This just in from our own Newspace Center for Photography! They're "currently soliciting proposals for image-based projects on the subject of gentrification, displacement and land-use in Portland." Given Portland's rental state of emergency—and given gentrification's unpleasant tendency to send creative communities scrambling to find affordable studio spaces—this seems like a good idea.

Newspace is partnering with c3:initiative on this particular project. Of the proposals, Newspace and c3:initiative will fund one for a joint low residency to carry out the proposal, with the final result on display during a nine-week exhibition during the summer of 2016. The proposals must also "incorporate several public programs," which, that seems like a pretty obvious thing to include when the subject is development and gentrification, but it bodes well for the project. The full call for proposals lives here.

Are you an artist who lives in Portland? Newspace's deadline is Monday, October 19.