Stelo

Join us for a special evening with Demian DinéYazhi at Stelo next Friday, October 20th

We're thrilled to host the book launch and reading of WE LEFT THEM NOTHING by the incredibly talented Demian DinéYazhí

📅 Date: Friday, October 20th
🕕 Time: 6PM doors, 6:30PM performances begin
📍 Venue: Stelo Arts, 412 NW 8th Avenue Portland, OR 97209
🔗 RSVP: Link in bio

Buy a book and show commitment to supporting this event and QTBIPOC artists!

-Performances by Joss Barton & Kevin Holden
-Reading by
-This event is presented in partnership with

We’re Open Late on First Thursday: Sept. 7, 5-8pm. Please, check out our current exhibition ASSEMBLY featuring Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Nicola Lopez, Anastasia Samoylova, Judith Wyss, Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulson.

ASSEMBLY is a three-location group show taking place at Stelo, & as part of Social Forms, Converge 45’s 2023 Biennial

August 24 - October 8, 2023

Open Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12-5pm and by appointment. STELO ARTS
412 NW 8TH AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97209 - Please, reach out if you or your group would like a tour of the exhibition.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by today for our opening event for Assembly! We are open Thursday-Sunday 12pm-5pm and By Appointment- Please, stop by. The exhibition runs through October 8th, 2023.

Converge45 curator and Stelo co-leader put the finishing touches on sculpture placement and lighting 🫶🏽💡

Save the Date! We’re ten days away from our opening event as part of - Join us on August 25th at 4:30pm. Full schedule for partner space openings on Slide 2 🙏🏽❤️

Please, click the 🔗 in our bio and visit the News section of our website to find our latest batch of posts celebrating the work that was a part of Una Palabra de Lucha by taking a look at the Neo Latino collective as a whole during their 20th anniversary year. Today we revel in the work of the collective’s members Lola Stanton, Gabriel Navar, Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo. Image 1: Screenshot of News section of steloarts.org featuring Lola Stanton, Gabriel Navar, Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo. Image 2: Screenshot of Lola Stanton artwork and bio. Image 3: Screenshot of Gabriel Navar artwork and bio. Image 4: Screenshot of Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo artwork and bio. All images courtesy the artists.

As we deinstall and celebrate the work that was a part of Una Palabra de Lucha, we’ll be taking a moment to celebrate the Neo Latino collective as a whole during their 20th anniversary year, and revel in the work of all the collective’s members. Please, click the 🔗 in our bio to read posts about each artist 🙏🏽❤️ Image 1: Screenshot of steloarts.org/blog featuring the work of Angélica Muñoz Cantaño, Ricardo Fonseca, & Rita Jimenez. Image 2: Screenshot of Angélica Muñoz Cantaño artwork and bio. Image 3: Screenshot of Ricardo Fonseca artwork and bio. Image 4: Screenshot of Rita Jimenez artwork and bio. All images courtesy the artists.

S O C I A L
F O R M S

Art as Global Citizenship

Stelo is pleased to partner with Converge 45 as one of the sites for ASSEMBLY, a multi-location group exhibition taking place as part of the 2023 biennial, Social Forms, running from August 24th to October 8th.

Rolling openings at Pearl District partner spaces will take place on August 25th
● 2:00pm: Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue at the Oregon Jewish Museum and
Center for Holocaust Education
● 2:30pm: Richard Mosse: Occidental exhibition viewing at Blue Sky
● 3:00pm: Amanda Ross Ho at ILY2
● 3:45pm: Assembly at Parallax Art Center
● 4:30pm: Assembly at Stelo
● 5:00pm: Assembly at PNCA

Gallery hours are Thursday - Sunday, 12-5 and by appointment

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ABOUT ASSEMBLY
Assembly brings together a diverse company of Portland-based and international artists across three venues located in Portland’s legendary Pearl District. These venues are the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Parallax Art Center and Stelo Arts. Long known as the city’s most prominent gallery district and home to a number of its more important arts institutions, the Pearl District has an extensive record of fomenting experimentation for Pacific Northwest artists, as well as playing host to select national and global artists.

A fundamental part of Converge 45’s project of putting artists and works of art-as-a-social-form into active conversation, this group exhibition explores, among other values, ideas of identity, representation, inclusion, citizenship, labor, landscape, cityscape, ecology, trade, regionalism and globalism, at a time when the very meanings of these terms are shifting. Because Converge 45 views its participating artists—to borrow a phrase from the Romantic poet Percy Bysse Shelley—as the unacknowledged legislators of the world, Assembly has designed this group show as a series of colloquies. Each features creators and their artworks dialoguing across geography and difference. When viewed from the vantage point of our age of intolerance, this presents as a model good in itself.

As we deinstall and celebrate the work that was a part of Una Palabra de Lucha, we’ll be taking a moment to celebrate the Neo Latino’s collective as a whole during their 20th anniversary year, and revel in the work of the collective’s other members. Please, click the 🔗 in our bio and visit the News section of our website to read in-depth artist bios for Luis Stephenberg Alers, Josephine Barreiro, Rodríguez Calero 🙏🏽❤️💯

MEET THE ARTIST: Júlia Sodré

Júlia Sodré is a Brazilian artist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work is confessional and driven by how trauma, family, and neurodiversity impact her interpersonal relationships. Sodré obsessively investigates her identity as a chronically lonely individual as she attempts to comprehend what it means to perpetually mourn the wasted potential for human connection.

Please, click the 🔗 in our bio to read an in depth Artist Biography about in the News section of our website 🙏🏽❤️ Image 1: Close up of Do You Feel Lonely Life I Do, paper flyers, photo by . Images 2 & 3: Gallery views of Una Palabra De Lucha featuring Do You Feel Lonely Life I Do, photos by

MEET THE ARTIST: Manu Torres

Manu Torres is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. His floral arrangements often involve a dialogue between the artificial and the natural, incorporating paper, fabric, paint, and feathers to imitate and exaggerate natural beauty in a hyperreal way. His work has been featured in Elle Decore magazine, who said, "Manu's exotic floral cocktails express the fullness of the Baroque style with a modern touch.“ He was also named by Domino magazine as 1 of the 4 new floral designers to follow. You can learn more about Manu by clicking the 🔗 in our bio. Image 1-3: Galletitas(2023), paper, fabric, metal, plants. Photos by

Join us along with our partners for ¡PACHANGA!