Community Events
Spring Break Out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Friday, March 28 from 1 to 2:30pm:
Boots on the Ground will present Self + Community: Solutions for Revolution, a day of hands-on workshops to teach attendees about direct care.
This includes the basics of critical response including basic emergency first aid, wound dressing, the importance of emotional regulation, stress tolerance, navigating interpersonal relationships and practicing radical mindfulness.
DSPDX Annex
927 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR 97209
Spring Break Out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Friday, March 28 from 10am to 3pm:
Recently locating to Portland from Atlanta, Saleam is known for his Afrocentric emphasis in the work he creates, from his background as a cartoonist to his specialized form of abstract expressionism.
Saleam will host a drop-in style art workshop open to youth of all ages. All supplies are included free of charge.
DSPDX Annex
927 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR 97209
Spring Break Out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Join Don’t Shoot PDX, Basic Rights Oregon, famed author Alice Faye Duncan, and the ACLU of Oregon to protect Oregon’s diverse voices from censorship and book bans!
‘No More Book Bans: Defending the Freedom to Read’ is an event with educators, authors, and youth to celebrate the freedom to read, think, and learn with an afternoon of art, advocacy, and community.
DSPDX Annex
927 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR 97209
Spring Break Out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Thursday, March 26
Streaming from our socials starting at 10am: @dontshootpdx
Join us for a discussion by famed author Alice Faye Duncan as she shares her experience being placed on banned lists, the wide-ranging effects of these book bans and her latest titles, including things we can all do to stay hopeful during times of change.
Alice Faye Duncan is an award-winning author, National Board educator, and speaker. Her Juneteenth book, Opal Lee and What It Means To Be Free has sold over 100,000 copies since January 2022. Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop received a Coretta Scott King Honor Medal for Illustrations in 2019. Yellow Dog Blues was a New York Times and NYPL Best Illustrated Picture Book in 2022. Evicted was a Bank Street Best Book Selection in 2022. Coretta’s Journey was a 2023 Horn Book Fanfare Selection. In that same year, Alice appeared on Good Morning America to speak about children, grief, and the comfort found in her book, This Train is Bound for Glory. Her home is that river city—Memphis, TN. For 30 years, Alice taught in the Memphis schools. She now writes full-time in service to young learners, liberation, and light. Visit her at www.alicefayeduncan.com.
Streaming on @DontShootPDXC socials at 10am.
Spring Break Out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Wednesday, March 27 from 11am to 3pm:
American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US. Stoking fears of “Negro Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial government. The story of what happened in Wilmington was suppressed for decades until descendants and scholars began to investigate. Today, many of those descendants — Black and white — seek the truth about this intentionally buried history.
Please RSVP via Eventbrite for the film screening!
DSPDX Annex
927 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR 97209
Spring Break out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Wednesday, March 26 from 11am to 3pm:
Join Don’t Shoot Portland and Next Up Action Fund for a presentation on youth civic engagement as well as a screening of American Coup: Wilmington 1898.
Please RSVP via Eventbrite for the film screening at tr.ee/SpringBreakOut
DSPDX Annex
927 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR 97209
Spring Break Out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Tuesday, March 25 from 10am to 3pm:
Open House at the Don't Shoot Portland Annex: Archives for Black Lives and a 12pm workshop with photographer and educator AbdoulNasser Mika!
‘Photography as a Tool of Resistance’, is a workshop and photo walk. This interactive workshop will pay homage to the late Gordon Parks, a prolific photographer while empowering attendees to document the world around them to encourage social change.
“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.”
This event is free and open to youth of all ages.
All supplies, including disposable cameras are included with refreshments available.
DSPDX Annex
927 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR 97209
Spring Break Out 2025
Our annual Spring Break Out program takes place the week of March 24 through the 28th. We will invite youth and their families to participate in free workshops focused on community education, art and civic engagement.
Monday, March 24 from 10am to 3pm:
Open House at Don't Shoot Portland Annex:
Free art supplies and books from our Black Cultural Library will be given away! Drop in to get a social justice swag bag and learn more about our community-based art and education programs.
Image is from ‘An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children’, authored by Jamaica Kincaid and illustrated by Kara Walker. We will have 10 of these limited books available to giveaway in addition to other titles in our library.
DSPDX Annex
927 NW Everett Street
Portland, OR 97209
Liberated Archives at SXSW 2025
Resistance Is Happening Now: Archiving the Black Lives Matter Movement
SXSW in Austin, TX at Satellite Ranch | March 7-15, 2025
Don’t Shoot Portlands’ commitment to activism and preservation continues in this Liberated Archives for Black Lives series during SXSW 2025.
Liberated Archives for Black Lives amplifies the ongoing struggle for human rights by centering the solidarity and advocacy work of local organizers as an ongoing collaboration series between activists, archivists, librarians and museums dating back to 2011.
We recognize that systemic discrimination is sustained by historical and social factors, requiring intentional efforts to identify and dismantle. This is where our installation, Resistance is Happening Now, bridges the gaps to educate and facilitate critical dialogues about white supremacy in America.
This installation features law enforcement documents, surveillance reports, media headlines and archival public records relative to national uprisings that intersect with todays’ global movement for human rights and dignity. Local protest photography spanning over a decade of Portland community action honors the resistance of organizers and advocates.
Extended: Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Come experience Room for Conversation with unique works from remarkable artists Kara Walker, Faith Ringgold, Julian Gaines, Ernie Barnes 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!
Installation view by Mario Gallucci
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 to theblackgallerypdx.com or emailing taic@dontshootpdx.org.
Photo by Mario Gallucci
1803 Presents Black, Black History Month 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 mural artist, 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.
11th Annual Reclaim MLK!
This event is a protest, meant to include everyone as we support and uplift the voices of Black people. We are unapologetic in our movement for Black Lives and we use this event to center the voices of our children, who are most vulnerable to the systemic violations of civil liberties. We want everyone to feel welcome to support and participate in this movement to uplift the Black family and our entire community. Not many events center the voices of children to uplift the Black community so we reclaim Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day for this purpose.
In our eleven years of social justice organizing, we have fed, clothed, fought for, and rallied against so many intersectional issues affecting our communities, regardless of sex, color, religion or ability. All of this as a purely donor funded organization, we do not seek out and apply for government grants. We are entirely fueled by the community action plan that we have all created, together. Support comes from those who sent us hundreds of self-made 3D printed face shields and boxes of masks and covid tests. Support comes from those who mixed bottles of tear gas solution to lessen the pain of our friends and neighbors’ faces and eyes when Portland police brutalize people with these toxic chemicals. We’ve been in solidarity with our Indigenous community, we’ve made testimony with our local PPS educators and advocates, and we’ve fought Donald Trump and the Homeland Security when they brought their vans to kidnap community members fighting for Black Lives.
Showing up isn’t always easy. It is dangerous and it is necessary to make historical social change. Civil rights leaders were brutalized and killed as they walked across this country to gain voting rights, to showcase their dedication to civic action to empower the generations to follow.
Your joining us today is nothing short of powerful and important and as you march with us, we encourage you to take every word of every chant to heart, to hold it deep inside of you, and to let it ring out as loud as you want it to. Hold these words, these stories of lives lost, the hope that we can do better, and make a promise today that you will uplift the movement for Human Rights and Dignity.
Please follow our work, support our programming, and keep showing up. Find a volunteer with a DSP shirt for any questions or accessibility needs.
We will be leaving to march at 1PM!
Email contact@dontshootpdx.org for accommodation needs.
Reclaim MLK Art Workshop at pnca!
Join us at PNCA for our final art build ahead of our 11th annual March for Reclaim MLK!
This community printmaking event will focus on creating community art for Don't Shoot Portland's 11th annual Reclaim MLK March on January 20, 2025.
During this art build, you'll have the chance to work alongside talented artists and activists, using various mediums including screenprinting for social change and to make a statement. We'll explore different themes and techniques, sharing ideas and inspiration. Free to join!
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Panel at PCC Northview
Join us at PCC Northview campus for an artist talk about the current exhibit, Graffiti As Resistance, which is showcasing reproductions of the Apple Store mural images. Listen to Don’t Shoot Portland leaders talk about the importance of cultural preservation, art as social justice, and more.
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Giving Tuesday!
Help us sustain the critical work we do in communities across Portland.
Make a tax deductible donation on the biggest give day of the year!
GIVE.
Not Black Friday
Join us for our annual DSPDX Not Black Friday food drive. Email contact@dontshootpdx.org with Not Black Friday in the subject line - we are in need of drivers and support volunteers for the day!
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
THE BLACK GALLERY IS OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY,
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 12 TO 5
ELECTION NIGHT & OPENING RECEPTION: Room For Conversation
Artists featured: Kara Walker, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines
In anticipation of the upcoming election night coupled with the subsequent Inauguration Day, The BLACK Gallery powered by DSPDX presents a new exhibit, Room for Conversation, opening November 5th through January 20, 2025.
This interactive exhibit kicks off with an election night watch party that includes an oral history recording booth that will allow visitors to document their feelings and reactions during this complicated yet monumental event. Room for Conversation welcomes groups and individuals to schedule time to simply be present within the art space while supporting the need for intersectional discussions and critical dialogue.
FREE REGISTRATION: Election Night Watch Party at The BLACK Gallery
The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming for use in critical response work, advocacy and public education, and it’s these values that center and inform the spaces.
This exhibit features rare, one of a kind pieces from Don’t Shoot Portland/The BLACK Gallery collection including works by Kara Walker, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold and Ernie Barnes.
Room for Conversation is inspired by discussion rooms and lounges in social clubs where creatives would come together to discuss world views, politics and art. On November 4th while our nation awaits the results of a historic election that centers on race, gender and class in America, ‘Room for Conversation’ intentionally provides Portlanders, and visitors to our city, a place to land.
Room for Conversation at The BLACK Gallery
Room for Conversation features rare, one of a kind works by Ernie Barnes, Julian Gaines, Faith Ringgold, Isaka Shamsud-Din and Kara Walker, all from The BLACK Gallery powered by Don’t Shoot Portland’s collection.
As part of our ongoing archival work, Room for Conversation also features an oral history booth where everyone and anyone can share their thoughts and feelings about revolution, politics, social interactions, and whatever is on their mind. The exhibit is interactive, curated in a ‘living room’ style to create a welcoming and intimate space. The artists featured are champions of civil rights with their works reflecting cultural resilience, Black history and activism. Vintage magazines (Jet, Ebony, Ebony Jr., American Visions, American Legacy) are available to visitors to inspire reflection and foster dialogue.
Open through January 20, Room for Conversation intentionally provides Portlanders and visitors to our city, a place to land. The BLACK Gallery curators are known for developing bystander intervention and anti racist programming through Don’t Shoot Portland and it’s these values that center and inform our space.
The BLACK Gallery is open by appointment only,
Thursday through Sunday 12 to 5
Schedule your appointment today.
Community Art Build w/DSPDX at PNCA!
ART BUILD AT PNCA WITH DON'T SHOOT PORTLAND
Saturday October 26, 2024
11am to 3pm at Pacific Northwest College of Art
Join us for an exciting hands-on art build at the Pacific Northwest College of Art! At this community printmaking event, we will create art for our annual Reclaim MLK community action taking place in January 2025.
During this event, you'll have the chance to work alongside talented artists and activists, using various mediums including screenprinting to express your creativity and make a statement. We'll explore different themes and techniques, sharing ideas and inspiration.
Reclaim MLK honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for racial justice and human rights. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and contribute to a collective effort that aims to bring about positive change in our community. This is a family-friendly event. Everyone is welcome!
Eventbrite link can be found here.
Portland Monuments Project Symposium
Portland Monuments Project Symposium, presented by arts foundation Converge 45 will take place on October 11th and 12th. This two-day event will explore the complexities of monuments in public spaces, examining their historical significance and contemporary relevance. Join a diverse group of speakers, artists, and community leaders as they engage in discussions and workshops designed to foster dialogue and collaboration on monument culture.
Don’t Shoot Portland founder and executive director Teressa Raiford will present on Oct 11th’s Policy Making panel!
Registration can be found here: https://converge45.us22.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b8d51af9efcd80eed02c69811&id=8b3fec7822&e=3cdc5b89cf
Schedule
Friday, Oct 11th
9:30 AM - Registration & Coffee
10:00 AM - Community Event
11:00 AM - Panel Discussion No. 1: Policy Making
12:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - Panel Discussion No. 2: Indigenous Perspectives
3:30 PM - Breakout Sessions
4:30 PM - Closing
Saturday, Oct 12th
9:30 AM - Registration & Coffee
10:30 AM - Panel Discussion No. 3: Artist Perspectives
12:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - Breakout Sessions
2:15 PM - Breakout Sessions
3:30 PM - Keynote: Hamza Walker
4:30 PM - Closing