Portland High School Digital Exhibition 2025
Portland High School
Digital Exhibition 2025
Advanced Art – Spring 2025 | The Unseen: Revealing Hidden Truth(s)
The Spring Advanced Art class at Portland High School explored the theme of “The Unseen”, where each student chose a hidden truth that they felt was important to communicate through visual art. The partnership began with students visiting the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) galleries and finding an artwork that they thought had a “hidden truth”. Students closely observed their chosen artwork and examined how the artist might have been uncovering something, keeping it hidden, or a little bit of both. As a group in class, we learned about the art practices of many artists whose work intersects this theme, including PMA Collection Artists Jeffrey Gibson and LaToya Ruby Frazier. Then, students identified a hidden truth they wanted to uncover through an art exploration and created their own unique artworks.
Since 2019, the Portland Public Schools (PPS) and Portland Museum of Art (PMA) Partnership Program has aimed to build connections, resources, and collaborations with the PPS district. These partnerships focus on student needs and interests, and are developed in collaboration with educators. We hope that partnerships such as these help to amplify the power of art and artmaking, along with the incredible arts education work being done in our local communities.
For more information about school programs and partnerships at the PMA, please visit our Learn page, or email Meghan Quigley Graham mquigley@portlandmuseum.org
Student and teacher programming at the PMA is made possible by the Beatrice Gilmore Endowment for Museum Education, the Charles A. Came Educational Fund, the Katherine K. Monks Education Fund, the Madelyn Busker Cohen Endowment Fund, the Sam L. Cohen Foundation, the Sibley-Saltonstall Charitable Foundation, the Rachel F. Armstrong Fund, the Peggy L. Osher Learning and Interpretation Endowment, and Unum. Supported in part by a grant from the Onion Foundation.