Jenny Ibsen

Jenny Ibsen is an artist, restaurant worker, and organizer based in Portland, ME. Born in China and raised in Connecticut, Ibsen considers her studio practice community-centered, creating tablescapes that encourage engagement amongst friends and strangers alike.

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Hector Nevarez Magaña

Hector Nevarez Magaña is a Mexican-American photographer living and working in Portland, Maine. Originally from East Palo Alto, California, Hector attended Bowdoin College, where he received his BA in Visual Arts in 2016. After moving to Portland, he co-founded New System Exhibitions, an artist-run exhibition space in the Bayside neighborhood, where he currently maintains and operates his own darkroom.

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Tessa Greene O’Brien

A Maine native, Tessa Greene O’Brien is an artist & curator based in South Portland. She received a BS degree in Fine Art from Skidmore College and an MFA from Maine College of Art and Design. O'Brien has shown throughout the United States.

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Brian Smith

Brian Smith is a Portland, ME based artist who works in sculpture, painting, and drawing. He is inspired by queer ecological theory, and what it offers in the context of climate change. 

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Jay Stern

Jay Stern received a BFA in Painting from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University. This year Stern will exhibit two solo presentations in Portland, Maine and Los Angeles, and show new work in a group exhibition at UTA Artist Space in Atlanta.

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Anna Valenti

Anna Valenti is an artist born in Lake George, New York. Trained in ceramics, Valenti's practice brings together fiberclay, hemp, and lime. Her work builds upon weaving structures and gathering spaces to explore connectivity.

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Holden Willard

Holden Willard is a painter based in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Montserrat College of Art in May of 2021 and received his BFA in Painting, however his interests serve multiple mediums: printmaking, performance, collage & woodworking.

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PMA Films: Ken Loach's touching final film and Bates Film Festival brings Chris Cooper and John Sayles to the PMA!

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Vogue: Artist Jeremy Frey Puts His Own Spin on a Traditional Art

“The exhibition is a dazzling showcase of his ability to take unconventional materials…and create objects of delicate, rhythmic delight.”

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New York Times: Baskets Holding the Identity of an Indigenous People

The baskets of Jeremy Frey from the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine have caught the attention of the art world.

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PMA Films: Filmmaker Ian Cheney shows us The Arc of Oblivion, plus Edward Yang's masterful final film and a brash comedy about the modern economy

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This Month At Your Museum: May 2024

This month presents the opening of Jeremy Frey: Woven, the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States.

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PMA Films: An enchanting tomb-raider caper, more Edward Yang, a Tarkovsky restoration, and an urgent documentary about sea-level rise

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'Art in Bloom' exhibit at Portland Museum of Art
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Portland Press Herald: See these new acquisitions by Portland Museum of Art, before they go back into storage

The museum has a collection of 19,000 objects and counting, and only a fraction are on display at any given time. We look at how these pieces get to the museum and where they go when they're not on display.

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