Graffiti As Resistance
August 7 - September 28, 2025
Graffiti As Resistance is a photographic exhibition featuring the plywood mural panels from the Apple Store in downtown Portland. Previously shown at PCC in December 2024, the panels became a space for memorializing lives lost to police brutality, racial discrimination and state violence. This exhibit centers those most impacted while amplifying ongoing calls for racial justice from past and present.
Photographs of the murals and accompanying research, including a de-stall process report from conservator Samantha Springer, will also be on display.
The Apple store panels began as a mural by local artist Emma Berger before growing to hold countless artistic responses that included calls to action from community members participating in the 2020 uprising and memorials to many of the Black lives that have been lost in Portland.
The exhibit opens on August 7, 2025 with a First Thursday reception taking place from 5 to 7pm.
The gallery is open Thursday through Sunday from 12pm to 5pm. Please email info@theblackgallerypdx.com for appointments.
Did you contribute to these historic murals? Contact Don’t Shoot Portland!
Mural artists known:
Emma Berger / @flatrabbitstudio
Atliöúx Tchèn / @atliouxart
Damon Smyth / @damonsmythart
Sagan Newham / @sagangenesis
Jenn Thompson / @yslives
Salomee Souag / @_________solace
Valerie Wrede