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From exhibition openings, guest lectures and gallery tours to family programs, community events and screenings of the world’s most impactful films—the PMA is your place to get together with family, friends, and loved ones.
All programs and events take place in-person at the Portland Museum of Art unless otherwise noted.
PMA Picks
Our favorite upcoming events, programs, and experiences. You might even say they’re curated.
Join Erin Damon, Director of Collections and Head Registrar, for an in-gallery tour about collection care of artwork seen in Jeremy Frey: Woven.
Soloists and ensembles will be placed in different locations throughout the PMA. You determine which way to go and what to hear in this musical labyrinth but beware of pop-up partitas, surprise suites, and singing sirens.
Contemporaries members are invited to a tour of Jeremy Frey: Woven with Ramey Mize, followed by a reception at the Cumberland Club.
The PMA will be open for free for the whole weekend with special programming ahead of the Pride parade (10am - noon) and outside the museum with sidewalk chalk, stickers, tattoos, face paint, and a poster board decorating station.
Please join the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Portland Museum of Art as we honor the legacy and ongoing transformative force of Black America’s creativity, transcendency, and liberation in a Juneteenth poetry reading.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
Join the Portland Museum of Art and Bach Virtuosi Festival for our third annual free concert performed by graduate students from The Juilliard School and Eastman School of Music.
Join Passamaquoddy Artist Jeremy Frey for a live demonstration and insight into his basket weaving process.
Director's Circle members are invited to a tour of Jeremy Frey exhibition with Ramey Mize, followed by a reception at the Cumberland Club.
Join Passamaquoddy Artist Jeremy Frey and Ramey Mize, Assistant Curator of American Art, as they take you on an in-gallery tour of Jeremy Frey: Woven.
Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.
The party of the season is free for Director's Circle and Contemporaries, $75 for members
Full Calendar
Access for All on Third Thursdays
Every third Thursday of the month the PMA is free throughout the entire day and during extended hours, making Access for All last from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with an evening party with musicians, food trucks, artists, and more.
Free Fridays
We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.
PMA Films
Experience Maine’s best selection of indie, foreign, art house, and award-winning cinema you can’t find anywhere else.
135 minutes. Rated R. Directed by John Sayles. In English. Followed by Q&A with John Sayles, Maggie Renzi, and Chris Cooper.
Advance registration for this event has reached capacity. A limited number of seats may become available at the door.
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town. All BFF screenings are free and open to the public!
Running Time: 105 minutes. Followed by Q&A with Jared Lank, Connie Shi, Matthew Tyler, Marianne Leone, Mariah Hernandez-Fitch, and Chris Cooper.
A lovingly curated selection of short films from the Bates Film Festival, followed by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers. All BFF screenings are free and open to the public!
151 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Justine Triet. In English and French with English subtitles.
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness. All BFF screenings are free and open to the public!
103 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ethan Hawke. In English. DCP.
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
103 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ethan Hawke. In English. DCP.
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
103 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ethan Hawke. In English. DCP.
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
138 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. In English. DCP.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s deliriously entertaining backstage drama kicks off a monthlong series, inspired by “Peggy Bacon: Biting, Never Bitter” (opening June 14), about female artists navigating their big city ambitions.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English. DCP.
Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, this documentary examines how John Singer Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture, and fashion.
100 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Don Hertzfeldt. In English. DCP.
Legendary animator Don Hertzfeldt’s (It’s Such a Beautiful Day) staggeringly inventive and profound 2015-2020 trilogy screens with his brand-new short film, ME.
100 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Don Hertzfeldt. In English. DCP.
Legendary animator Don Hertzfeldt’s (It’s Such a Beautiful Day) staggeringly inventive and profound 2015-2020 trilogy screens with his brand-new short film, ME.
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Agnès Varda. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
An enduring classic of the French New Wave about a pop star anxiously awaiting the results of a biopsy, Agnès Varda’s film continues a monthlong series about female artists navigating their big city ambitions.
100 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Don Hertzfeldt. In English. DCP.
Legendary animator Don Hertzfeldt’s (It’s Such a Beautiful Day) staggeringly inventive and profound 2015-2020 trilogy screens with his brand-new short film, ME.
100 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Don Hertzfeldt. In English. DCP.
Legendary animator Don Hertzfeldt’s (It’s Such a Beautiful Day) staggeringly inventive and profound 2015-2020 trilogy screens with his brand-new short film, ME.
77 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami. In Persian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Trenchant and humorous, this new Iranian film follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities.
77 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami. In Persian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Trenchant and humorous, this new Iranian film follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities.
77 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami. In Persian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Trenchant and humorous, this new Iranian film follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities.
88 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Chantal Akerman. In French with English subtitles.
A stunning document of 1970s New York, urban alienation, striving, and familial bonds, Chantal Akerman’s landmark documentary continues a monthlong series about female artists navigating their big city ambitions.
77 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami. In Persian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Trenchant and humorous, this new Iranian film follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities.
77 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami. In Persian and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Trenchant and humorous, this new Iranian film follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities.
128 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren. In Spanish, Basque, and French with English subtitles. DCP.
An eight-year-old child struggles with the fact that people keep addressing her in confusing ways. During a summer in the Basque Country among the beehives, she explores her identity alongside the women of her family, who at the same time reflect on their own lives and desires.
128 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren. In Spanish, Basque, and French with English subtitles. DCP.
An eight-year-old child struggles with the fact that people keep addressing her in confusing ways. During a summer in the Basque Country among the beehives, she explores her identity alongside the women of her family, who at the same time reflect on their own lives and desires.
86 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Cauleen Smith. In English. DCP.
One of the key independent films of the 1990s, Cauleen Smith’s lively and elegant portrait of a confident Oakland art student continues a monthlong series about female artists navigating their big city ambitions.
73 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Theo Montoya. In Spanish with English subtitles. DCP.
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. ANHELL69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.
Marquee PMA Programs
Stay up to date with the tried and true programs that define the PMA.
YAM is an annual exhibition showcasing the incredible talent in Maine’s art education programs.
The Judy Glickman Lecture provides in-depth insight into the people, perspectives, and culture of photography.
The Friends of the Collection creates an opportunity for you to directly support the addition of specific artworks to the PMA’s collection, and this year’s acquisition focus is The Sights and Sounds of Night by Vincent Smith.
Featuring floral work by designers, artists, farmers, and florists from across southern Maine, the museum comes alive with fragrant blooms, extravagant displays, and incredible floral installations of all types—each inspired by an artwork from the museum’s collection.
As one of the PMA’s marquee programs, The Barnet Scholars Lecture is designed to have an established scholar lead conversations with museum colleagues on topics related to 20th-century American art.
The Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund honors artists whose commitment to social justice is manifested in their work.
One of the biggest parties of the year and the perfect place to meet like-minded leaders, coming together to champion our region’s unique culture.
The PMA's flagship annual event, welcoming visionary cultural leaders, scholars, and thinkers to Maine.