Press Releases last updated: 06/18/2013
The First Major Exhibition of Tanzanian Art in the U.S. on View This Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (06/18/2013)
Portland Museum of Art Announces Winslow Homer Civil War Exhibition (05/31/2013)
Blue Star Museums Program at the Portland Museum of Art (05/24/2013)
The Portland Museum of Art Presents the First Museum Exhibition of Works by American-Iraqi Artist Ahmed Alsoudani (05/22/2013)
Portland Museum of Art Announces Summer Tours of the Winslow Homer Studio (05/16/2013)
Portland Museum of Art Announces Cannon Rock Sessions, A Program in Conjunction with the Winslow Homer Studio (04/26/2013)
Portland Museum of Art Welcomes Architect Henry H. Cobb as the Bernard Osher Lecturer (04/05/2013)
PMA Store Launches New Product Line with Maine Artist Anna Hepler (03/21/2013)
PMA Announces Artists Selected for 2013 Biennial (03/15/2013)
Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Studio Spring Tour Season Begins April 2 (03/11/2013)
Portland Museum of Art’s Curator of American Art Karen Sherry Promoted to Chief Curator (03/07/2013)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Youth Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/07/2013)
Voices of Design: 25 Years of Architalx (01/17/2013)
Portland Museum of Art Announces New Director of Development (01/16/2013)
Portland Museum of Art Completes Banner Year (01/08/2013)
Blueberry Rakers: Photographs by David Brooks Stess on View Next Spring at the Portland Museum of Art (12/10/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Breaks Records for the Month of November with Winslow Homer Exhibition (12/06/2012)
Nightlight: Artist Intervention and Copper Beech Tree Lighting at the Portland Museum of Art (12/04/2012)
First Museum Retrospective for Lois Dodd on View this Winter at the Portland Museum of Art (11/14/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Extends Hours for Blockbuster Winslow Homer Exhibition (10/24/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Installs Monumental Sculpture on Monday, October 15, 2012 (10/04/2012)
Contemporary Photography of the Winslow Homer Studio on View this Fall at the Portland Museum of Art (09/20/2012)
Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Studio Opens September 25, 2012 (09/10/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Presents Discussion of “Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness” (08/07/2012)
Portland Museum of Art’s Dana Baldwin Appointed Director of Learning and Interpretation (08/01/2012)
The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine on View this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (06/27/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Launches New Brand (06/22/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Announces 2012-13 Board Members (06/13/2012)
Maine Landscapes by Frederic Church on View this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (06/07/2012)
Culture Club—A New Educational Arts Initiative is Launched in Portland (06/06/2012)
The Draw of the Normandy Coast this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (05/24/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Curator of American Art (04/12/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art (03/05/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Hires Database Administrator and Information Strategist (02/29/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Jenny Holzer Painting from Contemporary Art Collector (02/16/2012)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Youth Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/01/2012)
College Night at the Portland Museum of Art (01/17/2012)
Social Media Photography Project on View at the Portland Museum of Art (01/06/2012)
Celebrity Portraits on View this Winter at the Portland Museum of Art (11/07/2011)
Artist Mildred Burrage’s Years in France at the Portland Museum of Art (11/01/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Announces Staff Promotion (10/19/2011)
Portland Museum of Art’s Chief Curator Accepts Director Position at Shelburne Museum in Vermont (09/06/2011)
Edgar Degas Works on Paper on View this Winter at the Portland Museum of Art (08/29/2011)
mod n modern: 2011 Portland Museum of Art Auction (08/18/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Awarded $100,000 Grant from the Sam L.. Cohen Foundation (07/22/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Wins Publication Design Awards (07/21/2011)
Photographs by Madeleine de Sinéty at the Portland Museum of Art (06/28/2011)
The Portland Museum of Art Partners with Aurora Provisions to Operate Museum’s Cafe (06/22/2011)
Rosalyne S. Bernstein and Peggy L. Osher Appointed Honorary Trustees of the Portland Museum of Art (06/22/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Funding to Provide Transportation Costs for School Tours (06/15/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Participates in Blue Star Museums Program (05/24/2011)
The Vogel Collection on View at the Portland Museum of Art (05/13/2011)
Refashioned at the Portland Museum of Art (05/02/2011)
Collection of Shaker Objects on View at the Portland Museum of Art (04/29/2011)
Portland Museum of Art to Host Symposium on Artist Studio Practices (04/27/2011)
Works by Will Barnet on View at the Portland Museum of Art (04/26/2011)
2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Prize Winners (04/07/2011)
Portland Museum of Art to Host Public Forum to Discuss the Mural Controversy and Public Art Ownership (04/06/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Responds to Mural Controversy (03/31/2011)
2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (03/14/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Exhibition Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation (03/09/2011)
European Drawings on View at the Portland Museum of Art (03/07/2011)
College Night at the Portland Museum of Art (01/13/2011)
The Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Studio is the Inspiration for J.Crew’s Spring 2011 Men’s Collection (02/10/2011)
Work by Early Maine Modernists On View this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (02/07/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Youth Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/01/2011)
Work by John Marin On View this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (02/01/2011)
Portland Museum of Art Offers Innovative New Membership Initiative (01/31/2011)
Erin Damon Promoted to Assistant Registrar at the Portland Museum of Art (01/19/2011)
Portland Museum of Art’s Stacy Rodenberger Wins Eastern Art Education Award (01/10/2011)
Portland Museum of Art’s Dana Baldwin Receives National Honor (01/10/2011)
Artist Jenny Holzer Created a Projection for the Portland Museum of Art (12/30/2010)
United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to Speak in Portland in March (12/29/2010)
Works Acquired by the Friends of the Collection on View at the Portland Museum of Art (12/27/2010)
Works by Rackstraw Downes on View this Winter at the Portland Museum of Art (12/02/2010)
Matthew Barney’s Epic Film “The Cremaster Cycle” Will Be Shown at the Portland Museum of Art (10/29/2010)
Portland Museum of Art Presents a Lecture and Art Projection by Internationally Known Artist Jenny Holzer (10/28/2010)
Photographs by Edward Weston on View at the Portland Museum of Art (10/22/2010)
Portland Museum of Art Announces Artists Chosen for the 2011 Biennial (10/04/2010)
Contemporary Trompe L’oeil at the Portland Museum of Art (10/01/2010)
Portland Museum of Art’s $3 million Gift from Emily Eaton Moore is Allocated (09/22/2010)
Trompe L’oeil Master John Haberle on View at the Portland Museum of Art (09/20/2010)
Maine Museums and Historical Organizations Rally to Save Important 19th-Century Banners (08/30/2010)
Artist Andrea Zittel Launches New Project at the Portland Museum of Art During SPACE Gallery’s Block Party (08/17/2010)
Work by Maine Artist Anna Hepler on View at the Portland Museum of Art (07/15/2010)
Photographs by Group f/64 on View this Fall at the Portland Museum of Art (07/12/2010)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Major Gift (06/09/2010)
Portland Museum of Art Participates in Blue Star Museums Program (06/07/2010)
Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Illustrations to Debut Online (05/20/2010)
2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Call for Entries Now Online (04/21/2010)
Rarely Seen Works by Winslow Homer on view this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (03/08/2010)
Works on Paper by American Moderns on View at the Portland Museum of Art (02/24/2010)
Recent Work by Frederick Lynch on View at the Portland Museum of Art (02/10/2010)
Prints by German Expressionist Max Beckmann on View at the Portland Museum of Art (01/15/2010)
New Contemporary Art on View at the Portland Museum of Art (01/11/2010)
Portland Museum of Art Breaks Attendance Record (01/07/2010)
New Acquisitions 2009 at the Portland Museum of Art (01/04/2010)
Legendary Cookbook Editor Judith Jone to Speak in Portland, Maine in March 2010 (11/30/2009)
Collage Works on View at the Portland Museum of Art (11/17/2009)
World AIDS Day at the Portland Museum of Art (11/23/2009)
2009 Portland Museum of Art Auction Exceeds Goal (11/12/2009)
Still Life Works from the Norton Museum of Art on View at the Portland Museum of Art (11/04/2009)
Nationally Renowned Artist, Collector, and Art Historian David C. Driskell to Speak in Portland (10/20/2009)
Paintings by Jay Connaway on view at the Portland Museum of Art (09/22/2009)
Paintings, Collages, and Watercolors by Charles DuBack at the Portland Museum of Art (07/10/2009)
Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron on View at the Portland Museum of Art (07/06/2009)
Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England at the Portland Museum of Art (06/24/2009)
Prints by Artist David C. Driskell on View this Fall at the Portland Museum of Art (06/05/2009)
Portland Museum of Art Announces New 2009-2010 Board Members (06/01/2009)
2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Prize Winners (04/16/2009)
Portland Museum of Art Breaks February Attendance Record (03/03/2009)
Photographs by Joyce Tenneson on View This Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (02/18/2009)
Art of Maine’s Cranberry Isles at the Portland Museum of Art (01/27/2009)
2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (01/27/2009)
Portland Museum of Art Announces New Director (01/15/2009)
Former Rolling Stone Editor and Acclaimed Rock & Roll Expert Greil Marcus to Speak in Portland (01/06/2009)
The Portland Museum of Art Celebrates the International Polar Year with Images of Arctic Exploration (12/15/2008)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New European Curator (12/08/2008)
The Movies on Exchange Street to Move to the Portland Museum of Art (11/21/2008)
Maine Artist Dahlov Ipcar to Sign Books at the Portland Museum of Art (11/14/2008)
Portland Museum of Art launches blog (10/16/2008)
Portland Museum of Art announces artists chosen for the 2009 Biennial (10/14/2008)
Rarely Seen Rock and Roll Photographs on View This Winter at the Portland Museum of Art (10/07/2008)
Artist and Art Educator Tim Rollins to Speak at the Portland Museum of Art (09/18/2008)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Charles Shipman Payson Building (09/03/2008)
Paintings by Maine artist Lynne Drexler on view at the Portland Museum of Art (09/03/2008)
New Acquisitions 2008 at the Portland Museum of Art (09/03/2008)
Photographs by André Kertész on view at the Portland Museum of Art (08/06/2008)
Images of Animals Featured in Exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art (07/18/2008)
Impressionist Landscapes on view at the Portland Museum of Art (07/10/2008)
Portland Museum of Art Breaks Ground on Landscape and Parking Project (06/23/2008)
PMA Director Daniel E. O’Leary Retires; Accepts New Role as Director of the Winslow Homer Studio Project (05/06/2008)
Contemporary Prints at Portland Museum of Art (04/15/2008)
PMA Hires Landscape Architecture Firm of Mohr & Seredin (03/31/2008)
Final Days to See the Popular John Bisbee Exhibition at the PMA (03/11/2008)
Urban Seen: Images of City Life at the Portland Museum of Art (03/07/2008)
Photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe On View at the Portland Museum of Art This Summer (02/29/2008)
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows on view at the Portland Museum of Art (02/05/2008)
Contemporary Maine Artists On View at the Portland Museum of Art (02/05/2008)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Youth Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/05/2008)
Staff Promotions at the Portland Museum of Art (02/05/2008)
Historic Clapp House to Transfer from Maine College of Art to Portland Museum of Art (01/25/2008)
The Sculpture of Maine Artist John Bisbee at the Portland Museum of Art (01/07/2008)
A Landmark Exhibition of Work by Mexico’s First Woman Photographer (01/05/2008)
Portland Museum of Art Auction Raises Record Funds (11/20/2007)
New Acquisitions 2007 at the Portland Museum of Art (10/04/2007)
Angela Adams Speaks About Design at The Portland Museum of Art (09/05/2007)
The Scott M. Black Collection Returns to the Portland Museum of Art (09/05/2007)
Portland Museum of Art Awarded Major Grant (08/20/2007)
Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of European Art Opens at the Portland Museum of Art (08/20/2007)
Explore the medium of Graphite at the Portland Museum of Art (08/13/2007)
Portland Museum of Art Purchases YWCA Property (07/10/2007)
Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful (06/21/2007)
See a Little Hopper This Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (06/14/2007)
Both Sides of the Camera: Photographs from the Collection of Judith Ellis Glickman (06/07/2007)
Getting Personal: Maine Architects Design Furniture (05/09/2007)
Stacy Rodenberger Named 2007 Maine Art Education Advocate (05/03/2007)
Portland Museum of Art’s Education Initiative Receives Award (05/03/2007)
2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (03/20/2007)
Youth Art Month Exhibition (02/23/2007)
Revolutionary Prints by Kathe Kollwitz at the Portland Museum of Art (02/02/2007)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Yourh Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/02/2007)
Works by Early American Deaf Artist John Brewster at the Portland Museum of Art (01/04/2007)
Fun for Families at the Portland Museum of Art (12/19/2006)
Landscapes by 19th-Century Portland Painter Harrison Bird Brown at the Portland Museum of Art (12/08/2006)
New Additions to the Collection at the Portland Museum of Art (11/13/2006)
Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos at the Portland Museum of Art (11/03/2006)
Masterpieces From the Currier Museum of Art on view at the Portland Museum of Art (10/23/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Announces Artists Chosen for the 2007 Biennial (10/17/2006)
Exploration of Childhood in 19th-Century America at the Portland Museum of Art (10/13/2006)
Photographer and Children’s Advocate Wendy Ewald to Speak in Portland (10/13/2006)
Photographs of Maine Life on View at the Portland Museum of Art (09/08/2006)
Photojournalist James Nachtwey To Speak in Portland (08/03/2006)
A Century of Maine Prints at the Portland Museum of Art (07/31/2006)
Sale of William E. Thon Paintings and Drawings (06/22/2006)
Curator Carrie Haslett Takes Position as Program Officer at the Terra Foundation for American Art (06/16/2006)
Paris and the Countryside: Modern Life in Late-19th-Century France on view at the Portland Museum of Art (06/13/2006)
MAINE’S OWN MONA LISA MYSTERY (05/01/2006)
Frederic Edwin Church Landscapes on View at the Portland Museum of Art (04/26/2006)
Landscapes by Pioneering Maine Photographer William B. Post at the Portland Museum of Art (04/10/2006)
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART HIRES NEW CHIEF CURATOR (03/23/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Director of Foundation and Corporate Support (03/23/2006)
A Century of Maine Prints at the Portland Museum of Art (03/15/2006)
Fifty Years of Magnum Photography on View at the Portland Museum of Art (03/13/2006)
Works by Maine Indian Students on view at the Portland Museum of Art (03/13/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Youth Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/27/2006)
Maine Architectural Drawings From 1925-1980 at the Portland Museum of Art (02/06/2006)
Architecture-Inspired Work by Artist George Lloyd at the Portland Museum of Art (02/06/2006)
Sam L. Cohen Grant Awarded to Portland Museum of Art (01/25/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Launches New Arts Curriculum for Grades K-2 (01/05/2006)
Art Museums and Galleries Celebrate 200 Years of Printmaking with Maine’s Largest Collaborative Arts Project (01/04/2006)
Surrealist Works from the Julien Levy Collection at the Portland Museum of Art (12/21/2005)
De Kooning Sculpture on View at the Portland Museum of Art (12/14/2005)
The Portland Museum of Art Highlights New Acquisitions From 2005 (11/15/2005)
The Work of World-Renowned Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude on View at the Portland Museum of Art (11/03/2005)
Rockwell Kent Documentary Film to be Screened at the Portland Museum of Art (09/21/2005)
Murray Hantman Works on View at the Portland Museum of Art (09/21/2005)
Portland Museum of Art Announces New Date for Christo and Jeanne-Claude Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2005 (08/22/2005)
Portland Museum of Art Launches New Website and Logo (08/22/2005)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Coordinator of Community Programs (08/18/2005)
Artist Neil Welliver Memoralized with Portland Museum of Art Exhibition (08/15/2005)
Portland Museum of Art’s Director of Education Named Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute (07/26/2005)
Jessica Skwire Routhier Promoted to Associate Curator at the Portland Museum of Art (07/22/2005)
Expressionist Maine Landscapes by John Walker at the Portland Museum of Art (07/02/2005)
Major Rockwell Kent Exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine (06/03/2005)
2005 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (04/07/2005)
Chief Curator Jessica Nicoll Takes Position as Director and Chief Curator of the Smith College Museum of Art (03/29/2005)
Portland Museum of Art’s Director of Education Named “2005 Art Advocate of the Year” (03/01/2005)
Maine Architectural Drawings from 1875-1925 Featured at the Portland Museum of Art (02/18/2005)
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White Featured at Portland Museum of Art (01/19/2005)
Works by 18th-Century Italian Printmaker Piranesi on View at the Portland Museum of Art (01/15/2005)
Portland Museum of Art to Display New Acquisitions (12/11/2004)
Rarely Seen Colonial and Federal Americana on View at the Portland Museum of Art (11/16/2004)
Portland Museum of Art Launches Capital Campaign to Acquire and Preserve the Winslow Homer Studio (09/15/2004)
Maine PBS Special Featuring the Portland Museum of Art to Air on August 25, 2004 (08/01/2004)
American Masters and Their European Muses at the Portland Museum of Art (06/24/2004)
Portland Museum of Art Presents Photographs by Diane Arbus (06/02/2004)
Early American Quilts from the Smithsonian on View at the Portland Museum of Art (04/02/2004)
Early Maine Architectural Drawings on View at the Portland Museum of Art (02/02/2004)
Major Retrospective of the Work of Photographer Eliot Porter at the Portland Museum of Art (01/22/2004)
Portland Museum of Art Launches Middle School Arts Curriculum (01/15/2004)
The Estate of Artist William Thon and the Portland Museum of Art Donate Art Work to Maine Schools (11/10/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Commemorates Portland Stage Company’s 30th Anniversary (11/08/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Payson Building with Special Exhibition (11/01/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Awarded Prestigious IMLS Grant (10/17/2003)
The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME, Receives National Preservation Honor Award (10/02/2003)
The Paintings of Maine Artist Thomas Crotty on View at the Portland Museum of Art (09/25/2003)
Works by Portland Painter Charles Frederick Kimball on View at the Portland Museum of Art (08/31/2003)
A Major Retrospective of Works by Renowned American Painter Fairfield Porter is on View at the Portland Museum of Art (06/19/2003)
Photographs by Legendary Photographer Edward Weston on View at the Portland Museum of Art (06/08/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Showcases Map Exhibition in Conjunction with International Map Symposium in Portland (05/17/2003)
Portland Museum of Art’s Educational Initiative Receives National Award (04/29/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates 20th Anniversary of I. M. Pei Building (04/15/2003)
2003 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (04/10/2003)
Portland Museum of Art’s McLellan House Featured on Bob Vila’s Home Again and on Made in Maine (02/02/2003)
Works by Internationally-Renowned Photographer Sebastiao Salgado at Six Maine Venues (01/15/2003)
Portland Museum of Art’s Director of Education Receives National Award (01/02/2003)
Rediscovering Samuel Peter Rolt Tricott at the Portland Museum of Art (12/14/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Launches New Learning Initiative for Maine Schools (12/13/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Presents Charles Codman Retrospective (11/17/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Opens Restored Historic Buildings (11/01/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Unveils New Logo and Tag Line (10/01/2002)
Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts 1952-1963 at the Portland Museum of Art (09/21/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Curator (07/15/2002)
Paul Caponigro: New England Days on View at the Portland Museum of Art (06/02/2002)
Bernard Langlais: Independent Spirit at the Portland Museum of Art (04/01/2002)
Archive: Alan Magee Monotypes on View at the Portland Museum of Art (03/02/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Launches Innovative Educational Initiative to Assist Maine’s Public Schools (02/13/2002)
The Poetry Within: The Life and Work of William Thon on view at the Portland Museum of Art (02/02/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Largest Gift Given by an Artist (02/26/2001)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Large Gift from the Hearst Foundation (03/07/2000)
Neo-Impressionism Exhibition to Open this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (02/06/2000)