Hard Tellin'...: Pictures of Maine

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.

Portland High School Digital Exhibition: Vivi[d]evolution

Portland High School Advanced Art students and the PMA collaborated to explore themes including memory, conflict, or identity through abstraction.

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Boston Globe Review: In Portland, celebrating a neighbor’s 50th anniversary

The show includes almost 100 photographs from nearly 80 photographers, as well as a selection of Workshops-related publications.

newsGuest UserJune 30, 2023maine media

Free Weekend Look Back: Pride and Juneteenth

We want to relive this special weekend all over again, so here are some photos and memories we wanted to share with you from this year’s Pride and Juneteenth celebrations!

Guest UserJune 29, 2023pma picks

Elizabeth Colomba Selects: Films Inspired by "Mythologies"

In conjunction with our exhibition, Elizabeth Colomba: Mythologies, PMA Films will be screening films hand-picked by Colomba on Saturdays in July.

Guest UserJune 28, 2023

Portland Press Herald Art review: Portland, Ogunquit museums give collections contemporary context

It’s a show where labels really matter because they give new, contemporary context with which to consider the works on view. They really push us to think in new ways about who gets to write the history of art in America, who was left out of it and how that is – thankfully – changing.

newsGuest UserJune 26, 2023passages