Concordia Neighborhood Association | Portland, Oregon

Concordia Garden & Art Tour

Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Concordia Neighborhood (various locations)
Tickets: $15

The Concordia Garden & Art Tour is a self-guided walking or biking tour of five private gardens. Guests may visit the gardens in any order during the tour hours.

Proceeds support Concordia Neighborhood Association programming, with a portion benefiting the Faubion Elementary School garden.

Explore a curated selection of private gardens while discovering work by local artists throughout the Concordia neighborhood.

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Purchase of a ticket constitutes acceptance of the event waiver and tour guidelines

Participating Gardens and Artists

GARDEN 1: Joseph Augello, Heather Augello & Sean Thompson

A backyard retreat designed to tie together two households. After the addition of an ADU for multigenerational living, the current owners wanted space to come together to share a meal, entertain, and create. The yard features an outdoor kitchen and sitting area with a hand built patio cover, and a fire pit surrounded by a reclaimed water fed stream emptying into a koi pond. A stained glass art studio is tucked away overlooking the stream and is shaded by a mature plum tree. The fledging garden is filled in with a variety of evergreens, annuals/perennials, as well as dogwood and Japanese maple trees, with plenty of open space left to entertain.

Artist: Peggy Pfenninger 

Peggy, a 21-year Concordia resident and multidisciplinary artist, creates work as vibrant as her personality and as diverse as her wardrobe. She’s been a volunteer and supporter of the arts through Art on Alberta, Siren Nation, and currently creates a coloring page in the local paper. Peggy enjoys color, visual texture, ephemera, pattern, and repetition. Her favorite medium is collage. IG: @pfun.haus.art @collagewithpegguin @ptown.prints.designs

GARDEN 2: Mark Kalk & Mark Lammert

The current owners are the second family to live in this 8 year old house. During the selling process, the garden was idle for 18 months. The garden is being rejuvenated by cleaning it up, putting in pathways, pruning shrubs and trees while generally transforming it from a plant collector’s garden to a habitat garden. This means having native plants, water sources, wildlife spaces, and food sources supplemented by providing seeds and nuts. This garden is pesticide free and watered efficiently. This garden provides spaces for wildlife, humans and a slightly nutty little dog.

Artist: Amy Daileda

Amy Daileda’s vibrant paintings invite you to experience a world of awe and joy. Her work explores our connection to the universe through the details of plants. Macro photos, botany, native plants, and herbalism all inform her art. After designing clothing for 25 years Amy returned to painting in 2020. She has worked out of her Concordia home studio since 2000, where she has a view of her Backyard Habitat Certified garden. www.vivid-element.com

GARDEN 3: Jasmine Wibbens & David Green

A gold-certified Backyard Habitat, this space is planted with over 100 varieties of Oregon natives as well as many pollinator-friendly perennials, evergreens, and annuals. Over the past 6 years it has been transformed from plain grass, weeds, and traditional shrubs to a lovely blend of nature and people-friendly landscaping, including separate dining and seating patios, a productive vegetable garden, a small rain garden, and a half-barrel nature pond. The owners provide dead wood and water sources for birds and insects and embrace wildlife-friendly gardening practices. They maintain an ever-increasing population of native Mason bees and this year once again are hosting a nesting Anna’s hummingbird and her babies.

Artist: Lisa Laser

Lisa Laser paints from her home studio finding inspiration from her daily walks and the crows who scream at her from the fence. She paints with oil and acrylic mostly on wood, canvas and other people’s discarded items. Her art subjects range from birds, people, and landscapes to snarky cathartic creatures. She likes black coffee, reading, bones, old photographs and magazines, dancing, and pie. www.lisalaserart.com IG: @lisabunnylaser

GARDEN 4: Jim Gersbach

Jim’s love of woody plants is reflected in his garden, which is home to more than 30 trees and numerous shrubs. Southern Hemisphere and eastern Asian trees are prominent in the garden including four eucryphias, a snow gum, South American azaras, a Winter’s bark tree from Chile, a large coralbark Japanese maple, a yellowhorn tree from northern China, two Disanthus, five stewartias from Japan, Korea and China, seven crape myrtles, and two uncommon Asian trees – Euptelea pleiosperma and Bretschneidera sinensis. Shade-tolerant perennials are sprinkled in the understory, including many hardy fuchsias. The garden also contains several different varieties of red-hot pokers and dieramas from South Africa. The front yard is wheel-chair accessible, and a paved, level path leads into the back yard.

Artist: Anne Jennings Paris

Anne Jennings Paris lives on 29th and Alberta and loves being a part of the Concordia neighborhood. She has recently joined the fun on projects such as Alleyfest and the Allery Outdoor Art Gallery. In 2025, she participated in the Portland Open Studios tour for the first time. Anne’s work is primarily painting in acrylics, encaustic, and watercolor, but she is also known for her poetry and her dioramas of tiny imaginary worlds. The Secret Garden is one of the first movies she ever saw (on a reel to reel projector in 1976), and the magical threshold guardian robin revealing the secret key transformed Anne’s whole approach to life, the universe, and everything. She’s been talking to birds and looking for the hidden key ever since.

GARDEN 5: Faubion Elementary School Garden

The Faubion Elementary School Garden is a wild learning paradise! For eight joyful years, over 500 students have enjoyed hands-on lessons in food production, Indigenous plant communities, nutrition, ecology, and so much more. Together we grow what we eat, and we eat what we grow! This space features 20 raised vegetable beds, berry patches, a Three Sisters Garden, a Pizza Garden, Native plantings, and three new mini forest gardens. Interpretive signs will guide you through this hands-on nature experience. Bring your kids, do a scavenger hunt, and boogie with some of our favorite celebrity snails and earthworms!

Artist: Participating artists have generously donated artwork for a raffle, with proceeds supporting the Faubion Elementary School garden.

 

All art shown is representative of the artists’ work; exact pieces may not be available.

Ticket Information

  • Tickets are required for entry to the gardens
  • One ticket admits one person to all locations
  • Location information will be provided in June, two weeks prior to the tour date
  • Children aged 18 and under are free with an adult
  • Tickets are non-refundable
  • The tour takes place rain or shine

Tour Guidelines

These gardens are private homes generously opened for this event. Please help us respect the hosts and their spaces:

  • Stay on paths and walkways
  • Do not pick plants or flowers
  • No pets, smoking, food, or alcohol
  • Do not enter areas marked private
  • Please use public restrooms (like Kennedy School)
  • Gardens vary in terrain and may include uneven surfaces or steps. Not all gardens are wheelchair accessible.

Liability Waiver

By purchasing a ticket and participating in the Concordia Garden & Art Tour, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

  • Participation in this event involves walking on sidewalks and neighborhood streets and visiting private residential properties. Conditions may include uneven paths, garden surfaces, stairs, and other natural features. By attending, you understand that participation carries inherent risks.
  • By attending the tour, you voluntarily assume all risks associated with participation and agree to release and hold harmless the Concordia Neighborhood Association, Faubion Elementary School, participating homeowners, artists, volunteers, and event partners from any claims, injuries, damages, or losses arising from your participation.
  • Participants are responsible for their own safety and are expected to follow posted guidelines and respect the homes and gardens on the tour. Please remain on designated paths and follow any instructions provided by volunteers or homeowners.
  • Participants are responsible for any damage caused to property as a result of their actions.
  • By attending the event, you also grant permission for photographs or video taken during the tour to be used by the Concordia Neighborhood Association for promotional or documentation purposes.

Read the full waiver here.

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Questions: Contact Cathy at social@concordiapdx.org