Design as Protest Collective with their display.

Much gratitude to the 2021 Vanport Mosaic Festival for inviting us to host projects by Design as Protest collective and Five Oaks Museum throughout the duration of the festival.

As we are one of many sites being activated, we encourage you to take a memory-activism walk on North Park Blocks, and immerse yourself in Oregon's silenced histories, as told by underrepresented and historically marginalized communities.

About Design as Protest collective:

Anti-Racist designers who are dedicated to Design Justice in the built environment.

Their window display features information about their Design Justice Demands. Organized and designed by Karim Hassanein.

About Five Oaks Museum:

The museum is a gathering place of vibrant art, culture and storytelling — a resource for all who are curious about the world around us.

Their window display featues images from This IS Kalapuyan Land , which opened in 2019 as a physical museum exhibition by Guest Curator Steph Littlebird Fogel (Grand Ronde, Kalapuya) and became an online exhibition in 2020. Fogel annotated panels from the museum’s prior exhibit on Kalapuyan peoples, curated contemporary Native artwork into the exhibition, and added historical content from David G. Lewis, Phd, who is a preeminent scholar on Western Oregon tribes. The exhibition prompts critical thinking around representation of Indigenous history and identity in non-Indigenous institutions.