For more than ten years, AnAkA has been documenting liberation movements, healers, artists and revolutionaries across North America, South & Central America, Africa and the Caribbean. AnAkA is the founder of AKTIV8 Creative Research Center, a sacred wisdom movement focused on strengthening the heartbeat of the global Indigenous movements and rituals of our current time. As a gender fluid Afro-Indigenous person, AnAkA is focused on reclaiming ancestral memory and holistically empowering those preserving their own cultural wisdoms. For years, he’s been standing strong at eighteen inches, and he has no plans to move.ĪnAkA is a holistic world builder, story doula, film director, photographer and creator of Angel Music. He sees his community as a yardstick, with police at zero inches and Black people at thirty-six. He’s fought for fair housing and against forced bussing, for equity in arts funding and against environmental racism, and above all, he has worked to bridge the gap between the Black community and Portland police. Brown has worked just about every issue affecting Black Portlanders. And as his friends like to say: once he started talking, he never shut up. At some point, he set down his camera and started talking. Through his pictures, he met so many people and learned of the many challenges facing Portland’s Black community. Brown landed in Portland, Oregon, where he began taking pictures for a local paper. After twenty years of service, during which he lived everywhere from Texas to Germany to the Philippines, Mr. Panelist Biosīorn in Harlem in 1939, Richard Brown joined the Air Force at age seventeen. The series aims to highlight artists and other creative thinkers working in photo-based practices. This endowed biennial lecture series was established with funds donated by Ed and Sue Cooley in memory of Alan Ostrow, who died in 1984. This program does not include general Museum admissions. Join curator and photographer, Intisar Abioto, for a moderated discussion that examines the importance of Black image-making in rectifying historic narratives and affirming Black communal legacies with artists Richard Brown, mia charnelle, Kelly Ruthe Johnson and AnAkA Morris. In honor of the historic Black Artists of Oregon exhibition, The Alan Ostrow Memorial talk closes the show with a panel discussion that centers Black photographic practices in the Portland area.
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