Portland+Side+Trips

**Places In and Around Portland to Visit During Your Free Time at ACRL 2015** toc
 * Portland Side Trips **

=Portland’s Walk of the Heroines= The **Walk of the Heroines** honors the women who have made a difference in our lives. Combining art, gardens, text, and a vibrant community space, the Walk of the Heroines is at once functional and beautiful. In a subtly changing landscape, areas of quiet contemplation merge into more active spaces for conversation and public celebration. A visitor entering from either end of the Walk encounters exciting discoveries. Heroines include civil rights activists Beatrice Morrow Cannady and Willie Mae Young Hart, World War II Army pilot Hazel Ying Lee, U.S. Senator Maurine Brown Neuberger, artist Rachael Griffin, suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, and many others.
 * Portland State University** (the Portland streetcar stops on the Park Blocks, at Montgomery and at Market, a short distance from the Walk. The Walk may also be easily reached from the PSU MAX stop and from many buses which run on 5th ave from downtown Portland.)

=Portland Art Museum=
 * 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, 503-226-2811 **
 * **//APEX: Betty LaDuke//:** Betty LaDuke’s art is strongly influenced by her feminist perspective. In a search to understand women and women artists from less industrialized nations, she explores archetypes–universal motifs which weave through her work. Friends of Cameroon describes LaDuke’swork: “There is the woman in her primary biological role as the physical and spiritual nurturer of children, as expressed in her works Spirit Mother and Corn-Mothers. According to the Kristi L. Russell, writing for the Oregon Encyclopedia, “Her work tends to express socialist progress and life’s continuity, from images of America’s civil rights struggles, such as Play Free (1968), to women’s struggles for survival in war-ridden, spoiled lands.” New works and paintings from her 65-year retrospective exhibition, mounted in 2013 at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University, will be presented in her APEX exhibition.
 * **//Classically Modern: The Portraiture of Věra Prášilova Scott//:** “Vera's reputation was of one who was unconventional, somewhat rebellious and, some would say, a sort of blithe spirit. Only a few years later she was seen as a feminist, long before the term was even coined.” -- Frank Munk (Remarks at the Memorial Service held at Reed College, March 23, 1996) Bohemia-born artist Věra Prášilova Scott (1899-1996) gracefully fused the competing aesthetics of Pictorialism and modernism in her photographic portraits produced in New York City, Portland, and Houston, Texas. This installation of more than seventy photographs reveals her skill in creating portraits of striking beauty that subtly combine elements of European modernism, American fashion photography, and the alluring intimacy of fine studio portraiture.
 * **//Breaking Barriers: Japanese Women Print Artists 1950–2000://** For centuries, women were excluded from printmaking in Japan. Circumstances began to change only after World War II (1939–1945), in the context of much larger social transformations. This exhibition focuses on the work of five exceptional women who were pioneers of printmaking in the postwar decades.

=Leach Botanical Garden=
 * 6704 SE 122nd Ave, 503-823-9503 **
 * Lilla Irvin Leach** was an independent field botanist who systematically collected plants throughout Oregon and other western states. Lilla and her husband John traveled more than 1,000 miles of primitive trails expeditions in the Siskiyou Mountains. It was there, on June 14, 1930, that Lilla made her most important discovery, a pink-flowered shrub never before noted by botanists. Lilla later wrote that when she spotted the plant beside the trail, she "dropped to my knees ... I had never seen anything so beautiful before." Two years after its first collection, the plant was officially named Kalmiopsis leachiana, commemorating Lilla and John. The genus Kalmiopsis is endemic to southwestern Oregon and occurs nowhere else in the world. In 1931, John and Lilla Leach purchased property they named Sleepy Hollow, now known as the Leach Botanical Garden. The gift shop is noted for its unique selection of items, including honey from the bees at Leach, Lilla’s special blend of teas, and live plants from the botanical collection.

=Hazel Hall Poetry Garden=
 * NW 22nd between Burnside and Everett, adjacent to Hall’s home**
 * Hazel Hall Park** is a "pocket-park" commemorating the life and work of Oregon poet Hazel Hall. An invalid, Hall began writing at about age 9, and continued writing as a hobby through her teen years. Seeking paid work that could be done at home, she turned to professional sewing, doing fine needlework for wealthy families. Hall worked near the window of an upper room in her family's house in Portland, positioning a small mirror on the windowsill to better observe passersby on the sidewalk. Her writing themes often involved sewing and what she saw from her window. In 1921, she received the Young Poets' Prize from Poetry magazine.

=Central Library=
 * 801 S.W. 10th[[image:Isom_Mary_Frances.jpg width="140" height="224" align="right" caption="Mary Frances Isom"]]**
 * Mary Frances Isom** was “perhaps Oregon’s most remarkable librarian,” who transformed the Library Association of Portland into a major community asset with a national reputation. Isom drafted changes to Oregon law that furthered the free library movement and spearheaded the creation of several statewide and regional library organizations. She helped establish the Oregon Library Commission (now the Oregon State Library) in 1905, and was a founder of both the Oregon Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Penny Hummel, writing in the //Oregon Encyclopedia// continues “When the United States entered World War I, the Library Association of Portland became actively involved, selling war bonds and gathering books for the troops. The refusal of pacifist and assistant librarian M. Louise Hunt to purchase war bonds, however, caused a public outcry in 1918. With Isom’s support, the library board absolved Hunt of disloyalty and supported her right to take an unpopular view. Following this incident, Isom decided to join her profession’s efforts to serve the troops overseas, visiting ninety-three American hospitals during a five-month stay in France in 1918-1919. Starting with one outdated library in 1902, Isom left the county with 17 modern facilities and a complex service network involving 146 schools and 65 other agencies. A year later, the library’s circulation topped 2 million, an astonishing statistic when compared with the 50,531 books circulated in 1901. More than a century later, Multnomah County Library remains one of the most well regarded urban library systems in the country, in part due to the foundational work completed by Isom.”

=Harriet “Hattie” Redmond Grave= Harriet “Hattie” Redmond was a leader in the long struggle for Oregon woman suffrage. Janice Dilg, writes in the //Oregon Encyclopedia// “The right to vote was especially important to Redmond as a black woman living in a state that had codified black exclusion laws in its constitution. Redmond’s work for voting rights helped lay the groundwork for the Black Civil Rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.” Redmond’s civic activities centered on the Oregon Colored Women’s Council (later named the Oregon Colored Women’s Club) and the Portland YWCA. During the campaign for woman suffrage in Oregon in 1912, she was president of the Colored Women’s Equal Suffrage Association. Following the triumph of the woman suffrage vote on November 5, 1912, she used her newly gained right by registering to vote in April 1913. Redmond’s contributions to women’s rights were virtually unknown until uncovered during the 2012 centennial celebration of Oregon woman suffrage. In the years after her death, her grave marker at Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery became buried. Members of the Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery uncovered the marker and replaced it with a headstone honoring Redmond’s life and work with the inscription “Black American suffragist.” Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Lone Fir Cemetery has over 25,000 burials spread over more than 30 acres.
 * Lone Fir Cemetery, Southeast 26th Avenue and Southeast Washington Street**

=Sacagawea Monument= A bronze statue of Sacajawea was the first statue honoring a woman to be unveiled in the United States. In commemoration of the heroic Shoshone Indian woman who helped lead the Lewis and Clark explorers through the mountains of the west, the statue was unveiled on July 7, 1905 at the Lewis and Clark Centennial. Among those present at the event were Susan B. Anthony, Abigail Scott Duniway, and Eva Emery Dye. The project was promoted and paid for by subscriptions solicited nationwide by a group of Portland women headed by **Sarah Ann Shannon Evans**. The committee commissioned Alice Cooper of Denver to sculpt the statue. In April 1906, the statue was placed in its current location. Its inscription reads, "Erected by the women of the United States in memory of the only woman in the Lewis & Clark expedition, and in honor of the pioneer mother of Oregon." Kimberly Jensen writes in the Oregon Encyclopedia that Evans was an active woman suffrage leader in the Oregon campaigns of 1906 and 1912 and wrote the chapter on Oregon for the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, Evans worked within the Oregon Federation of Women’s Clubs to raise funds for Oregon men wounded in the conflict. She served as honorary vice-chair of the Oregon branch of the Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense and coordinated Oregon’s first Liberty Loan drive in 1917. After the war, Evans joined the newly formed League of Women Voters and continued her reform advocacy and work as market inspector.
 * Washington Park, NE 75th & Roselawn St.**

=In Other Words Feminist Community Center=
 * 14 NE Killingsworth St., (503)232-6003, Noon – 7 on Tuesday – Saturday.**
 * In Other Words** is a non-profit, volunteer-run, feminist community center, with a mission of supporting, enriching, and empowering the feminist community through literature, art, and educational and cultural events. Their storefront serves as a book store, a lending library, and a venue for feminist events. Artwork by mixed media artist Sabrina Harris will be featured through the end of March. The bookstore stocks a variety of radical and hard-to-find titles, specializing in feminist issues, but also includes books on health, religion, gardening, sustainability, crafts, and more.