With a nod toward the Portland Museum of Art’s lasting influence on producer [Karlina] Lyons, the film is coming to Portland as part of a 10-city U.S. tour.
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One of Homer’s greatest works (if not one of the finest American landscape paintings of the 19th century), “Weatherbeaten” powerfully captures the fearsome beauty of coastal Maine.
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The time is now to incentivize mass timber as a go-to building material to maximize long-lasting and positive outcomes for our economies and environment.
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The Portland Museum of Art is proud to announce it has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture in support of The PMA Blueprint: Building a Landmark for the Future.
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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores Winslow Homer, Blackness, and AI for the 2023 Bernard Osher Lecture. Watch the recording of the June 6 program here!
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The PMA’s Assistant Curator of American Art, Ramey Mize, spoke with News Center Maine about Passages in American Art.
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The PMA knows that art has a way of activating communities around social change and is hosting exhibitions […] examining the growing interconnectivity of major port cities, cultures, histories, and more.
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Visit with FREE admission June 17-19 and join us for special programming to celebrate Pride Month and Juneteenth!
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Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation are in dialogue with the PMA collection, and taken together they demonstrate the range and significance of contemporary art and the ideas and issues it can uniquely address.
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“Art takes so many different forms,” said Mize. “It’s not just a painting on a wall. That’s a big takeaway of this project.”
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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.
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LEVER 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.
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In 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.
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“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.
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To learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources.
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To learn more about the people, land and water discussed in Passages, please check out these resources.
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