Our friends Wyrd War have brought a very special treat to Portland: The Fierce Ghost Eats Human Region is an exhibition of Ghanaian horror movie posters from the collection of @deadlypreygallery. The artists’ unique interpretations of American films (hand-painted on flour sacks) will delight you with their can-do spirit - check out the exhibition this week only! Visit @wyrdwar on Instagram for details.

Frederick Douglass - the most photographed American of the 19th century - was an advocate for photography as a means of establishing African American identity and countering the racist and stereotypical depictions (such as lynching postcards and minstrel imagery) that dominated the popular culture at that time. Representing: Photographs of, by, and for African Americans at the Portland Art Museum brings together vernacular portraits and snapshots from several different collections, including the family albums of a WWII Tuskegee Airman from the Albina neighborhood of Portland.
Representing is on view at the Portland Art Museum through December 3, 2017

Do you want to make a donation to directly help the victims of the Northern California wildfires, AND get a chance at winning a Jusscope Evil Dead 2 art print autographed by Bruce Campbell at the same time? My friend Marissa of Chick-a-boom Vintage has been working around the clock to gather and distribute the supplies most urgently needed for the thousands of fire evacuees in shelters in the Sonoma County area, and we’d like to raise at least $100 to help her continue to buy vital supplies for her community. To enter our fundraising raffle:

1. ​MAKE A DONATION in increments of $10 at https://www.paypal.me/creepingmuseum. (If possible please use the “Friends and Family” option to minimize fees.) For every $10 you donate, you’ll be entered into the raffle once. ($30 donation = 3 raffle “tickets.”) 100% of funds will go directly to Marissa to purchase vital supplies for fire evacuees, including bedding, breathing masks, and food for people and pets.
2. COMMENT “Donated” on our auction post on Instagram.

The raffle ends at 12pm on Wednesday, October 18. I’ll announce the winner on Wednesday evening.

Movie Madness needs our help! The wonderful Hollywood Theatre is running a campaign to save this iconic video store and fold it into its own nonprofit organization, preserving the shop’s irreplaceable collection and using it to engage the community in new ways. I don't want to live in a city without an old-school video store that has 80,000 titles (twice as many as Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu combined!) and original movie costumes and a “Canadian Horror” section. If you don’t either, visit hollywoodtheatre.org/moviemadness.