In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
An advisory committee shaped the project around three major themes – Maine’s role in transatlantic slavery, environmental change and the ongoing presence of Wabanaki and other Indigenous nations throughout North America. The resulting exhibit includes items that visitors will see for the first time and familiar works that will be framed in new ways.
Read MoreLEVER Architecture, noted for its pioneering embrace of mass-timber construction, is making its mark on the other Portland—the similarly forest-flanked one in Maine—with a $100 million revamp of that city’s most venerable public art institution.
Read MoreIn partnership with the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, the PMA commissioned photographer Egide Foxworth to document community members with photographs brought from the African continent to Maine.
Read More“Outside the Frame” makes plain how photography initiated as pure documentation can transmute into political commentary and critique when viewed through the lens of our contemporary consciousness.
Read MoreTo learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources.
Read MoreTo learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources.
Read MoreTo learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources.
Read MoreTo learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources.
Read MoreLearn more about the musicians featured in Passages in American Art.
Read MoreTo learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreVisitors 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.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreFill your summer with art by taking in these 16 shows at museums from Ogunquit to Rockland.
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