[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2024-02-09

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Oregon Heritage News 2024-02-09
In this Issue:

  *   Oregon Heritage Webinar:  Windows: Repair or Replacement, Feb. 21
  *   2024 Oregon Heritage Conference Highlight: Make Space for these awesome workshops!
  *   NAPC Webinar: Incorporating Art Into Historic Districts, Feb. 29
  *   New exhibit at Japanese Museum of Oregon explores the life of Japanese American activist Bob Shimabukuro
  *   2024 Oregon Stewardship Award - now open for nominations
  *   Old Aurora Colony seeks Program Coordinator
  *   Historical Research Associates seeks Architectural Historians and Archaeologist
  *   2024 Willamette Valley Project Student Conservation Association Cultural Resources Internship


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Oregon Heritage Webinar:  Windows: Repair or Replacement, Feb. 21

Windows: Repair or Replacement | February 21, 2024 at 1PM
Windows are always hot topics when talking about historic buildings.  There is a significant amount of information out there on historic and replacement windows, but who do you believe?  Joy Sears, Restoration Specialist with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office will be giving a two-hour presentation on windows, covering various issues with wood windows: myths, repairs, upgrades that can be done, and considerations when talking about possible replacements.
Register here to join us for Windows: Repair or Replacement!<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcOGurDojH9BddB1Y0R9AU3d9z4MGXJx6>


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2024 Oregon Heritage Conference Highlight: Make Space for these awesome workshops!
Registration will be opening soon for the 2024 Oregon Heritage Conference!
Make Space.
April 17-20, Forest Grove and surrounding area
Check out the great workshops you'll be able to attend!

  *   Planting Seeds of Preservation: Window Workshops to Engage the Community This is a combination mini historic window repair and public engagement workshop lead by Vintage Window Restoration and the Clatsop Community College Historic Preservation Program. This workshop is great for local historic preservation programs, museums, and others who would like to encourage the community to care for historic properties.
  *   Reflective Conversations: Facilitating Challenging Conversations with your Board and Staff Learn effective ways to guide your board and staff through conversations that might be sensitive, uncomfortable, or just complex. Oregon Humanities will share their excellent information in this workshop great for any heritage organization.
  *   Learn, Land, Love: Rooting History for Care in the Land This session will bring together diverse perspectives connecting history, storytelling, and land care for a roundtable discussion. It is paired with a Five Oaks Learning Outing tour also hosted by the team at Five Oaks Museum.
  *   Oral History Projects on a Shoestring Hands-on workshop designed to equip participants with practical skills for developing low cost oral history projects within their cultural organizations. Led by experienced professionals from the University of Oregon Libraries and Oregon State University Libraries & Press, this workshop will orient participants to best practices for every stage of the oral history life cycle.
  *   Exploring Exhibit Design and Creation from a DIY Perspective We are excited to have Oregon Museums Association join us in Forest Grove. Attend this workshop and learn how to create modern, exciting exhibits on a tight budget. The $10.00 registration is separate from the conference registration and can be accessed here<https://oregonmuseums.org/event-5596165>.

Visit the Oregon Heritage Conference webpage<https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Pages/heritageconference.aspx> for more information and stay tuned for open registration soon!


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NAPC Webinar: Incorporating Art Into Historic Districts, Feb. 29
Thursday, February 29, 2024 * 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Learn how Cincinnati and Covington have incorporated art within historic neighborhoods to help with revitalization efforts, tell community stories, and highlight the architecture. We will highlight The Artworks Mural Program and BLINK, the largest art and projecting mapping event in the nation as well as an entrepreneur and community activist who has woven art into development. Discussion will include funding, creating the installations, and working within local guidelines.
CE Credits: 1.5 AIA/AICP
When: Thursday, February 29, 2024 * 10:00 a.m. * Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Language: English
Who can attend? Anyone with the event link can attend
Ticket Price: $15.00
Learn more/register<https://www.bigmarker.com/national-alliance-of-preserv/Incorporating-Art-Into-Historic-Districts>


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New exhibit at Japanese Museum of Oregon explores the life of Japanese American activist Bob Shimabukuro
Bob Shimabukuro, who passed away in 2021, will be remembered in an exhibition dedicated to his life of activism, woodworking and community-building at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon (JAMO). The exhibition, "Craft, Community and Care: The Art and Legacy of Bob Shimabukuro," opens Feb. 17, 2024, and was created as a collaborative effort with the Shimabukuro family. Bob Shimabukuro was most well-known for his leadership and activism in the Northwest's Japanese American Redress Movement in the late 1970s and 1980s, but he was also an accomplished furniture maker and newspaper columnist.
"We are proud to bring this exhibition of local hero Bob Shimabukuro to Portland in collaboration with the Shimabukuro family," says Hanako Wakatsuki-Chong, Executive Director of the Japanese American Museum of Oregon. "As an artist, activist and community leader, he was able to find connections across his many projects through the values of care and social justice that guided his actions. We hope this first public, in-person celebration of his life and work will be a reminder of the importance of these values for all of us."
An Okinawan American who grew up in Maui, Bob Shimabukuro moved to Portland in 1963 to attend Reed College. He studied philosophy and worked on stage design and sets for the theater department, where he got his start in woodworking. He continued his education in a cabinet shop and later as an apprentice, eventually opening Shimabukuro Distinctive Furniture. In 1979, he applied those skills to designing and building the interior of Tanuki, a yakitori restaurant founded by Michael Vidor. He later became a chef and co-owner there, a testament to his unusual variety of talents and interests.
Shimabukuro is most well-known as an activist in the Northwest's Japanese American Redress Movement; he helped survivors prepare their testimonies, a significant factor in the final success of the movement. He wrote a book about the movement, "Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese American Redress," and was an organizer for the first Portland Day of Remembrance at the Expo Center in 1979. The opening of "Craft, Community and Care" coincides with the annual event, which honors the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in the U.S. during World War II.
Throughout his life, Shimabukuro employed a variety of tools in service to his activism. He honed his craft as a journalist while based in Los Angeles as editor of the national Japanese American Citizen League's newspaper, Pacific Citizen, in the mid-1980s. He then moved to Seattle to care for his brother, Sam, during a long struggle with AIDS. After Sam died in 1988, Bob co-founded the nonprofit Asian Pacific AIDS Council. He continued his advocacy in his columns Bull Session and Fo' Real for Seattle's International Examiner and campaigned for such diverse causes as the end of apartheid in South Africa, universal healthcare and culturally relevant ways of addressing domestic violence.
"Craft, Community and Care" opens to the public on Saturday, February 17 and will be on view through April 14. The exhibition is generously supported by The Lamb-Baldwin Foundation and the Portland JACL.
Exhibition Events
Threads of Remembrance: A History of Activism, Community and Reparations
Day of Remembrance program hosted by the Portland JACL and JAMO
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, 2-4 p.m.
Lincoln Recital Hall
Portland State University
1620 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97201
More info: pdxjacl.org/dor<https://www.pdxjacl.org/dor/>
Resources
Images and exhibition press information on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ruuJvxqi6EbvFjSqyOaW3AkuB0FLvhnq?usp=sharing>
Japanese American Museum of Oregon exhibition page<https://jamo.org/exhibits/shimabukuro/>

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2024 Oregon Stewardship Award - now open for nominations
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History will accept nominations for the seventh annual Oregon Stewardship Award through March 10, 2024. Organizations are invited to self-nominate or submit a nomination on behalf of an allied project.

Led by the Museum Advisory Council<https://mnch.uoregon.edu/museum-advisory-council>, the Oregon Stewardship Award recognizes an environmental or cultural heritage project that involves the community and aligns with the museum's mission to enhance knowledge and inspire stewardship of our past, present, and future. The $1000 award includes recognition of the project in the Oregon Heroes section of the museum's Explore Oregon<https://mnch.uoregon.edu/exhibits/explore-oregon> exhibit.
Online nomination forms are available on the museum's website<https://mnch.uoregon.edu/learn/oregon-stewardship-award> January 29 - March 10, 2024.
Eligible projects are Oregon-based and relate directly to Oregon's environment or cultural heritage. To be considered, projects must have meaningful community impact and be ongoing or completed during the 2023 calendar year.
The museum invites groups and individuals to self-nominate their projects. Nominations will also be accepted from third parties wishing to recognize group or individual stewardship of Oregon's environment or cultural heritage. Please spread the word!
The 2024 awardee will be announced in April. Learn more<https://mnch.uoregon.edu/learn/oregon-stewardship-award>.

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Old Aurora Colony seeks Program Coordinator
The Aurora Colony Historical Society is now hiring a part-time, seasonal Program Coordinator to support and assist our Education Program Manager and our Stauffer-Will Farm Living History Program. Accepting applications through February 23rd!
Full job description here<https://www.auroracolony.org/s/Program-Coordinator-2024.pdf>.
Send your resume and cover letters to info at auroracolony.org<mailto:info at auroracolony.org?>.

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Historical Research Associates seeks Architectural Historians and Archaeologist
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN 1
HRA is seeking an Architectural Historian 1 to join a collaborative team of experts. HRA welcomes candidates to express interest in any of our offices in Washington (Seattle, Spokane) or Oregon (Portland, Eugene).
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN 2
HRA is seeking an Architectural Historian 2 to join a collaborative team of experts. HRA welcomes candidates to express interest in any of our offices in Washington (Seattle, Spokane) or Oregon (Portland, Eugene).
ARCHAEOLOGIST 2
HRA is seeking an Archaeologist 2 to join a collaborative team of experts in our Portland office. This is a salaried, full-time position with an anticipated salary of $70,723-$94,273 depending on experience and qualifications.
More information on these positions and application instructions can be found here<https://hrassoc.com/about-us/employment/>.

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2024 Willamette Valley Project Student Conservation Association Cultural Resources Internship
Position: Cultural Resources Intern
Program Dates: 04/29/2024 - 04/27/2025 (52 weeks)
Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Willamette Valley Project
Duty Station: Lowell, Oregon
Member Benefits:

  *   $375 weekly living allowance
  *   $40 weekly commuting allowance
  *   $2,500 duty travel and equipment reimbursement
  *   One-time round-trip travel allowance of UP TO $650 for candidates who incur relocation expenses (not available for candidates who do not relocate)
  *   $950 monthly housing allowance (12 months of housing)
  *   AmeriCorps eligible ($6,895 education award) after completing at least 1700 service hours.
  *   The interns may attend trainings, local workshops, or complete other online classes.
  *   First Aid and CPR training may be provided.

More information: https://myjobs.adp.com/scacareers/cx/job-details?reqId=5001016761506


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