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The Portland Art Museum is hosting the fifth annual event for LGBTQIA+ youth and allies! Meet new people. Explore the exhibition the map is not the territory. Join a drag workshop with Carla Rossi. Create Gender Euphoria self-portraits. Speak your truth at the open mic. See films made by Northwest teens. Make art, make friends, and have fun!
Admission is FREE! Refreshments provided.
Middle school, high school, and college-age are all welcome. GSA/QSA advisors and teachers are welcome, too.
Schedule
Check in and get your Bingo card!
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hoffman Lobby
Welcome to Clown Town: A Drag Workshop with Carla Rossi
4:45 – 5:45 p.m.
Stevens Room
Outside the Frame and Northwest Film Center Present Youth-Made Films and Discussion
5 – 6 p.m.
Whitsell Auditorium
Open Mic Performance Space with Fyre Daway
6 – 7 p.m.
the map is not the territory
Gender Euphoria Self-Portraits with Anna Guyton
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Kinney Room
POWER UP Photobooth
4:30 – 7 p.m.
Stevens Room
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All-gender restrooms are located in the first-floor gift shop and on the fourth floor of the main museum building.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
Steven Young Lee’s artwork often considers his own experience navigating his Korean-American cross-cultural identity through the process of working in ceramics and building installations. In this talk, he will discuss his work and the creative process that brought about his current APEX exhibition at the Museum.
Presented in partnership with both the Asian Art Council and Northwest Art Council.
Purchase tickets
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross.
Please note that this exhibition contains difficult material. It may be helpful to preview the exhibition if you are considering bringing children.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition the map is not the territory.
A Gathering for Educators Across Disciplines
Experience the museum as a space of expression and understanding. Share resources and ideas with fellow educators. Create and interact with art. Address issues of place, belonging, and equity in education and art. Connect the exhibition the map is not the territory to your teaching practices. Celebrate the joy of learning.
Including an opening program with Natchee Blu Barnd (Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies at Oregon State University) exploring key concepts from the exhibition the map is not the territory, including decolonization, place/displacement, belonging, Oregon and the Northwest; teacher-facilitated workshops; experiences in the galleries; and art-making.
Schedule
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.: Creating Land, Power, and Belonging with Natchee Blu Barnd, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies at Oregon State University
This workshop will engage participants with interactive activities to better understand decolonization, land and displacement, and how to implement concrete strategies for the classroom. We will consider: How do race, indigeneity, and culture intersect with geography and belonging? How can we use text, images, and symbols to address cultural biases and dominance via place? How can teachers use our power and influence to create a culture of belonging through spatial awareness?
12:15 – 1 p.m.: Lunch
1 – 1:45 p.m.: Experience the map is not the territory exhibition
1:45 – 3 p.m.: Teacher-facilitated small-group workshops connecting ideas from Natchee Barnd’s workshop and the exhibition to teaching practices
*Note: Do you have an idea or activity relating to the program topics that you would like to facilitate? There will be opportunities to sign up to facilitate on the spot.
3 – 4 p.m.: Celebration and wrap up with art-making, music, and dance
This program is free for all educators and students. Lunch will be provided. PDU credits are available.
Space is limited. Registration required.
Reserve ticketsThis program is part of the Teacher Leadership Initiative made possible through a generous grant from the Fred W. Fields Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
We welcome babies and their caregivers beginning at 10 a.m. The first tour begins at roughly 10:30 a.m., or when we have a large enough group ready to go. The second tour begins at 11 a.m. Baby Morning’s home base remains open until noon with toys, games, and books, providing a welcoming, accommodating space free of worries. Caregivers are also welcome to leave belongings here while on the tour. Carriers are recommended while in the galleries, but not required.
Session 1 Session 2Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition the map is not the territory.
Fernanda D’Agostino, Sophia Wright Emigh, and Jaleesa Johnston will activate D’Agostino’s the map is not the territory installation with their collaborative performance work “In/Body.” Developed over the past year through residencies at Open Signal and Performance Works Northwest, “In/Body” explores the intersection of embodied generational memory and our current crises of mass migration and climate change. Esteemed Portland performer/choreographer Linda K. Johnson will join as a special guest.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
Charlene Vickers presents her “Diviners Protection Performance” in which she incorporates cedar spear and quill “Diviners” in a series of performative actions, spoken word, and song to make a space of protection and care of Indigenous women’s bodies and voices.The performance will take place in the map is not the territory exhibition galleries.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition the map is not the territory.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
We welcome babies and their caregivers beginning at 10 a.m. The first tour begins at roughly 10:30 a.m., or when we have a large enough group ready to go. The second tour begins at 11 a.m. Baby Morning’s home base remains open until noon with toys, games, and books, providing a welcoming, accommodating space free of worries. Caregivers are also welcome to leave belongings here while on the tour. Carriers are recommended while in the galleries, but not required.
Session 1 Session 2
Not Fragile features artists from across the Pacific Northwest who use glass in innovative ways to impart messages of strength, resilience, and insubordination.
Join Not Fragile artist-curator RYAN! Feddersen (Okanogan/Arrow Lakes) for a gallery talk sharing insights on exhibition themes and artists.
Purchase ticketsExplore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition the map is not the territory.