Inspired By The Everyday

From April 15, 2016 through July 9, 2016, The Workshop featured an installation titled Inspired by the Everyday.

It took its cue from artists throughout the museum who have transformed the objects and places they encounter into something extraordinary: Duncan Hewitt’s Forks or Porch Mattress in the summer 2016 exhibition Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange, Christopher Patch’s Migration in the ongoing installation Modern Menagerie, Leo J. Dee’s elegant Small Drapery Study in the spring 2016 exhibition Masterworks on Paper: Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art.

Visitors to The Workshop took an everyday occurrence—a coffee spill—and transformed it into a cat, a map, an abstract drawing, an interstellar scene, or whatever else their imagination inspired.