Don’t Shoot Portland presents Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience at Holding Contemporary. The multimedia installation is part of the University of Oregon Center for Art Research (CFAR) program series HABITS OF DENIAL, featuring research, exhibitions, and public programs around the theme of “access.”

Feeling Documents is an installation by Don't Shoot Portland that creates a timeline of artistry and politics using social trends, music, art and culture to promote each of their intersections to social justice. Art communicates revolutionary actions and inspiration for social change.

‘Race in America: A Liberated Archives Discussion with LaTanya S. Autry’ will be held on Monday, February 21, 2022 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Pacific via YouTube Live.

The exhibit will open on Thursday, February 17 and run through Sunday, March 27, 2022. Gallery hours will be Thursday–Sunday, noon–5pm. Safety and social distancing requirements will still be in place. Visit our website to schedule an appointment

Don’t Shoot Portland is a social justice organization that uses art, education and community engagement to create social change. Since 2014, their free programming and advocacy work has been done to promote civic participation in the spaces of racial justice and human rights. www.dontshootpdx.org

This exhibition is made possible by the University of Oregon, Center for Art Research (CFAR) and Curators-in-Residence, Tiffany Harker and Iris Williamson. Their 2021-22 program, titled HABITS OF DENIAL, features research, exhibitions, and public programs around the theme of “access.” Collaborating artists investigate specific issues within larger systems of power and their embedded exclusionary impacts. Four anchoring programs will examine access through lenses of language and communication, technology and economies, communities and archives, and Indigeneity and institutions. Residency and related programming are made possible by The Ford Family Foundation.

Special thanks to: Multnomah County Archives for use of loaned items, journals and legal documents; Andrew Wang, Art and Architecture Librarian; Kate Thornhill, Digital Scholarship Librarian; and Franny Gaede, Director of Digital Scholarship Services at UO Libraries Art & Design Library and Digital Research, Education, and Media (DREAM) Lab.