope to explore my emotion through the live performance, and have it be an eventually cathartic experience for the stress that I have been holding on to. I want the historical context of the performance to be clearly linked to the environment of stress that buzzes around a college campus.Time: 9:30AMLocation: North Park Block at PNCA Campus

14. Sarah BatMy artwork is a spoken word piece meditating on the city of PortlandMy artwork is a spoken word piece meditating on the city of Portland’s preoccupation with aesthetics over humanity and politics. The city has been known to remove homeless people for damaging the visual appeal of the parks, and raising the same concern to protesters. Taking inspiration from slam poetry and the work of Diane di Prima, who wrote about revolutionary acts and public space in Oak-land and the seventies, my piece will discuss the idea of public space. Themes will include whether parks truly count as public space, how much the city should be able to police what happens in them, and the historical precedence of parks as public space and grounds for assistance and revolution. I plan to perform it in intervals, leaving time between each reading to let my voice recoveplan to perform it in intervals, leaving time between each reading to let my voice recover. When not reading, I will be sitting on the ground on a blanket. Time: 10AM - noonLocation: North Park Block William Wegman’s Dog Bowl

15. Caitlyn Clester & Kimmy MunozBoys Will be BoysWe intend to create a performance piece that will interrogate rape culture in society. One of us will be partially clothed; while the other person paints “boys will be boys” repeatedly on her body for 3 hours, from 10am to 1pm in the South Park blocks, with a welcome mat placed in front that reads the defini-tion of the phrase “boys will be boys” which is as follows: “used to express the view that mischievous or childish behavior is typical of boys or young men and should not cause surprise when it occurs.” A bucket of paint will be set out to invite the audience to participate. The only rule is that it has to be the words “boys will be boys.”Time: 10AM-1PMLocation: South Park Blocks

16. Chelsea Couch Bowled OverI will provide a collection of fruits and vegetables as well as institutional objects alongside a reservoir I will provide a collection of fruits and vegetables as well as institutional objects alongside a reservoir of object-based interactive prompts. Participants will enact these prompts—each performance will be documented by a single photograph. Each participant will be invited to contribute a prompt utilizing the remaining objects. The performance will continue until each object has been interacted with once, or until the park closes.Location: North Park Block William Wegman’s Dog BowlTime: 11am--9pm