Yale Union was a nonprofit contemporary art center in southeast Portland, Oregon, United States.

In 2020, the organization announced it would transfer the rights of its building to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF).

It was led by a desire to support artists, propose new modes of production, and stimulate the ongoing public discourse around art.

[4] Founded by Curtis Knapp and Aaron Flint Jamison, the artist-run Yale Union opened to the public on May 6, 2011[5] after three years of development.

Founded in 1971 by artists Jay Backstrand, Mel Katz, and Michele Russo, PCVA brought influential contemporary art to 117 NW Fifth Avenue between 1972 and 1987.

Mary Beebe became the director in 1973 and during her prolific tenure exhibited Michael Asher, Allan Kaprow, John Baldessari, Vito Acconci, William Wegman, Joan Jonas, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Terry Riley, Eleanor Antin, Phil Niblock, Nam Jun Paik, Robert Irwin, Meredith Monk, and Bruce Nauman, along with many Northwest artists.

Many of the works, epistles, and internal documents are lent by the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Family Library, which has housed the PCVA archive since 1988.

[7] From 1972 to 1977, Wex compiled an archive consisting of thousands of banal and clandestine photographs of women and men in the streets of Hamburg.

At the center of both the panels and the book is a wide disputation about how we create and present ourselves, and the degree to which gender-specific conditioning and hierarchies are reflected through everyday pose, gesture, and pre-verbal communication.

Wex's photo panels were shown in 2009 at Focal Point Gallery in London and in 2012 at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The program included a screening of Helke Sander's film The All-Around Reduced Personality (1978); a reading by Chris Kraus; a screening of Chantal Akerman's film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975); and a talk by Avigail Moss.

On March 30, 2013, Fisher introduced a new state of Screening Room, (1968/2013), a film that can only be shown in the auditorium for which it was made.

Morgan Fisher (born in 1942, Washington, DC) teaches film at the European Graduate School.

Fisher has had solo exhibitions at Portikus, Frankfurt; Raven Row, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Materials used in the exhibition included archival newsprint and twenty-two tons of lithographic limestone extracted from a site in Iowa for use in the show.

He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated.