Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College

Thank you .costello and for this thoughtful response to our current group show IF: Kristan Kennedy, Corita Kent, Hilda Morris. Viewing hours: 12-5 Thursday through Sunday.

launches today with at 6 in Eliot Chapel

Simon Denny, Dotcom Seance, 2021 is installed in the Performing Arts Building at Reed College for Reed Arts Weekend 2026 this weekend only.

Thank you and for highlighting our current show IF. Viewing hours Thursday to Sunday 12-5pm.

IF, an exhibition of works from the Reed College art collection, opens with a reception this Saturday, February 21 from 1 to 4 PM.

A.N.G.L.D.S.T., 2017

It’s TEXILE MONTH in Portland! Freddie Robins—Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts, will be knitting in her exhibition at the Cooley from 12 to 4 pm Friday October 3. She welcomes your company! Bring your knitting or crochet. Robins’s exhibition APOTROPAIC, is part of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s 2025 TBA Festival. As the Cooley farewells its current director Stephanie Snyder we want to acknowledge PICA and our many amazing collaborators in this community. It’s such a strange and hard time let’s remember to find strength, power, and gratitude in one another!

Are you, in fact, afraid of the soft stuff? ☁️ If not, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery invites you to be our guest this Tuesday, September 30th for an artist talk with at the chapel in Eliot Hall @ 6:30pm.

The talk will be immediately followed by a reception in the Cooley gallery, both in celebration of Robins’ new exhibition as well as the storied career of longtime Cooley Director, Stephanie Snyder. Grab some refreshments, imbibe the body of work, and join us in toasting .snyder.curator !🥂

Please join us for a talk by celebrated UK textile artist Freddie Robins, September 30, 6:30 p.m. in Reed Chapel, Eliot Hall followed by a celebration at the Cooley Gallery.

The talk is on the occasion of Robins’ solo exhibition, Apotropaic, currently on view at the Cooley Gallery through December 18. Viewing hours are Thursday through Sunday 12-5pm.

Over the last thirty years, celebrated British textile artist Freddie Robins has garnered a reputation as a “radical” knitter—a conceptual materialist whose handmade objects and assemblages are as political as they are humorous, and spiritual. Robins explains: “Knitting is my way of interpreting and coming to terms with the world that I inhabit. It sits between my internal world and the physical world, like a form of comfort, or rather, discomfort. My knitting practice questions conformity and notions of normality. I use knitting to explore both contemporary gender and the human condition.”
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We’re partnering with to profile artists from their 2025 TBA festival. Next up, Essex and London-based Freddie Robins (). ⁠
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In response to the question “When did your artistic journey begin and what was the spark?” Freddie wrote:⁠
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“The spark was my godmother, my mother’s childhood friend, Pamela Darking. She was an amazing dressmaker, having grown up with a father who was a tailor. She was skilled in all sorts of textiles processes but she didn’t work with any of them professionally. She made all of my, my sister’s, and my mother’s clothes. She made us versions of things that we wanted to buy but couldn’t afford. She passed many of her skills on to me. I adored her. She was a single, independent woman so I viewed the making of textiles and clothes as the activities of a contemporary woman.” ⁠
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Image: View of Freddie Robins’ Studio, Essex, England, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist.⁠

▶️ Read the full Q&A at the link in bio, and join us Tuesday, Sept. 30 for a talk with artist✨

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📢 FINAL DAY of TBA:25 Schedule 📢

🪢 12 PM – 5 PM at the Cooley Gallery: Freddie Robins, “Apotropaic”
🎡 4 PM at PICA: Good Dang Weekend 2, a bingo game fundraiser for Elbow Room

🔁REPOST from :What does it mean to present an artwork that is conceived to change and evolve over time and context? This panel discussion brings together six curators who have been part of Will Rawls’ [siccer] — from its original commission to the realization of its various presentations in museums and art organizations across the country. Using [siccer] as a case study, the curators will discuss how exhibitions are created and then adapted to the specificities of different spaces and the priorities for community engagement for each venue. The curators will reflect upon the beauty and challenges of iterative artistic and curatorial processes.

Curators: Katy Dammers, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts, REDCAT; Kristan Kennedy, Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Cynthia Post Hunt, Curator, Performance, The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, ICA LA; Lumi Tan, independent curator and writer; and Tara Aisha Willis, Getty Research Institute African American Art History Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow.

Moderator: Anne Ellegood, Executive Director, ICA LA.

Tonight! May 4 at 8pm in the Reed College Chapel. Free and open to the public!

RAW’s Peripheral Forms is only two weeks away! We are happy to introduce one of this year’s guest artists, Pepper Pepper (@thepepperpepper). “So spice, they named her twice—Pepper Pepper is a multimedia performance artist and writer. Their work explores the comedy and vulnerability of life through a surreal filter of magic, history, and technology.” Pepper Pepper will be performing “Drag Animism and the Cyborg Sissy” on MAY 4th at 8 PM in Reed’s Chapel. More information to come! Photos by Pepper Pepper.