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SPRING BREAKOUT: Audits Matter ☝🏽

🙋🏽‍♀️We’ve been using for years - it’s how we use data to investigate local city inequality on the record - from policies, to programs and bureaus.

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During this educational open house, we will have workers from the Auditors Office share recent report findings from the Arts Tax, Climate Justice, Parks and Citywide Asset Management audits and other recent systemic reviews.

🔎Learn about reporting government misconduct, the Good Government Fraud Hotline, how to suggest future audits and more.

A city audit is an independent, objective assessment of a municipality’s financial records, operations and performance, conducted to ensure accountability, efficiency and compliance with laws.

The Portland City Auditor is an independently elected office responsible for ensuring accountability, transparency and efficiency in city government. In addition to conducting performance audits of city bureaus and programs, the office also investigates complaints against city services.

👏🏾‼️ Last weekend to see this amazing exhibition ‘If We Could Talk’ by local members of our community in partnership with Oregon Metro!!

Thank you The Oregonian / OregonLive.com 🗞️
https://youtu.be/i4AY9U3-7Ak

The BLACK Gallery PDX Taishona Carpenter doesn’t consider herself an artist. Yet, art is almost her whole life. It’s because she’s not only the director, but also a founder and cu...

🎨 For Artists of Color
An Unaffiliated Exhibition of Student artwork, By and for Students of Color
Hosted by The Black Gallery

Exhibition Dates: February 22nd, 2026 - March 7th, 2026
Opening Reception: First Thursday, March 5th 2026 6pm - 9pm

What is art without activism? What is art without resistance? What is art without protest?

For Artists of Color is an exhibition showcasing artwork from local Portland-Based artists. This exhibition is curated exclusively by and for students of color. On February 14th, 2025 a letter was sent out by the United States Department of Education.

This letter imposed a view of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as being discriminatory towards white students because they cannot “equally benefit” from race and ethnicity based measures that intended to create a more equitable playing field for students of color.

Many universities and arts organizations pushed back and fought against this letter, suing the department of education. The students in this exhibition were told that their institution wasn’t fighting for them.

Rather than support their community of student artists and defend their right to hold exhibitions solely for the Black, Indigenous and community of color they were told they couldn’t. This exhibition stands as a counter, a push back against them, if you don’t want our community then you won’t have us.