PMA Magazine

Education

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  • Youth Art Month 2025

    February 28, 2024

    Youth Art Month at the Portland Museum of Art is an annual exhibition showcasing the...
  • Family Art Making: Driskell Collage + Mixed Media

    December 15, 2021

    Create a collage inspired by the artwork of David Driskell In response to the David Driskell:...
  • Limited Color Palette Collage

    May 5, 2021

    Best for Middle School students and above Lesson Plan written by Adrienne MungerInspired by Village of...
  • Symbolic Found Material Collage

    May 3, 2021

    Best for Middle School students and above Lesson Plan written by Anne HayesInspired by Ghetto Wall...
  • Tell Your Maine Story

    August 26, 2020

     What stories do you think are important to tell about Maine? There is no way to...
  • Juan Genoves: El Lugar y el Tiempo (The Place and the Time)

    August 20, 2020

    With Christian Adame, Peggy L. Osher Director of Learning and Interpretation, and Shalini Le Gall,...
  • Window Views

    May 21, 2020

    Best for ages 5 and up Several artists in the PMA’s collection depict windows in their...
  • Words of Comfort

    May 18, 2020

    Inspired by Robert Indiana’s 4‑Star LoveBest for ages 6 and up  Robert Indiana used words as...
  • Word Stack Sculpture with Books

    May 11, 2020

    Inspired by Justin Richel, Endless Column Justin Richel creates sculptures by stacking objects on top...
  • Make your own self portrait

    April 27, 2020

    Learn how to stage self-portraits at home and how artists have long used self-portraits as...