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shamsud-din featured on art beat

Check out this episode of Oregon Art Beat, on muralist Isaka Shamsud-Din. Art Beat follows Isaka as he creates a new series of paintings for the Laura Russo Gallery and explains how he teaches Portland State University students the meaning of self-expression. Isaka is a guest speaker at Walls of Pride, a bus tour of [...]

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report back on walls of pride

Despite a doom and gloom forecast, the weather Gods were with us last Friday as a group of 20+ bike riders braved the weather for the Walls of Pride tour. Our bike karma prevailed, and we were treated to a beautiful fall day of learning about Portland’s African American public artists. Among the stops were [...]

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last call for walls of pride bike ride, this fri

Want to learn about African American culture in Portland? Interested in learning more about murals in the city? What better way to experience the history of this vital culture than to bike to over a dozen works of art, meet the artists and hear from curators of an exhibition on the murals. All this, plus [...]

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