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Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Presented in conjunction with Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal\u2026<\/em><\/a>, on view in the Main Building, Question Bridge: Black Males<\/em> is a project by Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayet\u00e9 Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question Bridge: Black Males<\/em> is a documentary in multiple forms: a gallery installation, a website, a book, and a curriculum. It presents diverse experiences of Black men through a video question-and-answer exchange, a \u201cquestion bridge,\u201d to break down stereotypes of Black male identity perpetuated by America\u2019s white dominant culture. Thomas and his collaborators traveled across the United States, recording questions from nearly 160 men, bringing the questions to others to answer, and filming additional questions from those respondents that other participants, in turn, could later address. The project enables a large group of men to speak to each other across geographic, economic, political, and generational divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tragic death of his cousin Songha Willis drove Thomas\u2019s commitment to making Question Bridge: Black Males<\/em>: \u201cI [had] struggled for eight years to find creative ways to deal with my cousin\u2019s murder and the larger genocide of African American males. For me the problem seems tied to the overall myth of Black maleness. The image of the Black male created by commercial media and historical suggestion is a fraud. My aim is to expose it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The single-channel projection creates the sensation of a virtual conversation, with participants speaking across time and distance, and from their own lived experience. Their voices are key: being heard, not just seen, reaffirms each man\u2019s subjectivity and counteracts dangerous generalizations about group identity. In Thomas\u2019s human-centered art, the elementary call to hear and see one another\u2014to recognize each other as unique yet interdependent human beings\u2014is undeniably necessary to overcome racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by Sara Krajewski, The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. The Portland Business Alliance has installed way-finding signs which direct you to the cultural district, where the Museum is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is generally plenty of street parking surrounding the Museum. These spaces range from 1 \u2013 4 hours and can be paid for using a credit card or the Parking Kitty app<\/a>. There are also surface parking lots, and parking garages within 1 \u2013 4 blocks of the Museum. The closest surface lot is located at SW Main St. between SW 10th Ave. and Park Ave, and there are dedicated accessible and van accessible spaces. This lot accepts credit card or the Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n