Brian Chin, Co-founding Partner and Creative Director at p3, spearheaded the use of innovative technology in our galleries and shared the experience with us.
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For several years, the PMA has commemorated Day Without Art, an international day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis, by shrouding works of art and writing personal reflections that honor the movement and the countless artists whose lives were lost to the crisis. Though we can’t gather in person this year to commemorate Day Without Art, we highlight past PMA staff reflections as a moment of pause, reflection, and solidarity.
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Our friends at New England Distilling have created a craft cocktail to toast to Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington and celebrate Thanksgiving, no matter what the holiday looks like for you this year.
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The Portland Museum of Art has received a grant for $10,000 from the Avangrid Foundation to support Art for All, the PMA’s guiding principle and commitment to Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI).The grant marks the second consecutive year that the Avangrid Foundation has provided support to the PMA.
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The tools of the acclaimed sculptor Gaston Lachaise were beautifully installed at the Portland Museum of Art through a generous loan from the Lachaise Foundation as part of the multiyear Your Museum, Reimagined accessibility and collection reinstallation project, which opened to the public in 2017.
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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 the spring of 2018, art conservator Nina Roth-Wells came to the PMA to review a painting that had just come into the collection. Observing the painting under UV light revealed unusually large patches of darkness, indicating that something had been added on top of the varnish.
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In the spring and summer of 2020, the PMA presented Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, an exhibition that reimagines a familiar form of religious furniture—the tabernacle—as a symbolic location for cultural values such as justice, equality, and knowledge. Painter Carrie Moyer and sculptor Sheila Pepe have achieved international acclaim through abstract works that are rich with color and materiality and informed by feminist politics and queer activism.
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Real Estate brokers, agencies, and mortgage brokers are invited to join the PMA’s new program. Partnership with the PMA demonstrates your commitment to Maine’s creative economy and the region’s arts and culture at a time when institutional support is more crucial than ever.
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The $15,000 grant from the Maine Arts Commission is unrestricted, which means that the museum may allocate it where it will make the most impact. Unrestricted grants and gifts are great ways to ensure that the PMA has the resources it needs to sustainably grow for years to come, and we’re grateful to the Maine Arts Commission for realizing the impact of their support.
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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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Did Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington ever meet in person? What’s the connection between the two artists’ work? Our upcoming exhibition, Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, brings together the best-known artworks of two great American artists and explores the mythologies both artists perpetuated in their work. Read this article to learn more about why Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington are an unlikely pair, even if they never met in person.
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