Upcoming Events
Bigleaf Maple Dinner
Join us for a special evening dedicated to celebrating Oregon’s Bigleaf Maple trees and supporting continued sugaring at Camp Colton!
Summer Solstice Dinner Party
The 2nd in our Seasonal Dinner Series, join us in celebrating the longest day of the year with us at Camp! We will be enjoying a seasonal five-course meal, and the nature that surrounds us.
The Temple Of Belonging | Women's Retreat
The Annual Gathering
The Temple of Belonging Bio-Regional Gathering is a transformative four-night, five-day experience that celebrates the essence of women-powered community and culture.
Immerse yourself in a space where women can reconnect with themselves, each other, and the source that powers us all in a nurturing and intimate setting.
This all-inclusive event invites women to share in all aspects of life, providing a retreat from the world where women are at the heart of the community, where they inherently belong.
We offer over four days of soulful programming, including dedicated spaces for mothers and children, morning yoga and meditation, ritual and ceremonies, home-cooked meals, hiking and camping under the cedars, a healing arts spa, evening songs by the fire, and even a makers marketplace!
Being surrounded by women for four and a half days is a rare and extraordinary experience that leaves you changed in the best way possible.
The gathering is designed to be fun and empowering, allowing you to be as active or relaxed as you wish. Everything is an invitation, and you are trusted to enjoy this time in a way that best suits your needs.
Discover more details below and join us for the Pacific Northwest's most cherished women's gathering, The Temple of Belonging.
Autumn Equinox dinner party
The 3rd in our Seasonal Dinner Series, we will be gathering to celebrate the Autumn Equinox. Join us for good food, connection, nature, and community.
(SOLD out) Spring Equinox Dinner party
Join us for a special evening honoring Spring - Light, Regeneration, and Growth.
NORTHWEST Kominka + Yakisugi Festival
Join us for a day-long celebration and exploration of Japanese folk houses, traditional joinery, yakisugi (charred cedar siding) and culture at Camp Colton!
2023 Love, Oregon Micro-Festival
Tickets are now available for the 2023 Love, Oregon micro-festival, celebrating what unites us as Oregonians - great food, live music, and unparalleled outdoor spaces.
Prepare yourself for a memorable weekend of discovery and connection, guided by a hand-curated festival menu created by Chef Keith Bidwell and a team of dedicated local farmers to highlight the richness of Oregon’s seasonal bounty. The vibrant tastes will be perfectly paired with an immersive lineup of live music from Oregon artists, engaging workshops, and fun-filled activities that truly encapsulate the spirit of Oregon.
Your Early Bird ticket gives you full access to Camp Colton’s 80-acre natural playground, sustainably sourced meals, wine tastings, musical performances, and a wealth of educational and recreational experiences. Along with the thrill of tent camping on-site, we also offer options for cabins, yurts, RVs, and car camping.
The festival program has something for everyone:
Immerse yourself in the calming blend of yoga and breathwork in the tranquility of our lush meadow
Participate in engaging workshops on psilocybin’s evolving impact, sustainable farming practices, and food forest cultivation
Take a miraculous barefoot journey through the woods or a leisurely walk with our friendly goats
Unearth the hidden treasures of Love, Oregon in a delightful scavenger hunt
Tap into your inner artist with workshops on songwriting and WildCrafts
Enjoy intimate music showcases, jam sessions, and musical walks featuring Oregon artists
Indulge in wine tastings and teachings, and be a part of our communal feast
2023 Menu (included in ticket price)
Friday Night Family Meal
Kenai Red Fish Co. sockeye salmon, grilled over mesquite wood on cedar planks and topped with an herby charred onion chimichurri
Salt roasted potatoes tossed with garlic, lemon zest, parsley, and Durant olive oil
Grilled corn on the cob with chili lime butter
Charred summer vegetables with honey miso vinaigrette
Fresh mixed salad greens, shaved summer vegetables, and sherry vinaigrette
Saturday Brunch
Cast iron baked frittata with roasted summer veg., local pasture raised eggs, gruyere
Cast iron baked frittata with local pasture raised sausage, braised summer greens, pasture raised eggs, gruyere
Smoked paprika roasted red potatoes with roasted red pepper aioli
Summer fruit salad with citrus zest and mint
An assortment of baked summer fruit pastry
Saturday Night Family Meal
Aardvark Jerk marinated Champoeg free range chicken, slowly grilled over hardwood charcoal with stone fruit salsa.
Baked beans with Sun Gold Farms navy beans and a smokey tomato BBQ sauce.
Summer potato salad with an herby green goddess dressing
Spicy summer slaw w/red & green cabbage, pickled peppers & cilantro vinaigrette
Fresh mixed salad greens, shaved summer vegetables, and cider vinaigrette
Sunday Brunch
Cast iron baked spanish tortilla with potato, chorizo, kale, onion and cheese
Cast iron baked spanish tortilla with potato, kale, fennel, onion and cheese
Stewed chickpeas with tomato, fennel, and confit onion
Summer fruit salad with citrus zest and mint
An assortment of baked summer fruit pastry
Bigleaf Maple Dinner
Join us for a special evening dedicated to celebrating Oregon’s Bigleaf Maple trees and supporting continued sugaring at Camp Colton!
comMunity day: Session IV
Join us to meet our session four Print + Paper artist-in-residence, Anie Toole, and take part in other fun activities at this free community event!
Camp Colton is excited to be partnering once again with our nonprofit sister organization in Portland, Stelo, to offer 2-week artist residencies in our papermaking and letterpress printmaking studios. Learn more about the residencies HERE.
Come for all or part of the afternoon to enjoy these activities with friends and neighbors:
12:00 pm - Gates open - Guests are invited to arrive and stroll the campus, or enjoy lunch or snacks from Kristy’s Down Home Cooking food truck at the Gathering Hall
1:15 pm - Artist talk by Anie Toole (see bio below)
2:00 pm - Walking tours of Camp Colton with historical narrative from Camp's Co-Owners, Shir and Laurence Grisanti
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Hands-on demonstrations and work samples in the print & papermaking studios
Our thoughtfully restored, ADA accessible Gathering Hall will have tables and chairs set up for you to enjoy your lunch and the artists’ talks.
Guests are welcome to join in for all activities, or just pick and choose. No tickets or RSVP are necessary.
About the printmaking artist-in-residence:
Weaving and natural dye are at the core of Anie Toole’s transdisciplinary studio practice that extends into printmaking, clay, and sound explorations. Her work materializes translanguaging through craft-based practices and research. Currently based in Quebec City, she holds an MFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, a Fine Craft diploma in Constructed Textiles from La Maison des métiers d’art de Québec, and a BSc Honours in Mathematics from the University of Ottawa. She exhibits across North America and was awarded residencies at Penland School of Craft and Vermont Studio Center.
comMunity day: Session III
Join us to meet our session three Print + Paper artists-in-residence, Vivian Sming and Jenene Nagy at this free community event!
Camp Colton is excited to be partnering once again with our nonprofit sister organization in Portland, Stelo, to offer 2-week artist residencies in our papermaking and letterpress printmaking studios. Learn more about the residencies HERE.
Come for all or part of the afternoon to enjoy these activities with friends and neighbors:
12:00 pm - Gates open - Guests are invited to arrive and stroll the campus, or grab a snack at the Gathering Hall
1:15 pm - Artist talks by Jenene and Vivian. (see bios below)
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Demonstrations and work samples in the paper and print studios
PLEASE NOTE: Kristy’s Food Truck is no longer going to be on site during this event.
Guests are welcome to join in for all activities, or just pick and choose. No tickets or RSVP are necessary.
About the papermaking artist-in-residence:
Vivian Sming is an artist-publisher based in the Bay Area, who produces a wide range of artists’ books through their publishing studio Sming Sming Books. Formed in 2017, the studio experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Sming is invested in creating books from practices that are challenging to represent on paper, and is committed to promoting critical discourse and advancing cultural equity through the format of publishing.
About the printmaking artist-in-residence:
Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in the Inland Empire. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues in Los Angeles, Portland, New York, and Berlin. Her work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, the Oregon Arts Commission, Colorado Creative Industries, the Ford Family Foundation and in 2016 a nomination for the United States Artist Fellowship. Nagy's work is held in several permanent collections including the Portland Art Museum and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is one half of the curatorial team TILT Export:, an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues to produce exhibitions. From 2011-12 she was the first Curator-in-Residence for Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon.
community day: Session II
Join us to meet our session two Print + Paper artists-in-residence, Kristi Chan and V. Maldonado, and take part in other fun activities at this free community event!
Camp Colton is excited to be partnering once again with our nonprofit sister organization in Portland, Stelo, to offer 2-week artist residencies in our papermaking and letterpress printmaking studios. Learn more about the residencies HERE.
Come for all or part of the afternoon to enjoy these activities with friends and neighbors:
12:00 pm - Gates open - Guests are invited to arrive and stroll the campus, or enjoy lunch purchased from our food trucks at the Gathering Hall
1:15 pm - Artist talks in Camp Colton's historic chapel by Kristi and V. (see bios below)
2:00 pm - Walking tours of Camp Colton with co-owner and Lead Re-wilder Shir Ly Grisanti
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Demonstrations and work samples in the paper and print studios
Our thoughtfully restored Gathering Hall will have tables and chairs set up for you to enjoy lunch or snacks available for purchase from Kellan’s Dogs and Bobablastic .
Guests are welcome to join in for all activities, or just pick and choose. No tickets or RSVP are necessary.
About the papermaking artist-in-residence:
Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan is a first generation Malaysian-Chinese artist, writer, and educator from the American South. Her work examines the material memory of the landscape and the excluded histories of the displaced Chinese diaspora. She researches the political, historical, and environmental heritage of the landscape and its material elements, incorporating their elemental properties into her processes. Working across disciplines, she combines experimental alternative photographic processes and ceramics with video projection and archival photography. She is deeply fascinated by how the not so distant histories of racial exclusion, erasure, and extractive environmental capitalism lay the foundation for everyday, lived contemporary experiences of the Asian American diaspora. By untangling the roots of our origins, her work seeks to revive and reckon with lost histories and lives, and their implications on race and environment, so that by knowing where we come from, we can envision a new future for ourselves.
About the printmaking artist-in-residence:
V. Maldonado is a multidisciplinary artist, freelance curator, and writer who lives and works in Portland, OR. Born in 1976 in Changuitirio, Michoacan, Mexico, Maldonado grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California in a family of migrant field laborers. They received their BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Art (2000), their MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (2005), and is exclusively represented by Froelick Gallery, Portland OR. Maldonado’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR. Deploying both traditional media including painting, printmaking and drawing alongside contemporary strategies such as performance, installation and intervention, Maldonado expresses the power of identity to author experience and perception.
community day: Session I
Join us to meet our session one Print + Paper artists-in-residence, Conner Darling and sadé powell, and take part in other fun activities at this free community event!
Camp Colton is excited to be partnering once again with our nonprofit sister organization in Portland, Stelo, to offer 2-week artist residencies in our papermaking and letterpress printmaking studios. Learn more about the residencies HERE.
Come for all or part of the afternoon to enjoy these activities with friends and neighbors:
1:15 pm - Artist talks in Camp Colton's historic chapel by Conner & sadé (see bios below)
2:00 pm - Walking tours of Camp Colton with historical narrative from Camp's Operations Director and longtime Colton Community member, Jarred Lundstrom
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Demonstrations and work samples in the paper and print studios
Our thoughtfully restored Gathering Hall will have tables and chairs set up for you to enjoy lunch or snacks available for purchase from Kellan’s Dogs or non-profit Youth to Tomorrow.
Guests are welcome to join in for all activities, or just pick and choose. No tickets or RSVP are necessary.
About the letterpress artist-in-residence:
sadé powell is a native new yorker and antidisciplinary artist exploring fugitivity, legibility, and interobjectivity through poetry and collage. inspired by her upbringing, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic elements of her 1940s mechanical typewriter to gesture towards dissemblance as proximity and relation to otherwise potentialities. sadé holds a ma in performance studies at nyu tisch. her first-ish chapbook wordtomydead is forthcoming in ugly duckling presse.
About the papermaking artist-in-residence:
Conner Darling is an installation artist and occasional farm hand originally from the suburbs of Houston. He received a bachelors in percussion performance from the University of Michigan and has since transitioned to focusing on visual art. His work turns towards the local landscape in an attempt to illuminate our place in it.