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Friendtorship seeks to increase access to design and arts learning, and to college and careers in art and design for underserved, at risk teens.
Check out our projects, lessons and activities. Friendtorship brings together Portland State University art and design students and high school students from Centennial Learning Center to collaborate on creative projects, build strong relationships, and have fun. Friendtorship.org
12/03/2025
✨ 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. ✨
✨ Friendtorship Exhibition – December 3 ✨
Come celebrate our PSU.GD ✕ Walt Morey Middle School collab on Tuesday, December 3! We’re hosting a special showcase of artwork created through a mentorship between middle schoolers and PSU design students.
Inspired by artist Marie Watt—whose work honors storytelling, community, and everyday materials—students explored memory, mythology, and connection through:
🖨️ collagraph prints
🪡 sewn “magical” everyday objects
🌟 imaginative origin stories + companion species
Together, they imagined themselves as beings building a shared world—and we can’t wait to share what they’ve made.
📅 Tuesday, December 3
📍 College of Education Vanport Building – 4th Floor
📍 Fariborz Maseeh Hall – 2nd Floor
⏰ 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Come celebrate creativity, collaboration, and the power of community. 💛
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11/22/2025
Coming Together, Stitch by Stitch💭
Our Friendtorship mentors and mentees from Walt Morey Middle School explore the art of sewing! Students recreated everyday objects through a mythical lens and worked together to create a tapestry honoring the little things that shape us.
There’s nothing like watching a print reveal. 😭💛
Our Friendtorship Our mentees jumped into collagraphs— layering materials, testing textures, and learning by doing. Proud of every single print that came through the press. So much joy, mess, and magic in the studio. 🖨️💙
11/14/2025
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.
11/10/2025
Art, ink, and a whole lot of connection 💭
Our Friendtorship mentors and mentees from Walt Morey Middle School visited the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to explore Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt — a celebration of memory, making, and the threads that tie us together.
Back in the studio, we rolled up our sleeves for collagraph prints, creativity, and shared laughter!
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09/16/2025
05/19/2025
Friendtorship presents Just Play, a collaboration between Walt Morey Middle School and PSU Art, Design, and Athletics. Join us for an exhibition and interactive games on June 4th 11:30-1:30 at the PSU
02/16/2025
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.
02/14/2025
Walt Morey Middle School and PSU mentors!
02/12/2025
PSU Design mentors Walt Morey Middle School exploring color, art and design through fabric banners, shadow boxes, and collage inspired by Coloring Outside the Lines exhibition at the and thank you and ❤️❤️ with and
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Friendtorship is built on a foundation of creative collaboration and strong personal friendships. The program aims to increase access to design and arts learning for underserved high school students, empowering them to engage in experiential creative processes that better their communities. The personal relationships that develop between the university and high school students are fundamental to the active engagement that drives the program.
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