[Oregon Business] Living History: Pop-Up Museum Celebrates Black Experience In Oregon

Community members listen to “Soul Conversation,” the Black, Black History Museum’s inaugural event. | Photo by Jason Hill

OREGON BUSINESS | GARRETT ANDREWS

The contributions of Oregon’s small but resilient Black community — to business, culture, art and civil rights — are now on display in a multi-format free public event in Old Town.

From now to the end of the month, the Horizon Enterprise Building is the site of “Black, Black History Month,” hosting galleries, film screenings, performances, panel talks, a book club, interactive art exhibit and an artists’ store. 

The pop-up event was organized by the 1803 Fund and Creative Homies and features collaborations with a dozen community partners including the Center for Black Excellence, Albina Music Trust, Oregon Black Pioneers and Don’t Shoot PDX. Featured artists include photographers Jason Hill and Suhela Hassan and multi-disciplinary artists Isaka Shamsud-Din and Shani Storey.