Friendtorship

✨ T-minus one day!! ✨
Tomorrow is the big Friendtorship showcase — and today we’ve been busy hanging art, laughing, climbing ladders, and getting everything just right for our Walt Morey ✕ PSUGD exhibition: Threads of Us 💛

Our middle-schoolers and PSU designers have poured so much heart into these pieces: companion species, collagraph prints, sewn magical objects, origin stories, and worlds built entirely from imagination and care. 🌟 

And most importantly, bonds that will last a lifetime. 

We can’t wait for you to see what they made — and to celebrate the creativity, kindness, and collaboration that brought it all together.

📅 Tomorrow — Tuesday, Dec 3
📍 Vanport (4th Floor) & FMH (2nd Floor)
⏰ 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM

Come through, bring a friend, and feel the magic. ✨

Collagraphs, creation, and community 💭

Our Friendtorship mentors and mentees from Walt Morey Middle School came together to create collagraphs - a printmaking technique which allowed the students to design, cut and glue shapes to their board, ink the plate, and use a printing press! 

Check out these student pieces celebrating the values which hold us together. 

Food Chain: Stories of Food and Us is a collection of stories currently being produced in collaboration between Walt Morey Middle School students, PSU college students, and local independently owned food businesses near PSU. This Friendtorship project explores the intersection of food and identity. The middle school and college students make art around a meal with a specific story that connects to who they are as a person. These projects included

This project culminated in a street activation, participatory art experience, and art exhibition on Montgomery Street Plaza at Portland State University in tandem with PSU’s Hunger & Houselessness Awareness Week — a week that serves as a time for reflection and action, shedding light on the dual issues of hunger and houselessness, which impact millions of Americans.

Walt Morey Middle School and PSU mentors!