Baker, Teresa (Mandan/Hidatsa). Looking Up. 2022, yarn, spray paint, and leather on AstroTurf, 96 × 37 in. Museum purchase with support from the Contemporary Art Fund. 2022.31. Join artist Teresa Baker in conversation with Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA). Through a mixed media practice that combines both artificial and natural...
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...
Alfred Thompson Bricher, United States, 1837–1908, Coastal Scene (Bay of Fundy, Canada) Ships Along the Shore, 1885–1890, oil on canvas, 15 13/16 x 32 inches, Courtesy of Portland Museum of Art. The PMA and Opera Maine's prestigious Studio Artist Program present a special summer recital, performing a diverse repertoire spanning multiple genres in response to...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Joy! Movement! Celebration! Energy!Enjoy a performance of beloved classical pieces performed by students and recent graduates of the Juilliard School. The selection of music is based around the PMA Collection and curated by the BVF Associate Artists, Leerone Hakami and Jessica Wu violins, Weikuan Wang viola, and Noah Koh cello. A gift to the City...
10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Juneteenth Open House, Free Admission for all 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Juneteenth Lecture: “Portland’s Historic Black Community and the Underground Railroad” with Seth Goldstein
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...
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wander or cool off in the galleries. Take an art break with free admission all day. 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Meet near the Seven sculpture for drop-in, family-friendly activities and Parade watching. 1:00 p.m. Pride Portland! Parade The Portland Museum of Artists at the heart of the Arts District...
Join Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, for a gallery talk in the exhibition Precious: The Value of Ornament. Learn about the genesis of the exhibition, provenance and significance of select works, and how ideas of beauty, material value, and ornament shape the ways museums collect and interpret objects today.
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
With Historian Seth Goldstein At the turn of the twentieth century, as Maine’s shipbuilding, ice harvesting, and quarrying industries declined, a new identity began to take shape: Vacationland. Inspired by images of Maine’s pastoral beauty, visitors from across the Northeast sought respite along its coasts and in its towns—many calling themselves “rusticators.” Join historian Seth...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Newell Convers Wyeth, Georges Islands, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1928-1929, oil on canvas, 42 3/16 x 48 1/8 in. Anonymous gift, Portland Museum of Art, 1984.63. An Immersive Art History Course at the Portland Museum of Art and offsite in Midcoast Maine Maine has captivated artists, writers, and promoters for over two centuries as an imagined...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Newell Convers Wyeth, Georges Islands, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1928-1929, oil on canvas, 42 3/16 x 48 1/8 in. Anonymous gift, Portland Museum of Art, 1984.63. An Immersive Art History Course at the Portland Museum of Art and offsite in Midcoast Maine Maine has captivated artists, writers, and promoters for over two centuries as an imagined...
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.
Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! On the third Thursday of every month, the PMA offers free admission all day and evening for all. Explore the galleries, enjoy family-friendly art-making and activities, or experience a dynamic lineup of rotating music, food trucks, films, performances, and programs.