Join us for a special brunch with jazz and blooms! Drop in for Jazz Brunch in the PMA Café by the Black Tie Company featuring Chris Oberholzer Band and enjoy signature drinks and yummy breakfast treats. No registration required; seating is first-come, first-served.
SOLD OUT | Botanical Block Printing Workshop with Katharine Watson Sunday, March 29 | 3–6 pm Open Studio, 199 Pleasant Ave Portland $120 for members, $150 for public This event is SOLD OUT. Explore botanical imagery through the lens of printmaking in this hands-on workshop facilitated by Portland artist Katharine Watson. Participants may draw inspiration...
Start your morning surrounded by art. Join Greener Postures Yoga for a gentle session designed for all levels, blending mindful movement with the peaceful atmosphere of the museum’s galleries. This program is designed to be welcoming and accessible to participants of all ages and abilities. No prior experience with yoga or meditation is required. Water...
Join artist Shane Charles as he discusses his recent installation Into the Sun, as part of the PMA’s long-standing exhibition Passages in American Art. Charles’ installation practice intersects performance, sculpture, and mixed-media work within a cartographic and archaeological framework. Born in Bangor, Maine, and raised along the Penobscot River between Old Town and the Penobscot...
Start your morning surrounded by art. Join Greener Postures Yoga for a gentle session designed for all levels, blending mindful movement with the peaceful atmosphere of the museum’s galleries. This program is designed to be welcoming and accessible to participants of all ages and abilities. No prior experience with yoga or meditation is required. Water...
Quiet your mind, relieve stress, and get into a contemplative mood with this 30-minute guided mindfulness session, held in the heart of the galleries. Take a pause in your day to reconnect through breath and stillness in a setting that invites presence and slow looking.
Take a break from the routine and recharge with art. Connect with other new parents and caregivers, share stories, and enjoy a moment for yourself at the PMA. Join a guided visit exploring artworks through the lens of parenthood and caregiving, led by PMA Educators. All are welcome to feed, soothe, or step out as...
Take a midday pause with a closer look at highlights from the museum’s collection of French art. This informal gallery talk will explore works by artists including Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, and Auguste Rodin. Led by Museum Educator, Joanne Sterling.
Join The Maine Outdoor Film Festival, The Maine Seaweed Council and The Maine Farmed Seafood Coalition and kick off Maine Seaweed Week with an evening of short films followed by a panel discussion. Film synopsis, panelists, and tickets available here: maineoutdoorfilmfestival.com/maines-seaweed-moment/ Short Film Program: SEAWEED FARMING 101 | 1.23 minutes | by World Wildlife Fund...
Join us for a lecture and conversation with artist Chitra Ganesh, alongside Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA). Across a twenty-year practice, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animations, wall drawings,...
Brian Smith discusses Gay Bar, a meticulously beaded sculpture that foregrounds surface, repetition, and ornament as sites of meaning. Drawing from his broader practice, Smith considers how labor-intensive processes and material excess intersect with queer aesthetics, transforming notions of preciousness into something both sensorial and conceptual. Brian Smith is a Portland, Maine-based artist working across...
Take a midday pause with a closer look at works with connections to Japan in the PMA’s Collection. This informal gallery talk will explore themes of nature, seasonality, craftsmanship, and storytelling, offering insight into artistic traditions and cultural contexts across time. Led by Museum Educator, Lynda McCann-Olson
The Portland String Quartet's final program of the 57th season promises to be pure, weightless, soaring delight. Blending the luscious sounds of William Walton's String Quartet in A minor, Haydn’s airy Quartet in C Major (Op. 33, No. 3 “the Bird”), and a volitant folk tune composed by the Danish String Quartet, Airborne is bound...
Portland’s Historic Black Community and the Underground Railroad: Historian Seth Goldstein offers tours of the Portland Freedom Trail and has translated some of his tour content for this presentation. Using artwork from the PMA collection Seth will provide an examination of Portland’s historic Black community. Community members purchased their homes in the Munjoy Hill section...