First Thursday in the Pearl with Adriene Cruz at The Black Gallery!
Adriene Cruz, Power Prayer for the Community, 2024. Mixed media.
Tomorrow: First Thursday in the Pearl District!
The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) will be hosting free screenprinting to the public this Thursday. Art teachers are showing solidarity in raising awareness for the family of Immaueal Jacquez Clark-Johnson, #MannyClark,an unarmed Black man wrongfully murdered by Portland Police Bureau in November of 2022. In this call to action, we ask you to support the family in their fight for justice through word of mouth, donating to the familys’ GoFundMeas well as attending the continuing vigils on the 19th of every month. Thursday April 4, 5-8pm. 511 NW Broadway St, Portland, OR 97209
The Black Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland invites you to join us tomorrow for First Thursday celebrations featuring our current show with local fabric and textile artist Adriene Cruz! We will have light refreshments and music from 5 to 7pm with special attendance by Adriene and exhibit curators. Thank you to Portland Art Museum and Adriene Cruz hosting this presentation of beautiful work at our gallery. Come through for art, conversation and community during your First Thursday art walk, and make sure to visit our neighboring partners at Blackfish, Elizabeth Leach, Blue Sky and so many others! Thursday April 4, 5-7pm. 916 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR 97209
April 12th + 13th, 2024: Memory Work for Black Lives
Are you interested in learning more about the preservation of art and personal images and documents? Our nonprofit Don’t Shoot Portland will be debuting a new installation at University of Oregon that will center our Liberated Archives exhibit series. The weekend will kick off with free workshops and a plenary about the importance of creative archiving and memory work. Details and free registration can be found here.
Throughout the plenary, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in panel discussions, workshops and interactive sessions aimed at exploring the intersection of memory work, social justice and community activism. Key topics will include the significance of community archiving initiatives, strategies for preserving and sharing marginalized voices and the role of memory in shaping collective identities. April 12 from 10am to 6pm / April 13th, 10am to 4pm. White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209
The Center of Injustice, by Don't Shoot Portland and Media Pollution. Photo by Ali Gradischer
Policing Justice at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art: Our multimedia installation, Center of Injustice, is still open to the public as part of the Policing Justice through May 19!
Visit PICA to take in the powerful works on display while learning about the histories of police violence to actively re-imagine what a future of true community safety looks like. This weekend, in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our installation will feature his final speech, “I’ve Been to The Mountaintop”, from the April 3rd, 1968 rally for sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee before his assassination the following day, April 4th. We encourage you to watch the speech here, and to read the full transcription here. while and let yourself take record of what has, and has not changed in the 56 years that have since passed.
Daily hours are on Thurs / Friday from 12-6pm and Sat / Sun from 12-4pm. Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, 15 NE Hancock St, Portland, OR 97212
