Press Releases last updated: 05/06/2008
PMA Director Daniel E. O’Leary Retires; Accepts New Role as Director of the Winslow Homer Studio Project (05/06/2008)
Contemporary Prints at Portland Museum of Art (04/15/2008)
Images of Animals Featured in Exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art (04/11/2008)
PMA Hires Landscape Architecture Firm of Mohr & Seredin (03/31/2008)
Final Days to See the Popular John Bisbee Exhibition at the PMA (03/11/2008)
Impressionist Landscapes on view at the Portland Museum of Art (03/10/2008)
Urban Seen: Images of City Life at the Portland Museum of Art (03/07/2008)
Works by Photographer André Kertész On View at the Portland Museum of Art (03/04/2008)
Photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe On View at the Portland Museum of Art This Summer (02/29/2008)
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows on view at the Portland Museum of Art (02/05/2008)
Contemporary Maine Artists On View at the Portland Museum of Art (02/05/2008)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Youth Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/05/2008)
Staff Promotions at the Portland Museum of Art (02/05/2008)
Historic Clapp House to Transfer from Maine College of Art to Portland Museum of Art (01/25/2008)
The Sculpture of Maine Artist John Bisbee at the Portland Museum of Art (01/07/2008)
A Landmark Exhibition of Work by Mexico’s First Woman Photographer (01/05/2008)
Portland Museum of Art Auction Raises Record Funds (11/20/2007)
New Acquisitions 2007 at the Portland Museum of Art (10/04/2007)
Angela Adams Speaks About Design at The Portland Museum of Art (09/05/2007)
The Scott M. Black Collection Returns to the Portland Museum of Art (09/05/2007)
Portland Museum of Art Awarded Major Grant (08/20/2007)
Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of European Art Opens at the Portland Museum of Art (08/20/2007)
Explore the medium of Graphite at the Portland Museum of Art (08/13/2007)
Portland Museum of Art Purchases YWCA Property (07/10/2007)
Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful (06/21/2007)
See a Little Hopper This Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (06/14/2007)
Both Sides of the Camera: Photographs from the Collection of Judith Ellis Glickman (06/07/2007)
Getting Personal: Maine Architects Design Furniture (05/09/2007)
Stacy Rodenberger Named 2007 Maine Art Education Advocate (05/03/2007)
Portland Museum of Art’s Education Initiative Receives Award (05/03/2007)
2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (03/20/2007)
Youth Art Month Exhibition (02/23/2007)
Revolutionary Prints by Kathe Kollwitz at the Portland Museum of Art (02/02/2007)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Yourh Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/02/2007)
Works by Early American Deaf Artist John Brewster at the Portland Museum of Art (01/04/2007)
Fun for Families at the Portland Museum of Art (12/19/2006)
Landscapes by 19th-Century Portland Painter Harrison Bird Brown at the Portland Museum of Art (12/08/2006)
New Additions to the Collection at the Portland Museum of Art (11/13/2006)
Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos at the Portland Museum of Art (11/03/2006)
Masterpieces From the Currier Museum of Art on view at the Portland Museum of Art (10/23/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Announces Artists Chosen for the 2007 Biennial (10/17/2006)
Exploration of Childhood in 19th-Century America at the Portland Museum of Art (10/13/2006)
Photographer and Children’s Advocate Wendy Ewald to Speak in Portland (10/13/2006)
Photographs of Maine Life on View at the Portland Museum of Art (09/08/2006)
Photojournalist James Nachtwey To Speak in Portland (08/03/2006)
A Century of Maine Prints at the Portland Museum of Art (07/31/2006)
Sale of William E. Thon Paintings and Drawings (06/22/2006)
Curator Carrie Haslett Takes Position as Program Officer at the Terra Foundation for American Art (06/16/2006)
Paris and the Countryside: Modern Life in Late-19th-Century France on view at the Portland Museum of Art (06/13/2006)
MAINE’S OWN MONA LISA MYSTERY (05/01/2006)
Frederic Edwin Church Landscapes on View at the Portland Museum of Art (04/26/2006)
Landscapes by Pioneering Maine Photographer William B. Post at the Portland Museum of Art (04/10/2006)
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART HIRES NEW CHIEF CURATOR (03/23/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Director of Foundation and Corporate Support (03/23/2006)
A Century of Maine Prints at the Portland Museum of Art (03/15/2006)
Fifty Years of Magnum Photography on View at the Portland Museum of Art (03/13/2006)
Works by Maine Indian Students on view at the Portland Museum of Art (03/13/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates Youth Art Month with Student Exhibition (02/27/2006)
Maine Architectural Drawings From 1925-1980 at the Portland Museum of Art (02/06/2006)
Architecture-Inspired Work by Artist George Lloyd at the Portland Museum of Art (02/06/2006)
Sam L. Cohen Grant Awarded to Portland Museum of Art (01/25/2006)
Portland Museum of Art Launches New Arts Curriculum for Grades K-2 (01/05/2006)
Art Museums and Galleries Celebrate 200 Years of Printmaking with Maine’s Largest Collaborative Arts Project (01/04/2006)
Surrealist Works from the Julien Levy Collection at the Portland Museum of Art (12/21/2005)
De Kooning Sculpture on View at the Portland Museum of Art (12/14/2005)
The Portland Museum of Art Highlights New Acquisitions From 2005 (11/15/2005)
The Work of World-Renowned Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude on View at the Portland Museum of Art (11/03/2005)
Rockwell Kent Documentary Film to be Screened at the Portland Museum of Art (09/21/2005)
Murray Hantman Works on View at the Portland Museum of Art (09/21/2005)
Portland Museum of Art Announces New Date for Christo and Jeanne-Claude Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2005 (08/22/2005)
Portland Museum of Art Launches New Website and Logo (08/22/2005)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Coordinator of Community Programs (08/18/2005)
Artist Neil Welliver Memoralized with Portland Museum of Art Exhibition (08/15/2005)
Portland Museum of Art’s Director of Education Named Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute (07/26/2005)
Jessica Skwire Routhier Promoted to Associate Curator at the Portland Museum of Art (07/22/2005)
Expressionist Maine Landscapes by John Walker at the Portland Museum of Art (07/02/2005)
Major Rockwell Kent Exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine (06/03/2005)
2005 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (04/07/2005)
Chief Curator Jessica Nicoll Takes Position as Director and Chief Curator of the Smith College Museum of Art (03/29/2005)
Portland Museum of Art’s Director of Education Named “2005 Art Advocate of the Year” (03/01/2005)
Maine Architectural Drawings from 1875-1925 Featured at the Portland Museum of Art (02/18/2005)
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White Featured at Portland Museum of Art (01/19/2005)
Works by 18th-Century Italian Printmaker Piranesi on View at the Portland Museum of Art (01/15/2005)
Portland Museum of Art to Display New Acquisitions (12/11/2004)
Rarely Seen Colonial and Federal Americana on View at the Portland Museum of Art (11/16/2004)
Portland Museum of Art Launches Capital Campaign to Acquire and Preserve the Winslow Homer Studio (09/15/2004)
Maine PBS Special Featuring the Portland Museum of Art to Air on August 25, 2004 (08/01/2004)
American Masters and Their European Muses at the Portland Museum of Art (06/24/2004)
Portland Museum of Art Presents Photographs by Diane Arbus (06/02/2004)
Early American Quilts from the Smithsonian on View at the Portland Museum of Art (04/02/2004)
Early Maine Architectural Drawings on View at the Portland Museum of Art (02/02/2004)
Major Retrospective of the Work of Photographer Eliot Porter at the Portland Museum of Art (01/22/2004)
Portland Museum of Art Launches Middle School Arts Curriculum (01/15/2004)
The Estate of Artist William Thon and the Portland Museum of Art Donate Art Work to Maine Schools (11/10/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Commemorates Portland Stage Company’s 30th Anniversary (11/08/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Payson Building with Special Exhibition (11/01/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Awarded Prestigious IMLS Grant (10/17/2003)
The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME, Receives National Preservation Honor Award (10/02/2003)
The Paintings of Maine Artist Thomas Crotty on View at the Portland Museum of Art (09/25/2003)
Works by Portland Painter Charles Frederick Kimball on View at the Portland Museum of Art (08/31/2003)
A Major Retrospective of Works by Renowned American Painter Fairfield Porter is on View at the Portland Museum of Art (06/19/2003)
Photographs by Legendary Photographer Edward Weston on View at the Portland Museum of Art (06/08/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Showcases Map Exhibition in Conjunction with International Map Symposium in Portland (05/17/2003)
Portland Museum of Art’s Educational Initiative Receives National Award (04/29/2003)
Portland Museum of Art Celebrates 20th Anniversary of I. M. Pei Building (04/15/2003)
2003 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (04/10/2003)
Portland Museum of Art’s McLellan House Featured on Bob Vila’s Home Again and on Made in Maine (02/02/2003)
Works by Internationally-Renowned Photographer Sebastiao Salgado at Six Maine Venues (01/15/2003)
Portland Museum of Art’s Director of Education Receives National Award (01/02/2003)
Rediscovering Samuel Peter Rolt Tricott at the Portland Museum of Art (12/14/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Launches New Learning Initiative for Maine Schools (12/13/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Presents Charles Codman Retrospective (11/17/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Opens Restored Historic Buildings (11/01/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Unveils New Logo and Tag Line (10/01/2002)
Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts 1952-1963 at the Portland Museum of Art (09/21/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Hires New Curator (07/15/2002)
Paul Caponigro: New England Days on View at the Portland Museum of Art (06/02/2002)
Bernard Langlais: Independent Spirit at the Portland Museum of Art (04/01/2002)
Archive: Alan Magee Monotypes on View at the Portland Museum of Art (03/02/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Launches Innovative Educational Initiative to Assist Maine’s Public Schools (02/13/2002)
The Poetry Within: The Life and Work of William Thon on view at the Portland Museum of Art (02/02/2002)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Largest Gift Given by an Artist (02/26/2001)
Portland Museum of Art Receives Large Gift from the Hearst Foundation (03/07/2000)
Neo-Impressionism Exhibition to Open this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art (02/06/2000)