2025 Limited Series

2025 Limited Series

6K

+18

mature themes

mature themes

Genres: Short Film, Documentary Style

Genres: Short Film, Documentary Style

This Show Is: Inquisitory, Emotional, Informative

This Show Is: Inquisitory, Emotional, Informative

E1 "What Makes RSG?"

E1 "What Makes RSG?"

This is what makes RSG.

This is what makes RSG.

What makes RSG? The question hovers over Portland’s downtown streets, through gallery halls, and in the quiet spaces where art meets its people.

What makes RSG? The question hovers over Portland’s downtown streets, through gallery halls, and in the quiet spaces where art meets its people.

What makes RSG? The question hovers over Portland’s downtown streets, through gallery halls, and in the quiet spaces where art meets its people.

What makes RSG? The question hovers over Portland’s downtown streets, through gallery halls, and in the quiet spaces where art meets its people.

In this episode, Chief Curator Brian Ferriso and RSG Manager Mark Tindel take us behind the scenes, revealing the forces that sustain the Rental Sales Gallery. The answer, they say, is the mission, the people behind the art behind the art, and the city itself, a city often misunderstood, a Downtown Portland that exists in shadow and light, in corners “they don’t show.”


Like many community-forward organizations, the Portland Art Museum and the Rental and Sales Gallery (RSG), are planted at the heart of the city to become more than buildings: they are experiential homes for art, for connection, for continuity.


By the end, the answer returns to its origin, folded back into the question: What makes RSG? A space, a mission, a city, and above all, the people behind the art, behind the art who carry it forward. That is, what makes RSG.

In this episode, Chief Curator Brian Ferriso and RSG Manager Mark Tindel take us behind the scenes, revealing the forces that sustain the Rental Sales Gallery. The answer, they say, is the mission, the people behind the art behind the art, and the city itself, a city often misunderstood, a Downtown Portland that exists in shadow and light, in corners “they don’t show.”


Like many community-forward organizations, the Portland Art Museum and the Rental and Sales Gallery (RSG), are planted at the heart of the city to become more than buildings: they are experiential homes for art, for connection, for continuity.


By the end, the answer returns to its origin, folded back into the question: What makes RSG? A space, a mission, a city, and above all, the people behind the art, behind the art who carry it forward. That is, what makes RSG.

In this episode, Chief Curator Brian Ferriso and RSG Manager Mark Tindel take us behind the scenes, revealing the forces that sustain the Rental Sales Gallery. The answer, they say, is the mission, the people behind the art behind the art, and the city itself, a city often misunderstood, a Downtown Portland that exists in shadow and light, in corners “they don’t show.”


Like many community-forward organizations, the Portland Art Museum and the Rental and Sales Gallery (RSG), are planted at the heart of the city to become more than buildings: they are experiential homes for art, for connection, for continuity.


By the end, the answer returns to its origin, folded back into the question: What makes RSG? A space, a mission, a city, and above all, the people behind the art, behind the art who carry it forward. That is, what makes RSG.

In this episode, Chief Curator Brian Ferriso and RSG Manager Mark Tindel take us behind the scenes, revealing the forces that sustain the Rental Sales Gallery. The answer, they say, is the mission, the people behind the art behind the art, and the city itself, a city often misunderstood, a Downtown Portland that exists in shadow and light, in corners “they don’t show.”


Like many community-forward organizations, the Portland Art Museum and the Rental and Sales Gallery (RSG), are planted at the heart of the city to become more than buildings: they are experiential homes for art, for connection, for continuity.


By the end, the answer returns to its origin, folded back into the question: What makes RSG? A space, a mission, a city, and above all, the people behind the art, behind the art who carry it forward. That is, what makes RSG.

Featured in this Episode

Featured in this Episode

Featured in this Episode

Brian Ferriso

Brian Ferriso

Brian Ferriso

Director & Chief Curator

Director & Chief Curator

Director & Chief Curator

Mark Tindel

Mark Tindel

Mark Tindel

Head of Rental Sales Gallery

Head of Rental Sales Gallery

Head of Rental Sales Gallery

“Because when art is no longer held by people, it begins to float—disconnected, aestheticized, and ultimately, forgettable.”

“Because when art is no longer held by people, it begins to float—disconnected, aestheticized, and ultimately, forgettable.”

“Because when art is no longer held by people, it begins to float—disconnected, aestheticized, and ultimately, forgettable.”

“Because when art is no longer held by people, it begins to float—disconnected, aestheticized, and ultimately, forgettable.”