• Winter Bash 2026

    March 7, 2026 PMA's most vibrant party of the year Tickets on sale now! This year's Bash is inspired by the beauty and power of movement and liminal spaces—those fleeting moments between stillness and motion. little house dance will draw guests into worlds of movement ritual and duration, DJ Ben Spalding spins vinyl providing an...

  • The 2026 Bernard Osher Lecture: “Women Laughing” film screening and discussion Featuring Heather Cox Richardson and Liza Donnelly

    Hannaford Hall — Abromson Community Education Center 88 Bedford St, Portland, Maine, United States

    What happens when humor becomes a tool for history and resistance? Join historian Heather Cox Richardson and writer/cartoonist Liza Donnelly for a screening of Donnelly’s new documentary, Women Laughing. The film brings together a witty crew of New Yorker women cartoonists to discuss their passion and creative process as they draw together, and share a...

  • 2026 Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture Chitra Ganesh: Rainbow Bodies

    Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, United States

    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,...