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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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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.
Hear the artist in conversation with Ramey Mize, Associate Curator of American Art.
Explore the woven worlds of beauty, innovation, and tradition through Jeremy Frey's art. Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.
Join Passamaquoddy Artist Jeremy Frey for a live demonstration and insight into his basket weaving process.
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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.
80 minutes (followed by post-film discussion). Not Rated. Directed by Glenn Holsten. In English. DCP.
As the heir to an unparalleled three-generation dynasty in American art, Jamie Wyeth struggles to find his own voice during the colorful turmoil of pop culture and politics from the 1960s to the present. Director Glenn Holsten will be joined by Mark Bessire for a post-film discussion.
Contemporaries Council is invited to a reception at Winslow Homer Studio.
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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.
The artist has donated over 150 works from his foundation’s collection to the Portland Museum of Art, among other institutions in the state.
“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.”
“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.”
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.
"...at last, there is a book available for the masses that celebrates [Frey's] impressive work."
“The exhibition is a dazzling showcase of his ability to take unconventional materials…and create objects of delicate, rhythmic delight.”
The baskets of Jeremy Frey from the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine have caught the attention of the art world.
The museum has a collection of 19,000 objects and counting, and only a fraction are on display at any given time. We look at how these pieces get to the museum and where they go when they're not on display.
Portland Museum of Art’s ‘+ collection’ expands narrative about curation and exhibition process.
[Fragments of Epic Memory is] a celebration of kaleidoscopic talent and – with its companion display of 19th-century photography – extraordinary resilience.
The city received 2,000 responses from the public during an uncommonly collaborative selection process. Much has been made of the selected plan’s homage to the Wabanaki and of its use of “mass timber,” an environmentally friendly category of wood product that the museum wants to source here in Maine.
“This is a big shift,” said Shalini Le Gall, the museum’s chief curator. “I’m an art historian, but art history is not the only way to access art in a museum. We want to show people that art by its nature is not stable, and the scope of interpretation will always be changing.”
Tours begin at the Portland Museum of Art, where patrons can look at some of Homer’s paintings. Then a shuttle bus whisks visitors to Prout’s Neck to take in the studio and the yard that slopes down to the ocean. It is a step back in time to a place that feels surprisingly relatable.
When the French-born, Harlem-based artist Elizabeth Colomba starts an oil painting, she does so like the masters.
The show reveals the untold stories of stewards and students, the shadowed innovation, and the profound impact a small school in Rockport, Maine has had on photography.
A Portland Museum of Art exhibit takes a snapshot of a half-century of boundary-blurring photo workshops in Rockport.
The Portland Museum of Art has expanded a program that showcases its collection to people enjoying the outdoors.
Taken together, “Drawn to the Light” and “People Watching” provide an insightful selection of fine art photographs and make the point that Maine holds a significant place in contemporary photography.
The PMA has placed more than two dozen replicas of its collection outdoors. Most of the original pieces can be seen inside the walls of the museum, and this project is a way for Mainers and tourists to enjoy some of the art the museum has to offer as they walk, run, jog, and enjoy the great outdoors.
By bringing out the big guns, the show seeks to attract a wide audience, of course, but also show the outsized, cross-pollinating impact the little Maine school has had on the photographic world over the years.
The show includes almost 100 photographs from nearly 80 photographers, as well as a selection of Workshops-related publications.
It’s a show where labels really matter because they give new, contemporary context with which to consider the works on view. They really push us to think in new ways about who gets to write the history of art in America, who was left out of it and how that is – thankfully – changing.
With a nod toward the Portland Museum of Art’s lasting influence on producer [Karlina] Lyons, the film is coming to Portland as part of a 10-city U.S. tour.
One of Homer’s greatest works (if not one of the finest American landscape paintings of the 19th century), “Weatherbeaten” powerfully captures the fearsome beauty of coastal Maine.
The time is now to incentivize mass timber as a go-to building material to maximize long-lasting and positive outcomes for our economies and environment.
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102 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pablo Berger. This film is dialogue-free. DCP.
DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards, this dialogue-free animated film is appropriate for ages 8 and up.
102 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pablo Berger. This film is dialogue-free. DCP.
DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards, this dialogue-free animated film is appropriate for ages 8 and up.
102 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pablo Berger. This film is dialogue-free. DCP.
DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards, this dialogue-free animated film is appropriate for ages 8 and up.
86 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Noah Baumbach. In English. DCP.
A barbed and effusive Millennial touchstone, the first collaboration between Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach concludes a monthlong series about female artists navigating their big city ambitions.
102 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pablo Berger. This film is dialogue-free. DCP.
DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards, this dialogue-free animated film is appropriate for ages 8 and up.
102 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pablo Berger. This film is dialogue-free. DCP.
DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards, this dialogue-free animated film is appropriate for ages 8 and up.
147 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. In Polish, Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles. DCP.
This urgent look at Europe’s migrant crisis follows the families, activists, and border guards caught in a rapidly escalating geopolitical standoff. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
147 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. In Polish, Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles. DCP.
This urgent look at Europe’s migrant crisis follows the families, activists, and border guards caught in a rapidly escalating geopolitical standoff. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
147 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. In Polish, Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles. DCP.
This urgent look at Europe’s migrant crisis follows the families, activists, and border guards caught in a rapidly escalating geopolitical standoff. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
147 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. In Polish, Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles. DCP.
This urgent look at Europe’s migrant crisis follows the families, activists, and border guards caught in a rapidly escalating geopolitical standoff. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
147 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. In Polish, Arabic, English, and French with English subtitles. DCP.
This urgent look at Europe’s migrant crisis follows the families, activists, and border guards caught in a rapidly escalating geopolitical standoff. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
104 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Catherine Breillat. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
Successful lawyer Anne leads a happy life with her husband Pierre and their two daughters. But when she begins an affair with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, her career and family life are in jeopardy.
104 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Catherine Breillat. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
Successful lawyer Anne leads a happy life with her husband Pierre and their two daughters. But when she begins an affair with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, her career and family life are in jeopardy.
104 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Catherine Breillat. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
Successful lawyer Anne leads a happy life with her husband Pierre and their two daughters. But when she begins an affair with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, her career and family life are in jeopardy.
104 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Catherine Breillat. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
Successful lawyer Anne leads a happy life with her husband Pierre and their two daughters. But when she begins an affair with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, her career and family life are in jeopardy.
104 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Catherine Breillat. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
Successful lawyer Anne leads a happy life with her husband Pierre and their two daughters. But when she begins an affair with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, her career and family life are in jeopardy.
80 minutes (followed by post-film discussion). Not Rated. Directed by Glenn Holsten. In English. DCP.
As the heir to an unparalleled three-generation dynasty in American art, Jamie Wyeth struggles to find his own voice during the colorful turmoil of pop culture and politics from the 1960s to the present. Director Glenn Holsten will be joined by Mark Bessire for a post-film discussion.
49 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Harald Prins and Karen Carter. In English.
Showing as a companion to our current exhibit, Jeremy Frey: Woven, Our Lives In Our Hands examines the traditional Native American craft of split ash basketmaking as a means of economic and cultural survival for Aroostook Micmac Indians of northern Maine.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
207 minutes (includes 5-minute intermission). Not Rated. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. In Japanese with English subtitles. DCP.
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. Screening for the first time in a 4K DCP restoration.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
108 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Angela Schanelec. In Greek and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Stunningly filmed in a style that recalls Robert Bresson, Angela Schanelec’s film loosely adapts the story of Oedipus into a wholly unconventional modern epic.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
108 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Angela Schanelec. In Greek and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Stunningly filmed in a style that recalls Robert Bresson, Angela Schanelec’s film loosely adapts the story of Oedipus into a wholly unconventional modern epic.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
113 minutes. Rated PG-13. Directed by Annie Baker. In English. DCP.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut feature is a sublime reinvention of the coming-of-age film, about a young girl enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother.
108 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Angela Schanelec. In Greek and English with English subtitles. DCP.
Stunningly filmed in a style that recalls Robert Bresson, Angela Schanelec’s film loosely adapts the story of Oedipus into a wholly unconventional modern epic.
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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