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  • Staff Favorite: Ashleigh Hill on James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s “Miss Florence Leyland”

    January 5, 2021

    When I started at the PMA three years ago, this James Abbott McNeill Whistler work...
  • Indigenous culture in the works of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington

    December 24, 2020

    Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington both depicted Indigenous people in their work in varying capacities....
  • A Conversation with Curators: “Freedom, A Fable”

    December 19, 2020

    Hear from all three curators at the PMA for a live conversation about the new...
  • “Vida Americana” with Whitney Museum curator, Barbara Haskell

    December 11, 2020

    In this virtual conversation for the PMA, Barbara Haskell, long-time curator at the Whitney Museum of...
  • Time and Space to Create: Monson Arts and Maine’s North Woods

    October 30, 2020

    In this virtual program from October, Monson Arts’ senior advisor Stuart Kestenbaum and Portland-based artists Tessa O’Brien and...
  • Fly-Tying with Selene of Maine

    September 14, 2020

    There are many different stories represented in the exhibition Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History...
  • Welcome to our new Chief Curator, Shalini Le Gall

    September 9, 2020

    When I joined the Portland Museum of Art earlier this year, I never imagined that...
  • Clifford Ross: Hurricane LXVIII

    September 4, 2020

    In 2016, photographer Clifford Ross came to the Portland Museum of Art to deliver the Photo Fund...
  • A parting letter from Jessica May

    September 3, 2020

    This September, Deputy Director and Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic Chief Curator Jessica May leaves the...
  • Will Barnet as a Teacher

    August 24, 2020

    by Diana Greenwold, Curator of American Art, with contributions from Will Porta and Brett Bigbee  Museum...