Archives for Black Lives: A Liberated Archives Exhibition by Don’t Shoot Portland August 7–28, 2021
Installation view, photography by Mario Gallucci
Don’t Shoot Portland presents Archives for Black Lives: A Liberated Archives Exhibition at Holding Contemporary. The multimedia installation will open on Saturday, August 7 and run through Saturday, August 28. Gallery hours will be Thursday – Sunday, noon – 5pm. Safety and social distancing requirements will still be in place.
Archives for Black Lives: A Liberated Archives Exhibition centers on education, documentation, and preservation of history. Through a partnership with the City of Portland Archives, Don’t Shoot Portland gained access to informational archives that inform current systems. These educational assets are vital to sustaining social change and through building upon these dialogues through a historical context, Don’t Shoot Portland is activating a call to action.
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This is the gallery’s third exhibition with Don’t Shoot Portland. In 2017, Stolen Angels was created as a space where the families of children murdered by the police and the violence of white supremacy could remember, represent, and depict their family members' memories with love, honor, and positivity. In 2020, Stop Killing Us served as both a memorial space and acknowledgement of the history of social protest in Portland through photographs, protest posters and video.
Don’t Shoot Portland is a social justice organization that uses art, education and community engagement to create social change. Since 2014, their free programming and advocacy work has been done to promote civic participation in the spaces of racial justice and human rights. Since George Floyd’s murder and the following uprising, Don’t Shoot Portland has been on the forefront, filing a class action lawsuit against the city of Portland and suing the Trump administration for the federal response of those defending the general populaces’ right to protest. Don’t Shoot Portland also published an in-depth report on Riot Control Agents in 2020, illustrating the irreparable harm caused by RCAs during the Covid-19 respiratory pandemic. www.dontshootpdx.org
HOLDING Contemporary presents exhibitions and programs by visual artists across disciplines. Through our curatorial vision and alternative community-driven business model we seek to challenge the economic and social privilege of the art world.