“To me, there’s the sense of an exposé — Kjartansson laying bare a suite of visual techniques designed to convince, to provoke, to arouse. It’s cold and calculating. It’s too perfect.”
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“It’s a great excuse to enjoy Portland without its summertime crowds, to eat exceptionally well in a place that Bon Appetit magazine named “The Restaurant City of the Year 2018” and to take in the work of this master. “
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“…the artist’s works remain enormously entertaining, and that’s reason enough to give them another look.”
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“The result is an exhibition of majestic proportions that offers a stunning and complicated portrait of the patriarch of America’s first family of Art.”
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Kjartansson received the prize for his presentation of The Boat, one of nine videos from the “Scenes from Western Culture”
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The PMA's flagship annual event, welcoming visionary cultural leaders, scholars, and thinkers to Maine.
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We transformed one of our most iconic landscape paintings, Winslow Homer’s Weatherbeaten, into a coloring book page, and asked visitors to test out the implications of color for themselves. Adults and children alike created almost 2,000 versions of this painting.
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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.
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Inspired by Christopher Patch’s Migration—on view in the Modern Menagerie installation—visitors created a flock of flying bird sculptures.
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Over the course of two months, visitors illustrated hundreds of pages from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, almost completing the entire epic.
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Hundreds of visitors selected a small detail from one of the painting which intrigued them and copied it onto a paper tile.
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Visitors spun a wheel for a challenge to create sculpture inspired by a select idea using hand-crafted, magnetic wooden blocks.
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From August 18 to December 3, 2017, The Workshop's Storytelling Objects crowdsourced writing and drawings in response to four everyday objects: an apple, a toy car, a seashell, and a mirror.
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From December 8, 2017 to March 11, 2018, This is Maine connected visitors to the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial as well as artwork throughout the galleries.
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Architecture invited visitors to take on an architectural design challenge: making their own museum.
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Objects in Space showed that Isamu Noguchi, like many artists, believed that sculpture had the ability to transform spaces.
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We believe that visitors of all ages should have the opportunity to exercise their creative minds through active participation and learning, and The Workshop is an open-ended space for to engage with the PMA through interactive exploration.
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Whether meeting a friend for coffee or enjoying an artisanal sandwich with your laptop and our free WiFi, the PMA Café offers the unique atmosphere of an art museum—and no admission is required to enjoy it.
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Support from the Council and Director’s Circle provides the freedom to explore new models, test the waters, and try new things.
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