T. Lulani Arquette thought she was just catching up with a professional acquaintance she hadn’t seen in a long time.
Instead, as the executive director of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation sat with Yoko Ott, then the interim executive director of the Yale Union contemporary art gallery in Southeast Portland, she learned that the Yale Union board wanted to transfer its 30,000-square-foot building, valued at $5 million and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, to her organizati