Graffiti As Resistance — The BLACK Gallery PDX

916 NW Flanders ST, Portland, OR
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Graffiti As Resistance

August 7 - September 4, 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. Please email info@theblackgallerypdx.com for future 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