A break from the bad news

Teressa Raiford (main blip) through her organization, Don't Shoot Portland, has persuaded an art gallery to produce an art show like no other: in which many photographs of Don't Shoot events are slapped up on the walls with wheatpaste, creating a collage effect over the walls of the gallery (see extra).  All the creativity--the photographs, the cardboard signs, the t-shirts, the embroidered hats--is attributed to the community, not to individuals. No names. No art for sale. No spin. No commercialism. No ego. Only shared creativity and imagination. Just the way I have always thought art should be. I cannot tell you how much joy it gives me to see this vision realized. Note the hand-embroidered hat Teressa is wearing, the screen-printed mask. 

Because of Covid-19, only three people are allowed in the gallery at a time, with doors and windows wide open. People line up outside and wait their turn to go in. The line snakes around the block.

The show opened Thursday this week and will run all month.