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September 2020 Newsletter
Inside this issue: Re-imagining the Museum Reopening, Museum staff and board member updates, and Back to School.
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Social Media Takeover: Pace Taylor
Pace Taylor, an artist featured in Gender Euphoria, shares their explorations of queer, non-gendered intimacy and touch throughout time in their pastel artwork. This takeover took place from September 7-12, 2020.
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Social Media Takeover: Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.
Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr., describes their art practice around food and community, including their family influence, work with Portland youth, and food-based social practice events. This takeover took place from August 23 to 28, 2020.
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Remote Learning
Five Oaks Museum is excited to share our upcoming learning units and remote learning resources from some of our favorite PDX partners!
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Social Media Takeover: Rya Hueston
Rya Hueston (Diné/Hopi), participating artist in Gender Euphoria, describes how they use personal history as a tool to uncovering non-white centric historical narratives, and de-colonize gender as we know it through artmaking and research practices. This takeover took place from August 10 to 15, 2020.
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August 2020 Newsletter
Inside this issue: Gender Euphoria August events, announcing our upcoming exhibition DISplace and guest curators, and our values-driven budget
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2020-21 FY Values-Driven Budget
When creating our 2020-21 fiscal year budget, Five Oaks Museum put our money behind our ethics by categorizing our expenses by our museum’s five values: Body, Land, Truth, Justice, and Community.
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2019-20 School Year Programs Reach
Despite a tumultuous academic year that included an organizational overhaul (2019) and a global pandemic (2020), our learning programs engaged over 1,400 people before we closed our museum doors on March 14th!
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