Maine’s Black History and BIPOC-led Spaces

To learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources. 

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Wabanaki Peoples and Water Rights

To learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources. 

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Passages Music Kiosk

Learn more about the musicians featured in Passages in American Art.

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Passages Resource Guide

To learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources. 

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A New Era in Wabanaki Studies Education in Maine

We partnered with Portland Public Schools to host Wabanaki Studies Educator Professional Development while gearing up for a major reinstallation of the American art collection, Passages in American Art.

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Perspective from the sky: Remembering Yvonne Helene Jacquette

“Yvonne was beloved by fellow painters and was able to bridge generations of art making through her unique vision that was poignant, dramatic, and subtle.”

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Portland Press Herald: See where some of Maine’s most famous artists worked

Visitors get a newly minted field guide with information about Homer, his works, a chronology of his life, a family tree, notes on the area’s geology and local flora and fauna, and so on.

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Boston Globe: 10 museum shows you’ll want to wander this summer

With this complete reinstallation of its permanent collection, the Portland Museum of Art enters the expanding fray of American art museums interrogating their own historical collecting practices with a critical eye.

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Portland Press Herald: The must-see art exhibitions at Maine museums this year

Fill your summer with art by taking in these 16 shows at museums from Ogunquit to Rockland.

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Chris Newell, Akomawt
endawnis Spears, Akomawt
Meadow Dibble, Atlantic Black Box
Seth Goldstein, Atlantic Black Box
Jordia Benjamin, Indigo Arts Alliance
Marcia Minter, Indigo Arts Alliance
Fiona Hopper, Portland Public Schools
Press Release: Portland Museum of Art announces the hire of Sayantan Mukhopadhyay as Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Mukhopadhyay will step into his new role in June.

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News Center Maine: Museums across Maine offer free, reduced admission for low-income families

The "Museums for All" program allows everyone to see Maine's most treasured pieces, regardless of their financial situation.

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