Stories of Maine Exhibition Stewardship Report
Leading up to Maine’s 200th anniversary, the PMA and the Maine Humanities Council collaborated with partners and advisors throughout the state to consider the best ways to mark the occasion. Together, we selected stories about Maine’s past and present and invited Mainers from the state’s diverse regions and backgrounds to showcase them in the exhibition Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History. (On view June 2020 - May 16, 2021)
34,325 museum visitors while exhibition was on view
5,085 unique page views
Overall Website visitors 191,810
348,498 unique page views
Related Programs and Events
7/22/2020: Content featured during the digital 2020 Summer Party
8/29/2020: Fly Tying with Selene of Maine, 45 attendees
12/9/2020: Evening for Educators, 36 attendees
4/6/2021: The Maine Course with Mike Wiley, 51 attendees
5/10/2021: The Maine Course with Vien Dobui, 29 attendees
Total Program attendance: 524+
Program and Digital Content Partners
Hayden Anderson, Mark Bessire, and Diana Greenwold
Selene of Maine
Brigid Neptune and Fiona Hopper, Portland Schools
Mike Wiley, Big Tree Hospitality
Vien Dobui, CONG TU BOT
In the press
Social Media Interactions
Facebook:
8 posts
Total Reach: 8,229
Total Engagement: 198
Instagram:
8 posts
Total Likes: 1,600
Gallery Installation
Contributors
18 community voices responding on label text
Walter Boomsma, Director, Maine State Grange
Ahmed Abdirahman, Director, Maine Muslim Community Center, Portland
Brother Arnold Hadd, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester
Sheila Jans, CultureWorth, Madawaska and Don Cyr, Musée culturel du Mont-Carmel, Lille sur-St-Jean
Sarah Workneh, Co-director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Amanda Rector, Maine State Economist, Augusta
Imti Hassan, former Homer High School Fellow, student at Bates College, Lewiston
Myron Beasley, Associate Professor of American Studies, Bates College, Lewiston
Neill De Paoli, Archeologist and Site Manager, Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site
Sarah Sockbeson, Artist, Veazie
James Francis, Penobscot Tribal Historian, Indian Island
Pam Cummings, Abyssinian Restoration Project, Portland
Ernie DeRaps, Former lighthouse keeper, Monhegan
Seth Wescott in lieu of Robert Lu, Winterstick Snowboards, Sugarloaf
Janet Mills, Governor
Muhidin Libah, Director, Somali Bantu Community Association, Lewiston
Jessica Leahy, Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, UMaine, Orono
Kazeem Lawal, Owner, Portland Trading Co., Portland
Exhibition Support
Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
This exhibition is supported by Friends of the Collection.
Corporate Support
This exhibition is part of Art for All
Art for All supports the PMA's dedication to being an open, accessible, inclusive, and welcoming museum for all, through exhibitions and programs that reflect our community and create experiences with art that strengthen our bonds and bring us together.
Individual Support:
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Justin and Rachael Alfond
Judy and John Adelman
Louise Bessire
Sheri and Joe Boulos
Shannon C. Gordon
Cyrus Hagge
Patricia Hille Dodd Hagge
Alison and Horace Hildreth
Douglas and Sharyn Howell
John and Hilary Isacke
Karen L. McDonald
Marian Hoyt Morgan and Christopher Hawley Corbett
Anne and Vince Oliviero
Richard and Alice Spencer
Stewart and Elizabeth Strawbridge
Amy Woodhouse and Tobey Scott
Foundation Support
Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, Inc.
Corporate Sponsors
TD Bank, through the TD Charitable Foundation
