Ditch Projects

Ditch Projects Ditch Projects is a nonprofit artist-founded, artist-run studio, exhibition, and performance space p

Established in 2008, Ditch Projects is an artist run space housed in a decommissioned lumber mill near downtown Springfield, Oregon. Ditch Projects is operated by a group of artists and art educators committed to exhibiting contemporary art that is of a critical, conceptual, and/or interdisciplinary nature. Ditch Projects serves its community by encouraging and facilitating meaningful dialogue bet

ween international, national, and local artists. By providing opportunities for research and conceptual experimentation, Ditch Projects supports the practices of emerging and established artists from this region and beyond. An active agent within Oregon's cultural community, Ditch Projects provides a platform to artists producing challenging and innovative work in diverse media, cultivates a network of like-minded individuals, groups, and organizations, and stimulates public interest in contemporary art.

04/30/2026

Auction is live! Bid on works by Ditch-affiliated artists, even if you can’t make it to the event in person. Link in bio ➡️

Gesture Incantations: Occultum Limp Wristusses and Some of our Monuments by Andrew Douglas Campbell!Open HoursSat + Sun ...
04/11/2026

Gesture Incantations: Occultum Limp Wristusses and Some of our Monuments by Andrew Douglas Campbell!
Open Hours
Sat + Sun 12-4
On View
March 7 - April 12, 2026

Thank you for coming to the opening of Gesture Incantations: Occultum Limp Wristusses and Some of our Monuments by Andre...
03/14/2026

Thank you for coming to the opening of
Gesture Incantations: Occultum Limp Wristusses and Some of our Monuments by Andrew Douglas Campbell!

Open Hours
Sat + Sun 12–4

On View
March 7 - April 12, 2026

Opening Saturday! Reception 5–7.Andrew Douglas CampbellGesture Incantations: Occultum Limp Wristusses& Some of our Monum...
03/06/2026

Opening Saturday! Reception 5–7.

Andrew Douglas Campbell
Gesture Incantations: Occultum Limp Wristusses
&
Some of our Monuments

On View
March 7 - April 12, 2026

Gesture Incantations: Occultum Limp WristussesAndrew Douglas CampbellOn ViewMarch 7 - April 12, 2026Opening Reception Sa...
03/04/2026

Gesture Incantations: Occultum Limp Wristusses
Andrew Douglas Campbell

On View
March 7 - April 12, 2026

Opening Reception
Saturday, March 7
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Visit ‘The Whisperers’ this weekend at Ditch ProjectsOpen 12pm- 4pm, Sat & Sun Curated by Tannaz Farsi and Simone Ciglia...
02/12/2026

Visit ‘The Whisperers’ this weekend at Ditch Projects
Open 12pm- 4pm, Sat & Sun

Curated by Tannaz Farsi and Simone Ciglia

Noor Abuarafeh
Disobedience Archive
Shadi Harouni
Laura Larson
MoRE
Zora Murff
Gala Porras-Kim
Wendy Red Star
Service Works
Stephanie Syjuco

12/07/2025
Nov 1st - Nov 30th‘Book of Monsters’Rowan Buffington & Matt GreenwellOPENING: NOV 1st 5-7pm  David and Marian Fairchild’...
11/01/2025

Nov 1st - Nov 30th
‘Book of Monsters’
Rowan Buffington & Matt Greenwell
OPENING: NOV 1st 5-7pm


David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914), from which Buffington and Greenwell borrow the title of this exhibition, comprises a series of protoscientific photographs of insects. The extreme close-up images serve a dual purpose: as documentary evidence suitable for scientific analysis, and as a protracted treatise on the fundamental alterity of insects. The Fairchilds explain: “…the flies which leave a colony of germs at every footstep will not much longer be tolerated, indeed, every creature that bites and sucks our food and dishes has been placed under suspicion.” The photographic analysis of these insects is an extension of a colonial mindset that seeks to contain, control, and dominate that which refuses to be assimilated.
The exhibition Book of Monsters examines these images against the backdrop of avant-garde artistic production. Buffington and Greenwell challenge conventional notions of normalcy that have been and remain central to nationalist and totalitarian logics. Collage and printmaking were instrumental to shaping the political consciousness of the early 20th century, serving as a vital form of resistance against fascistic imperatives. Fascism is once again on the rise, and we find ourselves in a directly analogous position to artists of the historic avant-garde.

Opening Reception : Saturday, Nov 1st, 5-7pm  ‘Braiding a Current’Dru Donovan&Joel W. FisherOn view : Nov 1st - Nov 30th...
10/31/2025

Opening Reception : Saturday, Nov 1st, 5-7pm


‘Braiding a Current’
Dru Donovan
&
Joel W. Fisher
On view : Nov 1st - Nov 30th

What happens when two artists, collaborators, partners, and parents to young children, turn their attention toward the same moment, the same scene, the same bodies, and make pictures? Braiding a Current emerges not as stasis nor a timeline, but as a current; one that doubles back on itself, layers perspectives, and pulls forward small moments that feel irretrievable even as they are made.

Applications for the 2025 Ditch Market are now open. Link in our bio
10/04/2025

Applications for the 2025 Ditch Market are now open. Link in our bio

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303 S 5th Street, Ste 165
Springfield, OR
97477

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