Troll Alley
Trash Monsters

Keep Portland Monstery...

Deep in the industrial fringes of North Portland, at the bottom of alley suspected as a habitat of trolls, a mysterious krewe of monsters musters... as scrap cardboard, used shopping bags, expired political signs, and old plastic bottles are reassembled into wondrous new forms: apparitions richly laden with horns, tusks and tails, or starkly skeletal or alien in their glued and taped-together configurations...

Do YOU have an inner trash monster waiting to be released upon the world?Then get ready to warm up your glue gun and rev your sewing machine motor in preparation to join the Troll Alley Trash Monsters!

Drop an email to trashmonsters@goblinart.com if you are interested in receiving updates on future monster making occasions at our secret lair. These will not be formal workshops--instead envision a collaborative gathering of monster-minded, eco-crafty, recycling-passionate folks who want to give some poor abandoned garbage a new life (one that just happens to include lots of extra eyeballs and tentacles).

We plan to share our monsters at various community events around North Portland in 2025, for the delight of all those who behold them, and additionally to inspire people to give their garbage a second chance through artistic reuse and crafty upcycling.

Also, we may be looking for folks to carry/perform extra trash monster creations at future events! If that excites you, please let us know--we love volunteer helpers! Some trash monsters are backpack-mounted puppets, others simple heads on sticks. No puppetry or performance experience needed, just email trashmonsters@goblinart.com for more details.

Upcoming Monster Opportunities:

Portland Mardi Gras Parade, 7pm, Tuesday March 4th 2025, N Albina & Mississippi. 0.8 mile nighttime parade on gradually downhill ground with good overhead clearance. Highly-illuminated costumes (i.e. LED lights) strongly recommended for this one. We are a registered Krewe at this event!

St Johns Parade, Noon, Saturday May 10, 2025, St Johns neighborhood. 0.7 mile daytime street parade on level ground with good overhead clearance.
St Johns Business District Community Trick or Treat, Last Saturday in October, 2025, 11am-1pm, St Johns neighborhood. Rumpus in the downtown Plaza on level ground with OK overhead clearance (some trees).