Learn more about this collection highlight, now on view in the third floor of the Payson Building!
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Again and again, one can feel Webb’s excitement and pleasure in recording what he’s seeing. He demonstrates an alertness to cultural collision and incongruity.
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The exhibit features art created by six young artists who, out of more than 500 entries, were selected as the winners of this year’s Tidal Shift Award.
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If I was a tree, what would I be? If I was a tree who might live in me, beside me, beneath me? If I was a tree, what might I see? Read the renga poem that you created on Family Day that was inspired by these questions!
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As we enter the final days of American Perspectives on view, learn about how this collection came to be on view at the PMA, the theme of storytelling throughout, and what defines “folk art.”
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Join us for free educator programs and workshops happening at the PMA this spring.
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In conjunction with our major photography exhibition, Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa, PMA Films will be screening films throughout May that expand on the questions posed by the exhibit, reckoning with the gaze of the camera and its role in the creation of truth, beauty, empathy, and propaganda.
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“American Perspectives” is chock full of inviting oddities and some truly great works, spanning nearly 2½ centuries, from rural to urban, north to south, east to west.
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Meet the finalists for this year’s Tidal Shift Awards, a prize for young artists who want to solve our climate crisis. Stay tuned for the winners to be announced on April 20th with the award-winning artwork on view at the museum!
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A responsive and living installation entitled Passages in American Art.
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Reminisce on the galleries blooming with florals and visitors during Art in Bloom 2023!
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Five hundred people enjoyed the Portland Museum of Art’s first Third Thursday on March 16, capturing the community’s love of First Friday art walks and happy hour hangouts all in one place.
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News Center Maine’s Hannah Yechivi spoke with young artists featured in the PMA’s Youth Art Month exhibition.
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Enjoy our virtual Art in Bloom gallery, featuring brilliant floral designs from past years.
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Say hello to a few of our art educators that help make Youth Art Month possible!
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In planning the programming and interpretation of this exhibition, we consulted with an interdisciplinary advisory group in Fall 2022. With gratitude, we acknowledge the thoughtful feedback and support that we received from these contributors.
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High school student Brynn Vogel's artwork was selected for the Youth Art Month exhibit, one of the best-loved exhibits for both staff and patrons of the museum.
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Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa is on view at the PMA March 24 through June 18, 2023.
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“The arts bring learning to life, and make life itself more enjoyable.”
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“I chose to become an art educator to help students find their voice the same way my art teachers helped me to find mine.”
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