AFRU Gallery

01/07/2025

Our friends are Risk/Reward are taking submissions of performance art, site-specific performance, and interactive installations for their June Festival of New Performance. Check it out!

SUBMISSIONS TO THE 2025 FESTIVAL ARE NOW OPEN

Our 2025 Festival of New Performance will feature 4 to 6 pieces as part of the Festival Mainstage in PICA's Annex Theater. In addition, we may feature site-specific pieces, interactive installations, and other interesting performance works in PICA's open warehouse space. We want YOUR ART in our festival!

Submissions will close on January 29th, 10pm.

Check out the full details / application here!
https://forms.gle/PfJuqg1zU79UYAxz8

PHOTO CREDITS: The 2024 Festival of New Performance; from upper-left, clockwise: Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins, Sarah Turner, Olivia Camfield and Celeste Camfield, Given Davis. All photos by Jingzi Zhao.

12/17/2024

Join our good friends at Bridge Rat Studios for a night of figure drawing! Bring your choice of supplies (easels available, if needed), only $15 at the door. Come get some good sketches for a painting or just practice your life drawing skills and have fun with fellow artists. Hope to see you there!

Figure Drawing Workshop
Wednesday, December 18
6pm - 9pm
Bridge Rat Studios
322 SE Morrison St.
Portland, OR, 97214

https://www.afrugallery.org/post/figure-drawing-workshop-12-18

11/14/2024

08/14/2024

Hello All! I am trying to save my home and pay off a hefty judgement to my former husband. If I can't resolve this by the end of August, I'll lose my home and be forced to leave Portland. I am sorry to ask for help, but I am desperate and I am happy here, this has become my home and sanctuary. If I can sell 35,000 books, which I know is a ton, I will be okay. Please help if you can. Please share this link.
Thank you!

07/25/2024

Risk/Reward is looking for new micro-performances for their Election Anti-Party in September. Check it ouuuuutttt!

https://forms.gle/9ffJjVk32gskzwaE6

So many things have happened since I posted the Call for Submissions for our Election Anti-Party!

And I am more excited than ever to be doing this event. There are so many angles, so many more things to say about this election. And the submissions we've gotten so far are great.

There's still time! Our call for 2-to-4 minute micro-performances about the election is still open for ONE MORE WEEK!

https://forms.gle/9ffJjVk32gskzwaE6

Some quick ideas to get you started:

- Sing an acapella song about campaign finance
- Do a comedy set about coconuts (it's a meme)
- Flap your butterfly wings and spell out how that's going to influence the specific vote count
- Invite an audience member to throw a dart at a dartboard to determine the winner

If you've got an idea, drop us a submission even if you haven't worked out the details. Further guidelines are in the submission form. Still have a question? Email info at risk-reward.org

ONE WEEK LEFT!

Let's make it a good one.

https://forms.gle/9ffJjVk32gskzwaE6

Photo: The Democratic Phoenix Rises, 1901 political cartoon by artists Keppler and Schwartzmann

06/11/2024

Come say hi to several AFRU artists at this year's Risk/Reward Festival! Lyndsay Hogland is taking over the warehouse with Dead People's Sheets, Svetlana Trantastic is performing her new piece, and Simran Gleason / Slow Camera Paparazzi will be capturing it all on canvas. Theater, music, dance, film, clown, drag, and booze! What's not to like? June 21-23 at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Tickets are pay-what-you-will at risk-reward.org

Risk/Reward's Festival of New Performance is back for its 16th year and is bigger than ever! Ten different artists were selected to develop and present 20-mi...

03/08/2024

Come see your Auntie Svetty’s new show Friday March 15th starring Portland’s Premier Drag Clown Carla Rossi, and featuring Liberace and Liza!

03/04/2024

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Thank you in advance for reading about my story. I am reaching out to my community for support… Miranda Neubert needs your support for Miranda's Medical Bills

02/23/2024

ASK DR. CARLA is like a late night talk show except it's unlicensed therapy with unhinged drag queens! Join Carla and her enterprising receptionist Svetlana Trantastic, a full bar, liability waivers, and headliners David Saffert and Jillian Snow as Liberace and Liza: A Tribute, all at our inaugural session on Friday, March 15! Tickets at tomorrowtheater.org/movies/the-intersection-ask-dr-carla/ — at Tomorrow Theater.

02/08/2024

Two Calls for Artists, a 37' tall flaming carnival game, and unhinged drag queens! Check out our blog to see what the AFRU Family is up to!

Ministry of Stupid Ideas, Risk/Reward, PDX Pop Now!, Svetlana Trantastic

Hello, AFRU Supporters, and a happy National Fettuccine Alfredo Day to you all. That’s an actual thing! Actually today! We wanted to spread the news about some exciting goings on: First off, the Portland Winter Light Festival is in full swing, and you won’t want to miss out on the Ministry of St...

01/21/2024

https://www.afrugallery.org/post/auntie-svetty-s-astrological-and-life-advice-for-2024-my-most-depressing-column-ever

I’ve had trouble bringing myself to write this column. I am burned out. I want to numb out. I want my life to be more simple. I am an astrologer not an astro-physicist and that speaks something to the level of my intelligence. I do not have answers; I have advice. What good is this advice? Is pred...