In partnership with the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, the PMA commissioned photographer Egide Foxworth to document community members with photographs brought from the African continent to Maine.
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“My way back into painting was to think about queer politics through figuration. At the time, it was the only way I could imagine communicating ideas that felt urgent.” -Carrie Moyer
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Winslow 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.
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Hear 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.
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In 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,
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Community member and art expert Joan Carpenter Troccoli provides her perspective on Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington.
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In 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.
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In this letter, Mark Bessire reflects on the upcoming exhibition Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington and the many community voices and advisory groups that helped support it.
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In 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!
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There is no way to encompass all the stories of what is now known as Maine. Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History represents one effort to gather stories that have shaped this state through the eyes of its peoples. Have a Maine experience, object, or anecdote to share? We want to know. Visit the digital iteration of our Workshop installation and record it at portlandmuseum.org/recorder
"Our responsibility to the artists and community didn’t pause at all. In fact, our efforts multiplied. I suddenly found myself reliving the exhibition planning process. Carrie and Sheila were on speed dial and ready to participate at every turn...I now liken everyone’s efforts to raising a virtual barn: not one part possible without the next, each new strategy supporting and hoisting the next into position." -- Curator of Contemporary Art, Jaime DeSimone, shares her thoughts on Tabernacles for Trying Times as the exhibition comes to a close.
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“All museums are putting a spotlight on their collecting practices and making sure they are being equitable across the board,” DeSimone said. “This is a concentrated effort to bring works of art by women into the collection.”
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“Everyone was masked and happy; one group, a mother and three grade-schooler girls, were positively giddy. I later crossed paths with them inside, where they excitedly chattered about a Thomas Cole painting, and then a small Fitz Hugh Lane. “Woooowww — that’s so cool!” one of the girls crowed, looking at the luminous haze Lane cast above one of his harbor scenes. Inside of me, something bloomed. God, I missed this.”
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Check 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.
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Curators from the three museums will introduce the North Atlantic Triennial project Friday afternoon in Portland.
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