In The Biz: PMA Recommends
Live locally? These businesses support the museum's mission and we recommend their services to our visitors and patrons.
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How About A Group Tour?
Family reunion, company retreat, or a wedding party? Whatever your reason, we have customizable group tours for your group of 10 or more.
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Leave A Legacy: The Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat Society
By including the PMA in your long-term plans, you can achieve the goals that are important to you—to benefit yourself and your family, as well as the institution that you value and believe in.
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Boston Globe: In Maine, a persistent vision amid the pines
Haystack’s contribution to art pedagogy isn’t a signature aesthetic or philosophy, but an openness to accommodate and include, change and grow.
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The Portland Press Herald: Exhibit explores how a vision blossomed into Haystack center of craft
This exhibition is a blockbuster because it sets the Haystack story in the context of both mid-century American art and mid-century American life, and how the two intersected around a not-quite Utopian lifestyle vision that encouraged invention, creativity and a free exchange of ideas.
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The ARTery: Beyond Boston, 6 Summer Exhibits Around New England
This exhibits is one of the first major museum shows focusing solely on this school, recharacterizing the narrative of midcentury art and craft in America.
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Individual Membership
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Plus-One Membership
Share an Individual membership with a friend or partner—it’s everything you love about PMA membership, experienced in good company.
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Family Membership
The membership level with room for growth—bring children and a guest every time you visit and enjoy the full family experience, all year long.
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Ambassador Membership
Take the next step in supporting the arts with a more personal role in showing others all that the museum offers.
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Steward Membership
Help shape your museum and bring free admission with you to more than 70 museums across North America.
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Sustaining Membership
Become a leading voice within the PMA, influence its future, and raise its profile.
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Contemporaries
No other group embodies both the future leadership of the PMA and cultural energy of Portland better than the Contemporaries
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Contemporaries Council
Together with the PMA, the Contemporaries Council actively explores ways to enhance the local creative economy, with meetups beyond the PMA and out in the community, lifting the tide for all.
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Director's Circle
Director’s Circle members’ vision and philanthropy advance arts and culture in our community, strengthening all areas of the museum, including its unique collection, outstanding special exhibitions, educational, and public programming.
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The 1882 Circle and President's Circle
The President’s Circle and 1882 Circle are the top levels of membership at the PMA and are regarded for their annual support of $10,000 or more to the operating budget.
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Forbes: A Celebration Of Haystack, Coastal Maine's Visionary Crafts School
It’s an exhibit that will be worthy of a road trip to Portland, the hipster capital of Maine, famed for its food scene, vitality and its artistic sensibility.
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Juxtapoz: In The Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969
With seminal works of art by leaders of the midcentury studio craft movement, the exhibition asserts Haystacks central role in national debates about the boundaries between art, craft, and design.
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Beautiful Blackbird Comes to life with the Theater Ensemble of Color
The Theater Ensemble of Color’s Artistic Director René Goddess Johnson and Nick Schroeder, Affiliate Producer, share insights into their organization and how they planned for the production of Ashley Bryan’s Beautiful Blackbird.
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