BLACK FUTURES FORWARD: Come See Us at The Black, Black History Museum!
Visit Our Pop-Up Gallery at Black, Black History Month Museum with 1803 Fund!
Black-serving organizations across Portland are celebrating a “Black, Black History Month” this year by hosting a pop-up museum sponsored by 1803 at the Creative Homies Horizon Enterprise Building in Old Town.
Though 1803 Funds' work often centers Albina as the historic heart of Black life in Portland, Old Town is one of the first neighborhoods where Black folks settled in the city–the railroad brought families from out east in the late 1800s.
The Black, Black History Month Museum will bring together Albina Music Trust, Oregon Black Pioneers, The BLACK Gallery powered by Don't Shoot Portland, Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church, Word is Bond and others to activate three floors of the Creative Homies historic building for the entire month. Visit the Black, Black History Month Museum from 10am to 4pm Wednesday through Saturday and 11am to 4pm on Sunday at 433 NW 4th Avenue.
Learn more about the Museum and see full event programming here.
Who We Are: The Fine Art of Isaka Shamsud-Din
This exhibit features unique works by multi-disciplinary artist Isaka Shamsud-Din (b. 1940), showcasing decades of archival drafts, drawings and paintings. This collection serves as a retrospective of Shamsud-Din’s art from his early beginnings to the arrival of his signature style through the decades. As a boy, newly arrived from Texas, Shamsud-Din and his family lost all they had to the devastating Vanport flood of 1948.
Isaka Shamsud-Din is known in the Pacific Northwest as a muralist, art professor, and social commentary artist who critiques the complex history that makes up the African American experience. His large-scale paintings imbue vivid color and bold energy, bringing his characters to life. We hope this exhibit provides you with a valuable insight into Shamsud-Din’s process, techniques and important perspectives on American history, politics, and social culture. Learn more about Isaka’s work at isakashamsuddin.com.
Exhibit will be open all February long.
Community Wall Feature at Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
This Thursday join us at Blue Sky Gallery for the opening of We Are The Dream: Protest Photography of Don’t Shoot PDX by Dr. Kathryn Kendall.
Dr. Kendall has been on the frontlines for over a decade while documenting community activism. It has been an honor to know Dr. Kendall and Don’t Shoot Portland is grateful for this opportunity to share her intimate and powerful images with the public. Thank you to Yuyang Zhang of Blue Sky Gallery for supporting our organization and including us as Blue Sky's Community Wall Feature!
Black Futures Forward:
Room for Conversation Extended through February 28
Come experience our interactive show, Room for Conversation with works from Ernie Barnes, Kara Walker, Faith Ringgold, Julian Gaines, and Isaka Shamsud-Din.
Thank you to the ACLU, Colloqate Design, Critical Resistance and others for using the context of our exhibit to organize and host important conversations!
Visitors are invited to kick back and immerse themselves in culturally rich artworks, vintage magazines, music and conversation. Our oral history recording booth is open during appointments as well.
Group visits are encouraged - please schedule your visit by heading totheblackgallerypdx.com or emailing taic@dontshootpdx.org.
Land of the Empire Builders, Isaka Shamsud-Din. Photo by Mario Gallucci
