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Nest Borealis

Name: Nest Borealis
Brand: WeMake
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Nest Borealis

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For the last two years I have been exploring performance and installation as the character Carina, a Star seed manifested on earth from the Carinae Nebula eight million light years away, as a harbinger of celestial curiosity. The birdhouse built will be answering the question, 'how would a birdhouse appear in this nebula?' The answer will undoubtedly be intergalactic.

Maker: Matthew Barry, Experiential Designer

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WeMake is a non-profit 501(c)(3) that helps to foster art and design in Portland's creative community through hands-on experiences, creative dialogue, and design in action initiatives. Come make it happen.

Looking for speakers for our design conference in October. Who would you love to hear from?
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ANNOUNCEMENT! SAVE THE DATE! 10/19/18 WeMake will be hosting our 4th design conference this fall! We’re excited to partner with the @portlandartmuseum to make it happen and we promise you’ll want to be there :) Speakers and more announcements happening soon!
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Visiting the students and teachers of @psugd today. Their program @friendtorship was one of our beneficiaries from our @designweekpdx events WeMake donated $2000 to help support their program! .
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WORKSHOP! In our HQ @tillamookst join the talented Adam Vicarel for a lettering workshop on 8/2.

Learn the basics of hand lettering with designer and lettering artist Adam Vicarel. This workshop is for people interested in the basics as well as those who have been lettering for years. @adamvicarel will go over the fundamentals of drawing letter forms, speak to the differences of lettering and calligraphy, as well as share his process for conceptualizing, designing, and lettering words. Find out more and register via Adam’s site!
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GIVING BACK + THANK YOU! We are excited to announce that through our design-in-action efforts during Design Week we were able to give back to three organizations that support arts education for underserved youth and teachers here in Portland. It’s all made possible by the designers that have given their time, volunteers, partners, our WeMake team, and most importantly the design community for showing up! A HUGE HIGH-FIVE AND THANK YOU to everyone!! We were able to donate $2000 each to these three great organizations: @calderaarts @schoolhousesupplies and @friendtorship Read more about our @designweekpdx fun on the blog today. Yay! We love to party for a good cause!
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@psugd design students in our HQ @tillamookst to learn about curation, design and business with founder @yvonnepemerson .
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FOR SALE! Missed the 26 Lettering Show? Grab your prints in our shop today! These are limited edition silkscreened prints. Proceeds go towards arts education!
Featuring artists:
@brettpstenson @jessicahische @nickmisani @tobiashall @kkade_schwarzmaler @_craigblack @dani_loureiro @jordan_metcalf @erikmarinovich @markcaneso @masgrimes @shaunaparmesan @marykatemcdevitt @piesbrand @mrseaves101 @alessio_joseph @joshwhiggins @borrowed_times_pdx @zachumz @thomascbradley @martinaflor @magicmaia @annadrivis @bryantodd @coltbowden @monogramproject
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FOR SALE SOON! If you missed the 26 Lettering Show and you want a print, we have some left!! They will be up online by this Monday! Plus you can see them in person and purchase at @tillamookst M-F from 9-5. The show will be up for a few weeks!
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Meet Travis Wheeler aka @borrowed_times_pdx Travis is a sign painter that paints everything by hand. He’s old school and does not use a computer or projector to create his work. It was great to have Travis in the 26 show tonight!
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All our friends are out tonight. .
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Jessica Hische dropped so much lettering magic tonight! Thank you to everyone who came out, and a HUGE THANK YOU to @jessicahische for the enlightenment 🤩 Fun sketches by the attendees-
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The workshop today will be inspired by the psychedelic era of lettering. Thanks for already blowing our minds @jessicahische ✨💓🌈✨
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Getting ready to kick off our Lettering Workshop with @jessicahische see you soon attendees! .
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Thank you to everyone who made it out to see @jordan_metcalf talk about process and design! A huge Thank You to the @portlandartmuseum for supporting WeMake three years in a row as our host venue, we love it! And Thank You @erikmarinovich for being such a clever moderator!
Of course our events wouldn’t be possible without the many volunteers and the WeMake team to make it happen!! We’ve got two more days of our lettering exploration, hope to see you there!
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Kicking off Design Week in style. ,
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Remembering the first year of @designweekpdx we were unofficially the closing party and our pal @draplin was our sketchXchange guest. It was also our first year of WeMake Celebrates and we brought a whole new meaning to Birdhouse Design. Time flies when your having fun.

Join us tonight for a special DWPDX sketchXchange with @jordan_metcalf & @erikmarinovich as we kick off our celebration with three days of Lettering love ✨🖤✨
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Our Lettering Exploration begins tomorrow with sketchXchange featuring @jordan_metcalf and @erikmarinovich at the @portlandartmuseum .
On Wednesday we have a sold out workshop with lettering artist and author Jessica Hische. We are excited to welcome @jessicahische back in town. She’s also a participating artist in 26–A Lettering Show happening in our HQ @tillamookst on 4/19. Come on by and grab a print, they’re only $20!
We’ll also have live silk screening and tacos on a bike with @tacopedalerpdx

Tickets are still available for sketchXchange, grab them in our link.

Funds raised from these three events goes towards arts education here in Portland! Yay! .
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Thinking back on the very first Design Week and our little project Put A Bird In It. We named it that to poke fun at Portlandia. Designers and artists are much smarter than just putting birds on things, and these bird houses really showcased that. Put A Bird In It had a five year run, and raised about $50k, and each year we had 100 birdhouses submitted. Since then we’ve done a Pin Show and now this year a Lettering Show to celebrate @designweekpdx We can’t thank the community enough for their support in helping us raise money for arts education. We hope to see you out at an event next week! To see more birdhouses check out our Flickr via our site.
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TONIGHT! Sun’s out fun’s out!
Come down to @tillamookst for one of the hottest lettering shows on the west coast! 26, features 26 lettering artists from around the world. We’ve silkscreened 40 prints from each artist and they are only $20 a piece!!!! Doors open at 5, prints go on sale at 6pm. All funds benefit arts education, what could be better than that?! We know it says sold out on the @designweekpdx site, but we’ll be letting people in all night, until 9pm. See you soon and a HUGE THANK YOU to these designers ( in no particular order) for making it happen!
@brettpstenson @jessicahische @nickmisani @tobiashall @kkade_schwarzmaler @_craigblack @dani_loureiro @jordan_metcalf @erikmarinovich @markcaneso @masgrimes @shaunaparmesan @marykatemcdevitt @piesbrand @mrseaves101 @alessio_joseph @joshwhiggins @borrowed_times_pdx @zachumz @thomascbradley @martinaflor @magicmaia @annadrivis @bryantodd @coltbowden @monogramproject .
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