Midday Mindfulness

Looking at art can help us slow down, focus on the present, and connect. Watch recordings of our Midday Mindfulness programs whenever you need a moment of reflection.

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Judy Glickman Lauder Makes Transformative Promised Gift Of More Than 600 Photographs To The Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) is proud to announce that Judy Glickman Lauder—photographer, collector, humanitarian, advocate, philanthropist, and community builder—has made a monumental gift of more than 600 works of art to the museum through a Promised Gift, immediately transforming and cementing the PMA as an international destination for photography.

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Portland Press Herald: Portland Museum of Art receives photography collection that ‘puts us at another level’

Glickman Lauder’s gift enables the museum to think broadly about the next chapter of PMA history, specifically about how we can create open experiences with art, grow and diversify our collection, and open new and dynamic community-centered spaces that welcome our myriad communities.

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Recent Acquisition: "The Finishing Line (Au But)" by Alfred Boucher

Discover more about our recent acquisition to the PMA collection, "The Finishing Line (Au But)" by Alfred Boucher.

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Waving Goodbye to #PMASightlines

As we say farewell to Clifford Ross: Sightlines, we share some of the #PMASightlines visitor selfies posted online during the run of the exhibition and how the PMA has taken steps to promote sustainability. Thank you to our partners at Evergreen Credit Union for supporting sustainability efforts at the PMA by donating $10 to our sustainability initiative for every tagged post.

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Markús Þór Andrésson, Reykjavík Art Museum

Triennial curator Markús Þór Andrésson at Reykjavík Art Museum shares a day in his life in Iceland. He also tells us about a few of his favorite Icelandic nature webcams to explore online—and you can too!

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Family Art Making: Driskell Collage + Mixed Media

In response to the collages featured in the David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History exhibition, artist Rachel Gloria Adams designed an all-ages art-making activity for home or anywhere you like to create.

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The Boston Globe: The natural world according to Clifford Ross

Thick froth at a wave’s lip dissembles into airborne droplets, each one bizarrely crisp; heavy, cascading walls of water appear as though carved with ridges, flash-frozen in place. They’re so real as to be unreal, which, I think is the point.

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Portland Press Herald: Art review: Photographer Clifford Ross focuses on the force of nature

We can’t help but wonder what happened the second after Ross snapped these images. Was he engulfed by the waves? Knocked down and pulled into the violent surf?. . . All this points to the extraordinarily visceral quality of these wave images.

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Member Appreciation Weekends at the PMA

Save 20% on PMA Store and PMA Café purchases, plus take advantage of a special gift membership promotion, during Member Appreciation Weekends, happening November 26-28 and December 3-5, 2021!

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Opening the doors to a more accessible PMA

“After years of planning, fundraising, and fabricating, we are thrilled to upgrade the [front] doors to be accessible and user friendly for our visitors.” —Mike Brown, Director of Campus Sustainability

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Portland Press Herald: Portland Museum of Art seeks young artists combatting climate change

“The best thing we can do is empower young people so they can make change. Art brings people together, and artists are really good about envisioning the future but also really good at seeing the moment in a way that we don’t see for a few years.” —Mark Bessire, Judy and Leonard Lauder Director

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Teaching Social Issues Educator Series

This three-part discussion series for K-12 educators will explore the images and diverse social issues documented by Walker Evans and how they relate to contemporary challenges. Educators will be paired with representatives from community organizations to form new connections and conversations around several topics ranging from social change, immigration, and trauma and resilience.

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Portland Press Herald: See the world through 3 different lenses at Portland Museum of Art

The museum is hosting three exhibitions that directly reflect their subjects: Clifford Ross: Sightlines, Walker Evans American Photographs and Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes,… But the brilliance of all this work is that it allows the viewer room for interpretation. There is no mistaking what these images are. What they mean is the mystery and reward of experiencing art in person.

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Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) and the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) Programming

Through the lens of the extraordinary work of Clifford Ross, the Portland Museum of Art and Gulf of Maine Research Institute will co-host an immersive, thought-provoking slate of public events throughout the Fall. We hope you'll dive below the surface with us!

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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History Stewardship Report

The first-ever major exhibition of David Driskell’s remarkable painting career explores seven decades of his artistic practice. Driskell's subjects, including the natural world and imagery of the African diaspora, result in a rich and vibrant story of art that is intrinsically tied to Maine and uniquely American.

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Boston Globe: Walker Evans close up: Portland Museum of Art shows ‘American Photographs’ as they were meant to be seen

A reprise of the 1938 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that helped elevate Evans from documentarian to artist, “American Photographs” comes with a pedigree; but even without it, the show would be an uncommon draw. It could just as easily have been called “People Love Walker Evans, So Here Are Some Walker Evans Pictures,” and it would be just as true.

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"Black Art: In the Absence of Light" Film Programming

David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History offers a major overview of David Driskell’s wide-ranging painting practice—and now you can take a deeper dive into his groundbreaking work as a mentor and curator with the extraordinary documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light. Presented by PMA Films and Indigo Arts Alliance, experience this free screening at USM’s Hannaford Hall in Portland on September 8 and join us the following evening on September 9 for a free virtual conversation with the film’s director Sam Pollard.

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Hyperallergic: David Driskell’s Wheel of Action

With the breadth of reference that enters smoothly and easily into his work, Driskell proves himself to be a one-of-a-kind artist — a scholar painter full of love and verve. Surely that is deserving of a museum’s attention. We ought to own up to the fact that it is long overdue.' This exhibition goes a long way toward making up for lost time.

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Recent Acquisition: "This Could All Be Yours" by Derrick Adams

Discover more about our recent acquisition to the PMA collection, "This Could All Be Yours," 2020 by Derrick Adams.

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