• (Past Event) PMA Films: The History of Concrete

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

    Directed by John Wilson. 101 minutes (followed by pre-recorded discussion). Not Rated. In English. This screening will be followed by a pre-recorded, 15-minute discussion between director John Wilson and Josh Safdie. Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series “How To with John Wilson”, NYC documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • (Past Event) Contemporaries Tour of Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher

    Contemporaries Members Tour celebrating Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher at the Portland Museum of Art . Registration for this tour and reception is required. Please register online If you have any questions, you are welcome to reach out to Lily Spearsmith, Annual Gifts Officer at 207-318-2055 or [email protected] You can increase your support of the arts in...

  • (Past Event) Noontime Talk: Maritime History and Homer

    Explore the maritime world that inspired Winslow Homer in this special gallery talk inside Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher. Maritime historian Seth Goldstein of the South Portland Historical Society will share the history of New England's seafaring culture and reveal how it shaped some of Homer's most iconic drawings, etchings, and paintings. Bio: Seth Goldstein grew...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Chronovisor

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

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: “A Few Small Odysseys”: Good Time (2017)

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

    Directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. 101 minutes. Rated R. In English. Following the mind-bending Heaven Knows What, celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie return to the mean streets of New York City with Good Time, a hypnotic crime thriller that explores with bracing immediacy the tragic sway of family and fate. After a...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) (Presented with Portland Symphony Orchestra)

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

    Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. 119 minutes. Rated PG. Dubbed in English. This screening will be introduced by Portland Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Morihiko Nakahara. He will lead the Portland Symphony Orchestra in performances of "The Music of Studio Ghibli" on October 10 and 11 at Merrill Auditorium. Tickets for this screening are free for PSO...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Chronovisor

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

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Chronovisor

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

    Directed by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. 100 minutes. Not Rated. In French, English, German, and Italian with English subtitles. While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any...

  • (Past Event) Indigenous Peoples Day Open House

    Jared Lank (Mi’kmaq, born 1991), Still from Bay of Herons, 2023, single-channel video with sound, 7 minutes and 15 seconds. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Museum purchase with exchange funds from the bequest of Howard K. and Alison McEldowney Walter, 2025.46. © Jared Lank. Image courtesy of the artist Join us for Indigenous Peoples’ Day at...

    Free
  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild] (Free Screening)

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

    Directed by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil. 80 minutes. Not Rated. In English and Anishinaabemowin with English subtitles. Aanikoobijigan documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This alliance, made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes, fights to bring their Ancestors and funerary objects home from...

  • (Past Event) PMA Films: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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

    Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka. 118 minutes. Rated R. In English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles. Winner, Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic), 2026 Sundance Film Festival Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an...

  • (Past Event) Museum Playdate: Love Lab Lantern Making Workshop

    Museum Playdates

    Museum Playdate is a monthly morning for young children and their caregivers to slow down, explore, and make things together. Free admission. No registration is required. Designed for children and their caregivers of all ages. Please note this month's program takes place outside in PMA | AMP. In this special edition of Museum Playdate, we will...

    Free
  • (Past Event) Third Thursday

    Third Thursdays at the PMA is Art for All! Third Thursday at the PMA is Art for All, with free admission all day and evening and opportunities to connect through creativity, community, and discovery.  Join us in the galleries and PMA | AMP, a new, free community pavilion and public programming space. Visitors can create lanterns with Love Lab Studio as...

  • (Past Event) The Art of Intaglio Printmaking: Live Demonstrations 

    Discover the printmaking process behind the exhibition Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher. Printmaker Winslow Trainum demonstrates the art of intaglio printmaking, inking an etched copper plate, wiping it by hand, and running it through a traditional press to reveal an image transferred from plate to paper. Working from his studio at Prouts Neck, Maine, Homer created...

    Free
  • (Past Event) Champlain Film Festival: Afrotōpia (with virtual filmmaker discussion)

    Directed by David Mboussou. 128 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. Ezekiel, a 25-year-old aspiring filmmaker, lives in the heart of the Congo Basin under the authority of his father, Maurice, a powerful businessman who opposes his artistic ambitions. When Ezekiel is forced to join the family logging business, he...

  • (Past Event) Drop-In Art Making with Love Lab: Lantern Making

    The PMA welcomes Love Lab Studio for a lantern making project to help share your light with the community. Collaborate with Love Lab Studio to create your own lanterns and then join the Lantern Walk at Deering Oaks park on Sunday, October 25th. Love Lab Studio believes that art, creativity and joy are necessary as...

  • (Past Event) Champlain Film Festival: Colours of Time/La Venue de l’Avenir (followed by discussion)

    Directed by Cédric Klapisch. 124 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. In French with English subtitles. This screening will be followed by a discussion with Andrew Eschelbacher, PMA Deputy Director and Head of Art and Exhibitions. Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a...