Please join us for an evening celebration of the expanded Vanport Mosaic exhibit Vanport: A Surge of Social Change, on display at Pittock Mansion through July 12, 2021.
The event is hosted by community weaver Chisao Hata, and made possible by the generous support of Oregon Historical Society.
We are honored to be joined by Ms. Mariah Taylor and Mr. Edward Washington, Vanport survivors and Oregon’s treasures.
- Explore with us the complex history of Oregon’s second largest city and largest WWII federal housing project, destroyed by a flood in 1948
- Get a glimpse of what you can experience during your visit to the exhibit
- Learn about the evolution of this community-based history-preservation effort, and how this expanded exhibit aims to honor the legacy of the multicultural and multiracial city of Vanport.
- Ask questions, share stories, and join our memory activism community!
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VANPORT: A SURGE OF SOCIAL CHANGE exhibit is the culmination of six years of collaborative research and community partnerships, and was developed by Vanport Mosaic co-founder Story Midwife Laura Lo Forti, Public Historian Greta Smith Wisnewski, and Pittock Mansion Interim Senior Manager of Exhibits, Programs, and Collections Tim Hecox.
Reserve tickets to experience the exhibition in-person. Free with museum entrance: https://pittockmansion.org/visit/
Vanport Mosaic is a memory-activism platform that amplifies, honors, presents and preserves the silenced histories that surround us in order to understand our present and write a new chapter where we all belong. www.vanportmosaic.org || info@vanportmosaic
Pittock Mansion is a historic house museum in Portland, Oregon operated by the Pittock Mansion Society in collaboration with Portland Parks & Recreation. The mission of the Pittock Mansion Society is to inspire understanding and stewardship of Portland history through Pittock Mansion, its collections, and programs. www.pittockmansion.org
Run time:
90 min
Admission:
By donation - Only 40 spots available