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The deadline for applications for the next Art/Lab Cohort is midnight this coming Saturday August 30th…. If you are a Jewish artist or know someone who is, now’s the time! Artists consistently tell us what a powerful experience their time in Art/Lab was. Don’t miss out.  Go to artlabpdx.org for the application. 

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Today  I’m joined by Shir Ly Grisanti, an artist, curator, and cultural leader whose work lives right at the intersection of art, ecology, and Jewish values. Shir has spent over a decade building projects that bring people together through creativity and conversation.

In 2012, she founded c3:initiative in Portland, a nonprofit designed not just to display art but to steward resources and solidarity with artists and partner organizations working on some of the hardest social questions of our time.

At the same time, Shir and their husband Laurence are the stewards of Camp Colton, an 85-acre woodland in rural Oregon. Together they’ve turned this former camp into a place of rewilding and restoration, planting thousands of trees and nurturing a fragile ecosystem back to health, while also hosting gatherings, retreats, and cultural programs

And on top of all of this - or undergirding it? - Shir is herself an artist. She was part of the Second Art/Lab Shir’s work is guided by a “dual–nondual” vision: a sense that everything is interconnected, that we are always in relationship—with ancestors, with traditions, with the land, and with each other. 

Enjoy my conversation with Shir Grisanti.

Show Notes:

artlabpdx.org

• Shir's website:  shirgrisanti.com

• Stelo – steloarts.org

• c3:initiative – c3initiative.org

• Camp Colton – campcolton.com

• Andrea Gibson – andreagibson.org
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass – Milkweed Editions

• Sonia Sanford’s Cookbook Braids (for the challah recipe!) – soniasanford.com/cookbook