Susie Konkel Pass

SKP means everyone 21 and under visits for free. Get more out of your museum experience with invitations to fun events, select free film screenings, and more with the Susie Konkel Pass.

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Mass Timber Makes Sense For ME

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. We are excited to partner with LEVER Architecture and lead by example through our new, landmark building.

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Judy Glickman Lauder Lecture

The Judy Glickman Lecture provides in-depth insight into the people, perspectives, and culture of photography.

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Bangor Daily News: Maine museums are overflowing with world-class photography exhibits

By bringing out the big guns, the show seeks to attract a wide audience, of course, but also show the outsized, cross-pollinating impact the little Maine school has had on the photographic world over the years. 

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Bilisa Abdullahi, Phagophobia

This artwork is my way of expressing my childhood fear that still scares me till this day. 

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Sal Beyer-Labrecque, Understanding and Acceptance

I created a series of sculptures that follow my experience of understanding and accepting my gender identity.

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Bailey Erickson, Memories Pass

This piece as a whole can be read in multiple ways whether it be read left to right as giving memories away, or vice versa, taking in memories.

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Lily Hutchins, Losing Time

My three pieces represent the loss of core childhood memories, imitating the form of sensory neurons which transmit and make sense of these memories as well as trigger the feeling of nostalgia.

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Jesseca Kelsey, The spoiled cocoon

This piece features the effect a traumatic event has on the human heart and mind.

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Anita Kim, Untitled

This line of work is inspired by the stages of grief and the emotions that a person holds within.

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Cristo Manuel, Untitled

Its intended purpose was to demonstrate difference between childhood and the beginning of adulthood and all its differences going from different stages of both.

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Charlie Norris, Untitled

In his most recent piece, Norris used scrap metal to create an interactive element of sound.

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Isabella Tarkinson, Elementary

Using consistent themes throughout the entirety of the piece, I tried to display the physical tolls of coming out at an early age, the experiences of bullying, and traumatic injuries.  

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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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Friends of the Collection

The Friends of the Collection creates an opportunity for you to directly support the addition of specific artworks to the PMA’s collection, and this year’s acquisition focus is The Sights and Sounds of Night by Vincent Smith.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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