“…creates a place where people can congregate as a community and talk about how they want to live.”
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The PMA’s Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times and Mythmakers: The Art of Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer make artnet’s “can’t miss list” for 2020.
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This February school vacation week, the PMA is here to help you out with your winter doldrums with special open hours and family programming that includes artmaking activities for kids and adults.
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Each year Winter Bash transforms the Portland Museum of Art into a vibrant and lively venue, bringing together the region’s most dynamic entrepreneurs, community leaders, and creatives. Experience the symphony of colors, textures, and forms, while savoring delectable bites and crafted cocktails.
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Part of the Learning and Interpretation department’s mission is to create a platform for multiple perspectives. Art does not exist in a vacuum and reflects the time in which it was made. Likewise, all the content that we create reflects our current times.
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Curators from the three museums will introduce the North Atlantic Triennial project Friday afternoon in Portland.
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Was Wyeth a servant of his talent, when it should have been the other way around? That’s the sense I took away from “New Perspectives”: of a gifted technician trapped by his talent, and a dispiriting sense of what might have been.
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“To me, there’s the sense of an exposé — Kjartansson laying bare a suite of visual techniques designed to convince, to provoke, to arouse. It’s cold and calculating. It’s too perfect.”
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“It’s a great excuse to enjoy Portland without its summertime crowds, to eat exceptionally well in a place that Bon Appetit magazine named “The Restaurant City of the Year 2018” and to take in the work of this master. “
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“…the artist’s works remain enormously entertaining, and that’s reason enough to give them another look.”
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“The result is an exhibition of majestic proportions that offers a stunning and complicated portrait of the patriarch of America’s first family of Art.”
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Kjartansson received the prize for his presentation of The Boat, one of nine videos from the “Scenes from Western Culture”
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The PMA's flagship annual event, welcoming visionary cultural leaders, scholars, and thinkers to Maine.
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We transformed one of our most iconic landscape paintings, Winslow Homer’s Weatherbeaten, into a coloring book page, and asked visitors to test out the implications of color for themselves. Adults and children alike created almost 2,000 versions of this painting.
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Visitors to The Workshop took an everyday occurrence—a coffee spill—and transformed it into a cat, a map, an abstract drawing, an interstellar scene, or whatever else their imagination inspired.
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Inspired by Christopher Patch’s Migration—on view in the Modern Menagerie installation—visitors created a flock of flying bird sculptures.
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Over the course of two months, visitors illustrated hundreds of pages from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, almost completing the entire epic.
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Hundreds of visitors selected a small detail from one of the painting which intrigued them and copied it onto a paper tile.
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Visitors spun a wheel for a challenge to create sculpture inspired by a select idea using hand-crafted, magnetic wooden blocks.
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