Press Release: Portland Museum of Art and SPFPA Jointly Announce Contract

The Portland Museum of Art and the International Union of Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) are proud to jointly announce the ratification of a contract for all security positions within the museum.

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Press Release: Portland Museum of Art Presents Mass Timber Maine Conference

The Portland Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the Maine Mass Timber Conference, taking place from November 13 to 15, 2024, in Portland, Maine. This groundbreaking event will bring together industry leaders, artists, innovators, and visionaries to explore the future of construction through mass timber technology.  

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First American Art Magazine: Exhibition Reviews "Jeremy Frey: Woven"

"Having already received many of the highest honors reserved for Native American artists including Best of Show at both the Heard Fair and Santa Fe Indian Market, Frey was adamant that the exhibition position his work as contemporary art. “I didn’t want to do a basket show,” he stated at the show’s opening. As he told Atlas Obscura, “I’ve spent my whole career trying to redefine what ash can be.” [1] Woven, therefore, represents basket weaving in an expanded sense. Rather than a retrospective display of finished works, it frames Frey’s longstanding weaving practice as a jumping-off point for explorations of new techniques and media."

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Boston Globe: Jeremy Frey wins Rappaport Prize, the first Indigenous artist to receive the award

Now, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has awarded Frey, an enrolled member of the Passamaquoddy tribe, the 25th annual Rappaport Prize, a $50,000 cash award to honor a contemporary artist working in New England.

“It’s overwhelming,” said Frey, 45, reached by phone in rural Maine. “I still haven’t processed it fully.”

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Boston Globe: Woven wonders at the Portland Museum of Art

Taking up an ancient practice, Jeremy Frey carries it into the here and now.

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Jeremy Frey and Basket Weaving

Accompanying the exhibition Jeremy Frey: Woven, in this iteration of The Workshop visitors can delve deeper into Frey’s creative process.

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Portland Press Herald: Opinion: PMA’s plans reflect vision of art for all

“The museum's Blueprint expansion was borne of community involvement, a love of art and a commitment to making it available to as many as possible.”

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This Month At Your Museum: August 2024

We’re halfway through the summer, yet there’s still so much in store. From Cig Harvey sharing how Maine influences her work to the Summer Party to a special Jeremy Frey themed Family Day, August at the museum is like an Aperol spritz for your soul.

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Down East Magazine: The Modern Master of Wabanaki Basketry

“His legacy is a new energy — a boldly contemporary take on an ancient woodland craft. ‘I’ve worked for more than 20 years reinventing this traditional art form,’ Frey says.”

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Apollo Magazine: Jeremy Frey weaves new worlds

Frey wants to have it all: to be a contemporary traditionalist, an artist-artisan, an internationalist exponent of his own tribe. It hasn’t been easy. More than two decades of unremitting effort, willpower and imagination have been necessary to get him this far.

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This Month At Your Museum: July 2024

From marquee programs such as the Nelson Social Justice Lecture to curator-led tours of Jeremy Frey: Woven to the first feature-length documentary of Jaime Wyeth—July is the season to visit your museum.

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New York Times: 36 Hours in Portland, Maine

While at the museum, you can see paintings by Winslow Homer and N.C. Wyeth, but don’t miss the work of artists who have broadened and deepened the legacy of Maine art in recent decades, including paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges and Daniel Minter, and sculpture by Lauren Fensterstock.

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Hyperallergic: Alex Katz’s Love Affair With Maine

The artist has donated over 150 works from his foundation’s collection to the Portland Museum of Art, among other institutions in the state.

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Boston Art Review: Fourteen Must-See Museum Exhibitions to Check Out in New England This Summer

“Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey has become one of the most awarded and collected Indigenous basket weavers in the country for his contemporary mastery of the Wabanaki weaving tradition.”

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This Month At Your Museum: June 2024

Summer is in full swing this month as we open Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter revel in Jeremy Frey: Woven, and Celebrate Pride and Juneteenth with free community days.

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"The Talk of the Town": June PMA Films Series

In conjunction with our new exhibition, Peggy Bacon: Biting, Never Bitter, PMA Films will be screening films throughout June that explore classic filmic representations of the young female artist scheming and striving to make it in the big city.

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Maine Calling: Jeremy Frey, Theresa Secord, and Ramey Mize

“Wabanaki people originally wove baskets for functional purposes, but, over time, basketmaking has evolved into more of an art form. Today, some have taken the art of basketmaking to new levels--such as the renowned Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey.”

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American Craft Magazine: Craft Happenings, Summer 2024

Frey, a celebrated seventh-generation Indigenous basketmaker, uses the traditional designs of the Wabanaki tribal confederation of New England and the Canadian Maritimes as takeoff points for bold departures.

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PMA Films: Ethan Hawke's Flannery O'Connor biopic, a look at the work of John Singer Sargent, and an exciting June film series

Check out what’s new in PMA Films!

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Boston Globe: In a solo show at the Portland Museum of Art, Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey transforms an ancient tradition

Frey’s baskets, frankly, astonish.

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