Find community, gain experience, and join a network of artists on the local & national scale!
Since its inception:
The Third Room Committee has provided curatorial and press support, quality documentation and space for exhibitions and community crossover for over 50 artists, activists, organizers, collaborative groups, experimental musicians, poets, writers, and critical thinkers alike.
We have hosted visual art exhibitions, pop-up shops and events, concerts, critiques, reading groups, artist residencies, and free classes through FreeSchool PDX.
Third Room exists as an open studio for its members.
Committee members get the chance to shape a DIY artspace in a collaborative, supportive, critical and creative environment.
Members get to map out programming events and exhibitions, and can curate the shows they want to see in Portland.
You also get open access and use of the space, when there are no events happening, for your own personal use.
Because our committee is co-operative and collaboratively programmed, we serve several nuanced art communities and projects beyond a singular taste, mission or aesthetic.
Tenants for Healthy Collaboration (adapted from the Neighborhood Anarchist Collective’s Principles for organizing):
Social Anarchism – We primarily work from a vision of social Anarchism; a vision of shared resources and community support built around the empowerment of the individual and the decentralization of power.
Individual Sovereignty – You are the exclusive controller of your body, energy, and life. You contribute your energy on your own terms.
Mutual Aid – Acting together for shared benefit through the voluntary exchange of resources and services.
Distributed Power – No one has more power than anyone else. People work together on equal footing.
Direct action – Creating change or highlighting issues in a community without relying on government or other indirect methods to accomplish goals.
Love-Focused – We commit to a radical love ethic for our communities, our families, ourselves, and the earth.
Concrete Projects – We prioritize projects that: 1) Serve and educate the community; 2) Give people a sense of their own power; and, 3) Shift power from institutions and corporations to people and communities.
Collaboration – As social issues are bigger than any singular organization, we will work with other artists and communities when we share a common cause to create social change. We collaborate while staying focused on our core values, methods, and mission.
Empower Individuals – By giving people the creative space to experience and experiment with their personal power, as well as their ability to impact their community, we will fan the flame(s) of self-liberation inside the hearts of our community.
Build for the Long Term – Projects we take on will lay the foundation for a stronger organization and larger projects in the future, whether they are entirely successful or not.
Inclusivity – We welcome anyone interested in the mission and principles of this group.
Responsive – We value input from the community and want to respond directly to the needs and concerns of those around us. We accept responsibility for our actions as individuals and as a group.
Autonomy – Individual’s ideas and energies are important and encouraged. We are structured to limit any coercion or control that could interfere with a person’s rights of self direction and empowerment.
Joyous – In a world full of drudgery and fear, we bring playfulness and joy to our projects.
Find community, gain experience, and join a network of artists on the local & national scale!
Since its inception:
The Third Room Committee has provided curatorial and press support, quality documentation and space for exhibitions and community crossover for over 50 artists, activists, organizers, collaborative groups, experimental musicians, poets, writers, and critical thinkers alike.
We have hosted visual art exhibitions, pop-up shops and events, concerts, critiques, reading groups, artist residencies, and free classes through FreeSchool PDX.
Third Room exists as an open studio for its members.
Committee members get the chance to shape a DIY artspace in a collaborative, supportive, critical and creative environment.
Members get to map out programming events and exhibitions, and can curate the shows they want to see in Portland.
You also get open access and use of the space, when there are no events happening, for your own personal use.
Because our committee is co-operative and collaboratively programmed, we serve several nuanced art communities and projects beyond a singular taste, mission or aesthetic.
Tenants for Healthy Collaboration (adapted from the Neighborhood Anarchist Collective’s Principles for organizing):
Social Anarchism – We primarily work from a vision of social Anarchism; a vision of shared resources and community support built around the empowerment of the individual and the decentralization of power.
Individual Sovereignty – You are the exclusive controller of your body, energy, and life. You contribute your energy on your own terms.
Mutual Aid – Acting together for shared benefit through the voluntary exchange of resources and services.
Distributed Power – No one has more power than anyone else. People work together on equal footing.
Direct action – Creating change or highlighting issues in a community without relying on government or other indirect methods to accomplish goals.
Love-Focused – We commit to a radical love ethic for our communities, our families, ourselves, and the earth.
Concrete Projects – We prioritize projects that: 1) Serve and educate the community; 2) Give people a sense of their own power; and, 3) Shift power from institutions and corporations to people and communities.
Collaboration – As social issues are bigger than any singular organization, we will work with other artists and communities when we share a common cause to create social change. We collaborate while staying focused on our core values, methods, and mission.
Empower Individuals – By giving people the creative space to experience and experiment with their personal power, as well as their ability to impact their community, we will fan the flame(s) of self-liberation inside the hearts of our community.
Build for the Long Term – Projects we take on will lay the foundation for a stronger organization and larger projects in the future, whether they are entirely successful or not.
Inclusivity – We welcome anyone interested in the mission and principles of this group.
Responsive – We value input from the community and want to respond directly to the needs and concerns of those around us. We accept responsibility for our actions as individuals and as a group.
Autonomy – Individual’s ideas and energies are important and encouraged. We are structured to limit any coercion or control that could interfere with a person’s rights of self direction and empowerment.
Joyous – In a world full of drudgery and fear, we bring playfulness and joy to our projects.