Vanport Mosaic Installation
History is Now is an outdoor exhibit in a collaboration with Vanport Mosaic, utilizing empty storefront windows with history displays that celebrate local communities’ strength and meant to inspire people to join in solidarity and action. The pop-up exhibit consists of 65 displays spreading across six buildings in the North Park Blocks.
This museum without walls is instigated by MICHELLE COMER - facilitated by Vanport Mosaic/STORY MIDWIFE LAURA LO FORTI and Community Weaver CHISAO HATA - coordinated and designed by Design As Protest/KARIM HASSANEIN, SOPHIA AUSTRIN, EMILY WAKDINGER - and co-created with:
Maxville Heritage Center
Blightxplotation/Cornerstones of Community
Afro Village
This IS Kalapuyan Land/Five Oaks Museum
Oregon Black Pioneers
Oregon Jewish Museum
Japanese American Museum
Portland Chinatown Museum
Portland Black Panthers
The Immigrant Story
It Happened Here
Fair Housing Council
Vanport Mosaic
Oregon Historical Society
Oregon Remembrance Project