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Boston Globe: In a solo show at the Portland Museum of Art, Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey transforms an ancient tradition
Boston Globe: In a solo show at the Portland Museum of Art, Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey transforms an ancient tradition

Frey’s baskets, frankly, astonish.

New York Times: Baskets Holding the Identity of an Indigenous People
New York Times: Baskets Holding the Identity of an Indigenous People

The baskets of Jeremy Frey from the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine have caught the attention of the art world.

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Portland Museum of Art's seventh annual 'Art in Bloom' takes place this week
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'Art in Bloom' exhibit at Portland Museum of Art
Portland Press Herald: See these new acquisitions by Portland Museum of Art, before they go back into storage
Portland Press Herald: See these new acquisitions by Portland Museum of Art, before they go back into storage

The museum has a collection of 19,000 objects and counting, and only a fraction are on display at any given time. We look at how these pieces get to the museum and where they go when they're not on display.

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207: This Maine museum owns thousands of works of art—and only a fraction of them are on display
Boston Spirit Magazine: Portland Museum of Art’s ‘+ collection’ expands narrative about curation and exhibition process
Boston Spirit Magazine: Portland Museum of Art’s ‘+ collection’ expands narrative about curation and exhibition process

Portland Museum of Art’s ‘+ collection’ expands narrative about curation and exhibition process.

Portland Press Herald: Art review: Historic photos from Caribbean paired with contemporary art of the diaspora
Portland Press Herald: Art review: Historic photos from Caribbean paired with contemporary art of the diaspora

[Fragments of Epic Memory is] a celebration of kaleidoscopic talent and – with its companion display of 19th-century photography – extraordinary resilience.

Portland Press Herald: Our View: Portland Museum of Art plan deserves to proceed
Portland Press Herald: Our View: Portland Museum of Art plan deserves to proceed

The city received 2,000 responses from the public during an uncommonly collaborative selection process. Much has been made of the selected plan’s homage to the Wabanaki and of its use of “mass timber,” an environmentally friendly category of wood product that the museum wants to source here in Maine.

Boston Globe: The fine art of remaking a collection
Boston Globe: The fine art of remaking a collection

“This is a big shift,” said Shalini Le Gall, the museum’s chief curator. “I’m an art historian, but art history is not the only way to access art in a museum. We want to show people that art by its nature is not stable, and the scope of interpretation will always be changing.”

News Center Maine: A Trip to Winslow Homer's home is a treat – even if he didn't like visitors
News Center Maine: A Trip to Winslow Homer's home is a treat – even if he didn't like visitors

Tours begin at the Portland Museum of Art, where patrons can look at some of Homer’s paintings. Then a shuttle bus whisks visitors to Prout’s Neck to take in the studio and the yard that slopes down to the ocean. It is a step back in time to a place that feels surprisingly relatable.

Boston Art Review: Elizabeth Colomba’s “Mythologies” Reclaims Whitewashed Narratives
Boston Art Review: Elizabeth Colomba’s “Mythologies” Reclaims Whitewashed Narratives

When the French-born, Harlem-based artist Elizabeth Colomba starts an oil painting, she does so like the masters.

Musée Magazine: Drawn to the Light
Musée Magazine: Drawn to the Light

The show reveals the untold stories of stewards and students, the shadowed innovation, and the profound impact a small school in Rockport, Maine has had on photography. 

DownEast Magazine: Sharp Images From 50 Years of Maine Media Workshops
DownEast Magazine: Sharp Images From 50 Years of Maine Media Workshops

A Portland Museum of Art exhibit takes a snapshot of a half-century of boundary-blurring photo workshops in Rockport.

Portland Press Herald: Replicas of famous paintings mark trails at Maine state parks
Portland Press Herald: Replicas of famous paintings mark trails at Maine state parks

The Portland Museum of Art has expanded a program that showcases its collection to people enjoying the outdoors.

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Portland Phoenix: Art Seen: Photo fest at Bowdoin College and the Portland Museum of Art

Taken together, “Drawn to the Light” and “People Watching” provide an insightful selection of fine art photographs and make the point that Maine holds a significant place in contemporary photography.

News Center Maine: Portland Museum of Art launches 'Art Outside and on the Trail'
News Center Maine: Portland Museum of Art launches 'Art Outside and on the Trail'

The PMA has placed more than two dozen replicas of its collection outdoors. Most of the original pieces can be seen inside the walls of the museum, and this project is a way for Mainers and tourists to enjoy some of the art the museum has to offer as they walk, run, jog, and enjoy the great outdoors.

Bangor Daily News: Maine museums are overflowing with world-class photography exhibits
Bangor Daily News: Maine museums are overflowing with world-class photography exhibits

By bringing out the big guns, the show seeks to attract a wide audience, of course, but also show the outsized, cross-pollinating impact the little Maine school has had on the photographic world over the years. 

Boston Globe Review: In Portland, celebrating a neighbor’s 50th anniversary
Boston Globe Review: In Portland, celebrating a neighbor’s 50th anniversary

The show includes almost 100 photographs from nearly 80 photographers, as well as a selection of Workshops-related publications.

Portland Press Herald Art review: Portland, Ogunquit museums give collections contemporary context
Portland Press Herald Art review: Portland, Ogunquit museums give collections contemporary context

It’s a show where labels really matter because they give new, contemporary context with which to consider the works on view. They really push us to think in new ways about who gets to write the history of art in America, who was left out of it and how that is – thankfully – changing.

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