Hosted by SPEEDWELL Projects, Barça/Barzak is a pop up shop featuring furniture by Senegalese artist Papa Mendy in conjunction with Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks, and Pathways. Each piece is handcrafted and made one-of-a-kind from repurposed wood sourced from traditional West African boats. The canoe is legendary. Noah used it to save humanity. Westerners used it […]
Come see first-hand why students are choosing to study in MECA&D's close-knit community and rigorous artistic programs.
A Shared Space | Lewiston by Daniel Quintanilla, Shuab Ahmed Mahat, and Hilowle Aden is a pop-up immersive 360° virtual reality experience inviting all of us to ask questions about the physical and social spaces we inhabit and what we lose when we are out of contact with one another. A Shared Space tells the […]
Please join Sister Makings & Cultivating Community for a community potluck in one of the most creative and diverse growing spaces in Portland. All are welcome, please bring a dish that you love, or from your cultural heritage to share. Sister Makings seeks to co-create sanctuary that promotes equitably shared learning experiences, we co-create space […]
Barça/Barzak: The immigrant's hope | Papa Mendy Exhibition On View: October 13 - 21, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 13, 6-8PM Hosted by SPEEDWELL Projects, Barça/Barzak is a pop up shop featuring furniture by Senegalese artist Papa Mendy in conjunction with Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks, and Pathways. Each piece is handcrafted and made one-of-a-kind from repurposed […]
The Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble presents music from the richly varied contemporary and historic cultural traditions of the Middle East including Ottoman Turkish Classical compositions, rural Turkish folk and devotional songs, Arabic classical and folk music, and dance music from the Armenian and Turkish immigrant diasporas. Tickets are available here. >> Click here […]
Exhibition that confronts and explores representations of mobility in art. Curated by Catherine Besteman, Chloé Powers, and Caroline Webb. Featuring work by: Romare Bearden, Phong Bui, Lalla Essaydi, Whitfield Lovell, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard Mosse, Fred Wilson, Leo Rubinfien, and Alfred Stieglitz. Gallery talk by co-curator Caroline Webb at 12 noon on Thursday, October 25th in the Landay Teaching Alcove. >> Click here to return to Exhibition […]
A brown bag lunch and discussion of the themes and ideas addressed in Refuge Malja ملجأ, moderated by Portland Stage. Page to Stage is a discussion series run like a book group and hosted in collaboration between the Portland Public Library and […]
Screening of Destination America Episode 1: The Golden Door by Stephen Stept and David Grubin. In this first episode from the acclaimed four-part series on immigration, historians Donna Gabaccia and Janet Nolan, among others, provide a historical context for America’s longstanding and sometimes conflicted relationship with immigrant labor. Reflecting that “once, there was no such […]
