Ditch Projects

Ditch Projects is a nonprofit artist-founded, artist-run studio, exhibition, and performance space p

Established in 2008, Ditch Projects is an artist run space housed in a decommissioned lumber mill near downtown Springfield, Oregon. Ditch Projects is operated by a group of artists and art educators committed to exhibiting contemporary art that is of a critical, conceptual, and/or interdisciplinary nature. Ditch Projects serves its community by encouraging and facilitating meaningful dialogue bet

ween international, national, and local artists. By providing opportunities for research and conceptual experimentation, Ditch Projects supports the practices of emerging and established artists from this region and beyond. An active agent within Oregon's cultural community, Ditch Projects provides a platform to artists producing challenging and innovative work in diverse media, cultivates a network of like-minded individuals, groups, and organizations, and stimulates public interest in contemporary art.

07/24/2024

7/25
Matchess
featuring:
Haley Fohr,
Jenny Pulse
&
Alan Sparhawk

Thursday
July 25
@
7pm

Attendance is free and open to the public

($10 Donations are accepted, appreciated, and go to the performers)

07/19/2024

Matchess
featuring:
Haley Fohr,
Jenny Pulse
&
Alan Sparhawk

Thursday
July 25
@
7pm

05/15/2024

2024
MFA
Terminal Project Exhibitions
Round 2
May 17th - May 26th, 2024
Opening Reception 5 – 7pm, Friday, May 17th

Christian Alvarado
Conner Gordon .gordon
Ellen O’Shea

05/01/2024

2024
MFA
Terminal
Project
Exhibitions
Round 1
May 3rd - May 12th, 2024
Opening Reception 5 – 7pm, Friday, May 3rd
.osric

04/20/2024

!!!TONIGHT!!!
DITCH PROJECT’S
16YR ANNIVERSARY AUCTION
SATURDAY, APRIL 20th | 5-8pm
The 16yr Anniversary Benefit will be held on Saturday, April 20th and will include works by over 30 artists, food by Yardy Rum Bar and dessert by Noisette. We encourage you to fully embrace the Ditch experience by attending the event and participating in the silent auction.

Tickets are on sale and will be available through the night of the event. Spots are limited, so be sure to get yours before they are gone!

04/19/2024

TOMORROW! Online auction open now! Click link in profile or DitchProjects.com for more info.
We will be featuring the work of select regionally, nationally, and internationally renowned artists that have exhibited at Ditch. The funds raised will directly support Ditch Projects in its mission of exhibiting contemporary art and supporting artists.

The 16yr Anniversary Benefit will be held on Saturday, April 20th and will include works by over 30 artists, food by Yardy Rum Bar and dessert by Noisette. We encourage you to fully embrace the Ditch experience by attending the event and participating in the silent auction.

Tickets are on sale and will be available through the night of the event. Spots are limited, so be sure to get yours before they are gone!

When: Saturday April 20, 2024
5 – 8 PM

Where: 303 S. 5th Ave #165
Springfield OR 97477

04/11/2024

Tickets for our annual Ditch Art Auction fundraiser are now available online.
See DitchProjects.com for more info.

04/07/2024

Last weekend to see: Martha Daghlian ‘The Great Art of Knowing’
open tomorrow noon-4pm
(Images now available on DitchProjects.com)

04/01/2024

Friday, April 5th at 7pm Internationally recognized artist B. Wurtz continues to pursue making visual art, but in the last several years, he has returned to a passion he has had since being a small child: making music. This led to him recording an album in 2020, Some Songs, which was produced by Harlan Steinberger at Hen House Studios in Venice, California. Now that same collaboration has led to the release of a second album, Under The Sky. B. Wurtz will be performing Ann Bobco.
Attendance is free and open to the public

Donations are accepted, appreciated, and
go to the performers.

03/23/2024

SAVE THE DATE!!
Ditch Projects annual fundraiser April 20th at 5pm. Tickets available soon.

03/22/2024

Gallery hours Friday-Sunday, 12-4!

03/21/2024

Thanks to everyone for coming out to the Walkthrough-Talkthroigh with & with

Glen Baldridge & Louise Sheldon
‘Doors in Floors’
March 16 -April 7th

‘The exhibition represents a journey through the unknown. While Baldridge’s works hint at hidden depths and secret chambers of the mind, Sheldon offers a passage to somewhere mystical, somewhere otherworldly. Their combined narrative is a complex tapestry, weaving the subterranean with the supernatural, the seen with the unseen.’ -Alex Dodge ( )

(Read more at DitchProjects.com)

03/04/2024

Martha Daghlian “The Great Art of Knowing
March 16 -April 7th

Exhibition Reception: Saturday, March 16th, 5-7pm

“We are the ones who, by putting the past to a certain use, put it in a certain order...What I am describing is a specifically transhistorical dialectic, one that invents the critic as Friedrich Schlegel’s historian, that is, a prophet facing backwards.” (Marjorie Levinson, “Thinking Through Poetry”)
“The Great Art of Knowing” is an exhibition of new multimedia work by Martha Daghlian, with forthcoming text by Kaya Noteboom.

03/02/2024

Glen Baldridge & Louise Sheldon
‘Doors in Floors’
March 16 -April 7th

Exhibition Reception: Saturday, March 16th, 5-7pm

‘The exhibition represents a journey through the unknown. While Baldridge’s works hint at hidden depths and secret chambers of the mind, Sheldon offers a passage to somewhere mystical, somewhere otherworldly. Their combined narrative is a complex tapestry, weaving the subterranean with the supernatural, the seen with the unseen.’ -Alex Dodge ( )

(Read more at DitchProjects.com)

02/03/2024

Reception TONIGHT (Sat 2/3)! 5-7pm
&&&2

Ditch Projects is pleased to present &&&2, a bi-coastal exhibition that serves as both a survey and sequel to the collaborations of Ethan Greenbaum, David Kennedy Cutler and Sara Greenberger Rafferty.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of &&&, Sun You has invited Greenberger & Greenbaum & Cutler to mount simultaneous exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY ( ) and Ditch Projects in Springfield, OR. The exhibitions at both artist-run spaces feature a backdrop that wraps the gallery with deconstructed pages from the original &&& book, over which the artists have installed works from 2013 and 2023. The original book is also exhibited, as well as a new portfolio of prints (&&&2) to celebrate ten fruitful years of collaboration, hand wringing and friendship.

01/30/2024

***RECEPTION THIS SATURDAY! ***
Exhibition Reception
Saturday, February 3rd, 5-7pm

Sun You
Melodramatic Soul Crushing Saturday Morning
Jan 13 - Feb 11

Opening reception
Saturday, January 13th, 5-7pm

ALSO on view in conjunction with TSA New York
‘ &&&2’
Ethan Greenbaum, David Kennedy Cutler and Sara Greenberger Rafferty

01/26/2024

Sun You
‘Melodramatic Soul Crushing Saturday Morning’ Documentation of the show is now available for viewing on DitchProjects.com
The show is up Jan 13 - Feb 11.
Ditch Projects is open Fri-Sun, noon-4pm

01/12/2024

Coming Up!
Dan Devening in Conversation: Independent and Artist-Run Spaces

Ditch Projects
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
303 S. 5th Ave #165
Springfield OR 97477
*Free and open to the public

Panel discussion with Dan Devening of Devening Projects (Chicago) with Mike Bray , Derek Franklin and , and Sun You

How do artists approach creating exhibition spaces? Why do they get started? How do they keep going? Join us for this wide-ranging conversation about artist-run exhibition spaces of all sizes, models, that span the country.

Followed by gallery reception at 5pm for Sun You’s solo and curated exhibitions

Dan Devening is an artist, educator, curator, writer and gallerist based in Chicago. He’s currently Professor, Adj. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art Theory and Practice for 15 years and held full-time teaching positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of New Mexico. His paintings, works on paper and installations have been shown extensively including recent exhibitions in New York at Geary Contemporary, Launch F18, Apex Art and Printed Matter, Inc among other national venues. His essays and reviews have been featured in several recent publications including “Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy and Purpose” edited by Zoë Charlton and Tim Doud and “Clay Pop, What’s New in Clay.” Devening currently owns and directs Devening Projects, a gallery project featuring exhibitions by emerging and established artists.
Critical Conversations is part of The Ford Family Foundation’s Visual Arts Program. It provides a collective space for artists and cultural producers that is rooted in exchange and inquiry. The program is led by the University of Oregon Department of Art’s Center for Art Research (CFAR) with collaborators Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College and Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University..

Address

303 S 5th Street, Ste 165
Springfield, OR
97477

Opening Hours

12pm - 4pm

Website

http://www.ditchprojects.com/

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