Peoples Art of Portland Gallery has been active since November 2010. It is a project of gallery spaces gifted to the curators from GGP, the management company for Pioneer Place Mall. Since its inception, the galleries have been well traveled; showing 1000’s of Portland artists in a very unique and professional setting (the now gallery, used to be an active and mod-designed toy store). Annual shows include “The Love of Portland”, “The Big 200” and resident international poster artist, EMEK. As of April 2012, the space next to Peoples Gallery is on permanent occupancy by local art legend Mark Woolley. Woolley joins the team in the top annex of Pioneer Place in Third Saturday openings, and adding his unique vision and flair to the Settlement Galleries Team (Peoples Art of Portland, Place Galleries and Mark Woolley at Pioneer). We love the mall and its accessibility to anyone the open market place allows. Art doesn’t have to be hard to see, or backed by immense white walls, it can be simple in its beauty and cultural appeal – it can be as easy as just walking into the mall.