In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
Please join Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Portland Museum of Art for ARTWORD 2021, a reading and celebration of the long, intimate relationship between poetry and visual art on Tuesday, April 13 at 7 p.m. & Wednesday, April 21 at 7 p.m.
Read MoreLooking at art can help us slow down, reflect, focus on the present, and connect. Using artwork to ground our mindfulness practice cultivates skills such as close looking and empathy, while also helping us to be more self-aware. During this digital session from March, PMA staff led a guided meditation centered on artwork in the PMA’s collection.
Read MoreThe PMA is a proud member of the Maine Art Museum Trail and participant in this important series. Museums are at a moment of reckoning. Immense social, political, and financial pressure is testing the foundations of institutions, prompting examination of history, the need for change, and the process to acknowledge, repair, and heal.
Read MoreLooking at art can help us slow down, reflect, focus on the present, and connect. Using artwork to ground our mindfulness practice cultivates skills such as close looking and empathy, while also helping us to be more self-aware. During this digital session from February, PMA staff led a guided meditation centered on artwork in the PMA’s collection.
Read MoreTake a break in your day to slow down and enjoy the process of looking at art together. Join Christian Adame, Peggy L. Osher Director of Learning and Community Collaboration, for a virtual, guided, 30-minute session that took place in February.
Read MoreTake a break in your day to slow down and enjoy the process of looking at art together. Join Christian Adame, Peggy L. Osher Director of Learning and Community Collaboration, for a virtual, guided, 30-minute session that took place in January.
Read MoreThis program designed specifically for educators features PMA staff in conversation with Fiona Hopper and Bridgid Neptune. Tune in to explore the exhibition Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History, learn about PMA Resources, and discuss how to utilize multiple perspectives in the classroom.
Read MoreWinslow Homer and Frederic Remington both depicted Indigenous people in their work in varying capacities. Two Maine experts discuss the layers of meaning and implications behind those depictions.
Read MoreHear from all three curators at the PMA for a conversation about the new exhibition Freedom, A Fable. Together, they touch upon the mission and themes behind the show, and examine how the featured historic and contemporary artworks from the PMA collection inspire complex dialogues around race, representation, and American history.
Read MoreIn this virtual conversation for the PMA, Barbara Haskell, long-time curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, shares her latest exhibition: Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945,
Read MoreIn this virtual program from October, Monson Arts' senior advisor Stuart Kestenbaum and Portland-based artists Tessa O'Brien and Celeste Roberge (both former resident artists in the program) discuss the vision for and the impact of this new arts center.
Read MoreIn this virtual program from August, fly tyer and designer Selene of Maine shares a few artifacts related to historic fly tyer Carrie Stevens and demonstrates how to tie a Grey Ghost fly in her hands!
Read MoreIn this video, 2020 Barnet Scholar Judith Walsh discusses the innovative changes Winslow Homer made to his artistic practice during the summer of 1878.
Read MoreIn this video, Diana Greenwold, Curator of American Art, and Dana Byrd, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College, come together on Zoom to discuss Winslow Homer’s vexing 1875 painting, Uncle Ned at Home.
Read MoreIn this video, Alison Beyea, Executive Director of the ACLU of Maine and Zach Heiden, Chief Counsel, ACLU of Maine, and Brigitte Amiri from The Fight discuss the the organization's legacy of protecting individual rights and liberties and how issues in the film intersect with efforts in Maine.
Read MoreThe convergence of COVID-19 with the nationwide movement to end police brutality brings renewed urgency to the work of dismantling prisons and demanding racial justice. We partnered with the ACLU of Maine and Maine Inside Out in imagining a state that prioritizes community over incarceration.
Read MoreHow has the word “tabernacle” been used, interpreted, and reclaimed by different people? In this new video series created for Dream Action Factory, Cynthia Baker, Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College, explores the history of this poignant word.
Read MoreCheck out this conversation between Hayden Anderson, Executive Director of the Maine Humanities Council, and Mark Bessire, Judy and Leonard Lauder Director, and Diana Greenwold, Curator of American Art, about Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History and the collaborative process that defined it.
Read MoreThe Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund honors artists whose commitment to social justice is manifested in their work.
Read MorePMA programs offer a wide range of experiences about issues that matter. The museum’s public programs reach more than 54,000 visitors annually and are designed for visitors of all ages and backgrounds.
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