From marquee programs such as the Nelson Social Justice Lecture to curator-led tours of Jeremy Frey: Woven to the first feature-length documentary of Jaime Wyeth—July is the season to visit your museum.
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While at the museum, you can see paintings by Winslow Homer and N.C. Wyeth, but don’t miss the work of artists who have broadened and deepened the legacy of Maine art in recent decades, including paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges and Daniel Minter, and sculpture by Lauren Fensterstock.
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The artist has donated over 150 works from his foundation’s collection to the Portland Museum of Art, among other institutions in the state.
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“Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey has become one of the most awarded and collected Indigenous basket weavers in the country for his contemporary mastery of the Wabanaki weaving tradition.”
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Summer is in full swing this month as we open Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter revel in Jeremy Frey: Woven, and Celebrate Pride and Juneteenth with free community days.
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In conjunction with our new exhibition, Peggy Bacon: Biting, Never Bitter, PMA Films will be screening films throughout June that explore classic filmic representations of the young female artist scheming and striving to make it in the big city.
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“Wabanaki people originally wove baskets for functional purposes, but, over time, basketmaking has evolved into more of an art form. Today, some have taken the art of basketmaking to new levels--such as the renowned Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey.”
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Frey, a celebrated seventh-generation Indigenous basketmaker, uses the traditional designs of the Wabanaki tribal confederation of New England and the Canadian Maritimes as takeoff points for bold departures.
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Frey’s baskets, frankly, astonish.
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"...at last, there is a book available for the masses that celebrates [Frey's] impressive work."
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Adams has developed a vibrant, graphic pattern-based visual language filled with references to the natural world that possess an heirloom quality. Her work takes form by way of quilting, painting, design and large-scale murals.
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Elana Adler is a multidisciplinary artist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and currently based in Portland, ME. She received a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and a MFA in Fibers & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017.
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Maya Tihtiyas Attean is a Wabanaki artist, living and working in Portland, Maine. She grew up on Alnabe Menahan, the Penobscot Nation Reservation. Her work has evolved to use photography to create art reflecting her ancestry, resiliency, and culture.
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Oscar Chacón is a Texas-based artist whose creative practices and processes focus on producing mixed media, paper-based drawings. His art draws inspiration from photography, performance, film, video, and nature.
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James Parker Foley’s paintings are set within the world of his mind: a spare, utopian iteration of the Maine coast. Recent works are predominantly blue and set at night, creating a lucid, expansive space.
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Meg Hahn is an artist and arts organizer based in Portland, ME. Her practice is rooted in the process of painting and observing formal qualities found from observation.
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Dylan Hausthor is an artist based on an island off the coast of Maine. They received their BFA from Maine College of Art and MFA from Yale School of Art. They work teaching ghost hunting, ritual, photography, and mushroom foraging. To help write this biography, Dylan contacted a forensic medium, who suggested that they “seemed like someone passionate in the things they believed in, hides secret messages in the things they have to say, and should avoid driving Volvos”.
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