Big Yard Studio: The Academy

Big Yard Studio: The AcademyAugust 29, 2025 | PDX Contemporary Art Gallery

This year’s Big Yard Studio returns with The Academy, an exhibition that explores the powerful parallels between athletics and creativity. Hosted at the PDX Contemporary Art Gallery, this experience invites the community to witness how discipline, imagination, resilience, and expression live at the intersection of sport and art.

Through visual installations, storytelling, sound, and movement, The Academy highlights the shared language between the field and the studio—where effort meets elegance, and where personal journeys become collective inspiration. Rooted in The Big Yard’s mission to nurture physical wellness, education, and creativity, this showcase reminds us that both athletes and artists are dreamers, builders, and storytellers.

The Academy is more than an art show—it's a celebration of identity, purpose, and the unspoken bond between motion and meaning.

Host or Publisher Big Yard Foundation