That's a wrap for Art in Bloom 2023!

Art in Bloom arrived at the PMA just at the right time to get us out of the winter doldrums and feel the spring vibes

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This year marked the largest Art in Bloom in recent history, with 21 floral designers creating art-inspired arrangements in the galleries. The designers brought their artwork inspirations to life with floral arrangements, and we were lucky enough to catch some of them in the galleries making their final touches!

The galleries bloomed with visitors all week to experience these arrangements. (Yes, the flowers smelled as good as they looked.) Audiences also enjoyed special floral programming including a centerpiece workshop with Katie Lovins of Clo Floral, auditorium programs with Wild Seed Project and Backyard Blooms, musical performances by Portland Symphony Orchestra and Katie Oberholtzer Quartet, and more.

Thank you to the over 5,000 visitors who explored the galleries and made this year’s Art in Bloom an event to remember! The energy and excitement continues with upcoming programs like Slow Art Day, Third Thursdays, Family Day, and more, so save the dates and register today.

Programs & Events
SOLD OUT | Course: “Picturing Maine: The Wyeth Family in Historical Context”
Oct 7
SOLD OUT | Course: “Picturing Maine: The Wyeth Family in Historical Context”

An immersive four-day class focusing on the Wyeth family and the artwork inspired by Maine’s natural beauty.  

Mindfulness in the Galleries
Oct 10
Mindfulness in the Galleries

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.

Drawing in the Galleries
Oct 10
Drawing in the Galleries

Visit the museum for drop-in drawing sessions in the galleries during Free Friday hours!  

Get creative! Join us every 2nd Friday for Drawing in the Galleries during Free Friday. We’ll provide the materials—you bring the inspiration! No experience needed, just drop in and sketch surrounded by art. 

Lantern Making Workshop with Love Lab Studio
Oct 11
Lantern Making Workshop with Love Lab Studio

Join the PMA and Love Lab Studio for a Lantern Making Workshop. Create a lantern in preparation for the Portland Lantern Walk on Sunday, October 19th at 5pm at Deering Oaks Park.

PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Oct 11
PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

107 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Peter Weir. In English. DCP.

This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema.

Indigenous Peoples Day Open House
Oct 13
Indigenous Peoples Day Open House

Join us for Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the Portland Museum of Art with free admission all day. Explore the galleries, join special tours, take part in hands-on artmaking, and experience programs and films highlighting Indigenous art and artists.

Free Access for All on Third Thursday
Oct 16
Free Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

The Haunted PMA Tour
Oct 16
The Haunted PMA Tour

Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their histories take on a chilling new light. This interactive tour blends art, folklore, and a touch of the supernatural: perfect for Halloween at the museum! 

(Sold Out) Lecture | Patrick Bringley: All the Beauty in the World
Oct 16
(Sold Out) Lecture | Patrick Bringley: All the Beauty in the World

Patrick Bringley, author of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, offers an insightful and moving talk about finding comfort and meaning in the beauty and solitude of art.

Noontime Curator Talk | "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention"
Oct 17
Noontime Curator Talk | "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention"

Join Associate Curator Sayantan Mukhopadhyay for a closer look at Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention. Learn how Hartigan navigated shifting artistic currents, forged her own visual language, and challenged expectations in postwar American art.

Noontime Talk | Poetry in Dialogue: Recover Community, Collaborate
Oct 24
Noontime Talk | Poetry in Dialogue: Recover Community, Collaborate

In this Noontime Talk, t love smith from Trans Poetics Archive will discuss how creative collaboration is the connection that helps thread together a resilient community. When we create together, we build new connections in the world and we also build new connections in our individual brains leading to new perceptions.

"LISTEN" Halcyon Performance | Free Friday
Oct 24
"LISTEN" Halcyon Performance | Free Friday

Join us this Free Friday in the Selma Wolf Black Great Hall for performances of Halcyon’s Listen: a 60-minute multimedia performance that combines live string quartet music synchronized to a stop-motion film.  

PMA Films: "Zombies: A Brief History": I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Oct 24
PMA Films: "Zombies: A Brief History": I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

69 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. In English.

Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. Screens as part of “Zombies: A Brief History.”

PMA Films: "Zombies: A Brief History": Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Oct 25
PMA Films: "Zombies: A Brief History": Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

115 minutes. Rated PG. Directed by Philip Kaufman. In English. DCP.

This dazzling, whip-smart remake of the 1956 spine-tingler stars Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy as characters caught in an eerie tale of possession by alien pod-people. Screens as part of “Zombies: A Brief History.”

PMA Films: "Zombies: A Brief History": 28 Years Later
Oct 26
PMA Films: "Zombies: A Brief History": 28 Years Later

115 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Danny Boyle. In English. DCP.

Danny Boyle’s audacious rekindling of the zombie franchise, a blast of stylistic invention threaded with trenchant commentary on a post-Brexit Britain, screens as part of “Zombies: A Brief History.”

The Haunted PMA Tour
Oct 30
The Haunted PMA Tour

Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their histories take on a chilling new light. This interactive tour blends art, folklore, and a touch of the supernatural: perfect for Halloween at the museum! 

Noontime Talk | The Haunted PMA Tour
Oct 31
Noontime Talk | The Haunted PMA Tour

Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their histories take on a chilling new light. This interactive tour blends art, folklore, and a touch of the supernatural: perfect for Halloween at the museum! 

The Haunted PMA Tour
Oct 31
The Haunted PMA Tour

Step inside the 19th-century McLellan House and beyond as PMA Educators share spine-tingling stories hidden in the museum’s walls. Using the powers of close observation and imagination, artworks and their histories take on a chilling new light. This interactive tour blends art, folklore, and a touch of the supernatural: perfect for Halloween at the museum! 

PMA Films: Final Frontier (with filmmaker Heidi Burkey and Denis Boudreau)
Nov 1
PMA Films: Final Frontier (with filmmaker Heidi Burkey and Denis Boudreau)

18 minutes (followed by discussion). Not Rated. Directed by Heidi Burkey. In English. DCP.

On a quiet farm in Maine, a painter grapples with blindness and past traumas while completing the centerpiece for his first art show in years. Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and artist Denis Boudreau.

PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Nov 2
PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

116 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In Italian, French, German, and English with English subtitles.

The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in. Recently named the #1 film of the 1970s by IndieWire.

Noontime Talk | Poetry in Dialogue with Maya Williams
Nov 7
Noontime Talk | Poetry in Dialogue with Maya Williams

Join Maya Williams, former Portland Poet Laureate in Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention. Maya will share their own work in conversation with Hartigan’s paintings, highlighting the ongoing exchange between visual art and language.

Noontime Talk | Jude Marx: Storytelling, Imagination, and Transformation
Nov 14
Noontime Talk | Jude Marx: Storytelling, Imagination, and Transformation

Jude Marx will explore the power of storytelling through visual art and poetry to change how we see ourselves and the world. Jude draws from a decade of experience as an educator, as well as their lifelong creative practice as a poet and artist.

Drawing in the Galleries
Nov 14
Drawing in the Galleries

Visit the museum for drop-in drawing sessions in the galleries during Free Friday hours!  

Get creative! Join us every 2nd Friday for Drawing in the Galleries during Free Friday. We’ll provide the materials—you bring the inspiration! No experience needed, just drop in and sketch surrounded by art. 

PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Nashville (1975)
Nov 15
PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Nashville (1975)

160 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Robert Altman. In English. DCP.

This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. Nashville weaves the stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical.

Now More Than Ever: A Book Launch Celebration
Nov 16
Now More Than Ever: A Book Launch Celebration

Join us for a trifecta book launch celebrating three accomplished and award-winning Maine poets and their latest collections.

Ekphrastic Writing Workshop with the Trans Poetic Archive
Nov 20
Ekphrastic Writing Workshop with the Trans Poetic Archive

For this ekphrastic writing workshop, poets t love Smith and Jude Marx we’ll begin with an introduction to the history of ekphrasis—the practice of writing in response to visual art.

PMA Films: "Fall of '75": One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Nov 29
PMA Films: "Fall of '75": One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

138 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Miloš Forman. In English. DCP.

Forman’s iconic story of rebellion against the system, which swept the Academy Awards in 1976, screens as part of a series celebrating the great films of 1975.

PMA Films: "Fall of '75": One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Nov 30
PMA Films: "Fall of '75": One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

138 minutes. Rated R. Directed by Miloš Forman. In English. DCP.

Forman’s iconic story of rebellion against the system, which swept the Academy Awards in 1976, screens as part of a series celebrating the great films of 1975.

PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)
Dec 6
PMA Films: "Fall of '75": Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)

125 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Lino Brocka. In Filipino with English subtitles. DCP.

Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.

PMA Films: "Fall of '75": India Song (1975)
Dec 13
PMA Films: "Fall of '75": India Song (1975)

125 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Lino Brocka. In Filipino with English subtitles. DCP.

Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men—with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness.

 
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