Ebony Frison and Stephanie Adams-Santos, both Portland-based artists and poets, come together to create a space to recall, reflect, and hold grief. Working in distinct visual languages, both artists engage memory as something active and persistent that lingers in image, land, and the body.

Bringing together printmaking, installation, photography, and the written word, the exhibition takes its title from the concept of “rememory” in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, where memory is understood as experiential. Memory can live and breathe, love and admonish. Haunt.

This showcase is a celebration and a peek into the lives, art, and organizing of American sex workers who were active in the preceding years and at the beginning of the new millennium. As technology and government increasingly target, shift, and dictate how sex work can exist, we must be the ones documenting our lives and work. To all the sex workers who came before us, we offer our deepest gratitude and reverence. To all the sex workers of the future, may you know a world in which this profession is respected and uplifted. 

The use of common Ghanaian foods, cloths, and material items serve as a ‘proxy’ to the spectrum of (non)(multi)(trans)(a)gendered African identities serves as a satiric rebuke of the fear that transphobic/queerphobic Ghanaians have of the Trans/Queer community.

Digital somatics connects the body to technology through immersion and practices of slowness in relation to our bodies and technology. How can we use technological mediums such as VR, AR, and immersive technologies to slow down time?

In wiri wiri bird’s eye,  Zoë Gamell Brown invites us to explore yonder, asking us to enter the portal of our dreams. Deeply rooted in the knowledge and wisdom of her matriarchs, Brown creates a multi-medium experience of moving images, ceramic sculptures and paintings, asking you to consider your environment, history, present, and future potency.

In ROOM-innate, Lady Tournament privileges us into an immersive experience - a recreation of her childhood home - a womb where her trans-womanhood began. Through the reproduction of domestic space, paintings from her biological mother and sculptures from her daughter, Jzl Jmz maps matrilineal connections of creative expression and troubles the Black domestic as a place of solace, imagination & birth.

the first and the last is a screening series and digital archival project birthed in 2017 by ariella tai and kiki nicole. “We specialize in uplifting new media and experimental film for and by Black trans, non-binary, and queer artists often overlooked in traditional art spaces due to anti-Blackness, misogynoir, and gentrification.”

Originally from Maryland and based in Philadelphia, SCRAAATCH has performed and exhibited sound and media experiments at venues including MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, MoCADA and the New Museum in NY, Various Small Fires in LA and Little Berlin and the ICA in Philadelphia. Using the chaotic and energetic hybrid DJ/live PA style they’ve come to be known for, they’ve played sets for Boiler Room, MoMA PS1 Sunday Sessions and GHE20G0TH1K among many others.

Opening reception: July 6, 2019, 6-9pm
Show duration: July 6 - 28, 2019

As an exhibition Stratum explores the practice of tattooing through the lens of race and gender in an industry dominated by misogyny, racism and colonization. By focusing on the work of those with multiple marginalized identities and those with direct cultural ties to the practice of body modification, we begin to deconstruct how the industry and practice have manifested. We carve out a place for artists who make a transformative place for healing, reclamation of self and ancestry. Stratum seeks to reveal the multitudes that tattooers are capable of as artists, storytellers and activists outside of the physical act of tattooing.

This photography exhibit celebrates those who claim, reclaim and/or disrupt traditional constructs of black femininity in its many forms. The images captured mark an occasion where black women/femmes were seen, counted, loved and valued. This in and of itself is a political act.

Informed by traditional cell animation, questions of family and belonging, all topped with a heaping spoonful of dark humor, Carmi “Spicyyeti” TB, beckons us to explore the world of The Damonia Family.

Opening reception: Feb 2, 2019 6 - 9pm
Show duration: Feb 2 - 24, 2019

In "strategies for displaying unknown variables" Alan Page invites us to navigate decontextualized visual disturbances. Using variations of the screen, they implore us to engage with the unrecognizable, challenge us with various barriers to seeing, and beckon us to explore in a playground of digital glow, broken files, & machine learning.

Curated by Maya Vivas

In Alien ate d Rhy thm* Hiba Ali and Jonathan Chacón disrupt the traditional white-wall gallery with the color orange, bubbles, a train set, and foam tiles.

Welcome, Fam! 
BLACK ART PARTY is a melanin-rich queer-centric event filled to the brim with local POC vendors of all stripes, disciplines, and wares, Black DJs and QTPOC performance artists! 

Opening reception: Oct 4, 2018, 6-10pm
Show duration: Oct 4 - Nov 18, 2018

Inheritance weaves together the talents of April Felipe, Habiba El-Sayed and Natalia Arbelaez, whose work engages ideas of selfhood, be it constructed or obligatory. Each of theses artists use ceramics as a tool to question: who is hyper visible and who goes unseen? Whose identities are anchored and who is left with a sense of loss in search of belonging? And finally, how much power do we truly have in correcting the course of our inherited paths? Through personal narrative, they challenge us to reflect inward and explore how our complicated pasts affect our present understanding of the self.

Curated by Maya Vivas