This exhibition gives people a chance to appreciate Driskell’s personal artistic expression, and comes at a time when the community, country and world reflect on equity, representation and race.
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For almost 30 years, the Portland Museum of Art and the Maine Art Education Association (MAEA) have collaborated to bring National Youth Art Month to Maine. This annual exhibition showcases the incredible work produced by K-12 students throughout the state, and for the first time ever, YAM 2021 is digital, bringing exciting opportunities to share the artwork of Maine’s youth with a wider audience.
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The PMA’s new digital membership cards provide a more sustainable, convenient, and fast alternative to the traditional hard plastic member cards.
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In this activity, consider how Village of Monhegan, Maine by Emil Bisttram uses a limited color palette to create a mood and use this knowledge to create a collage using common materials found at home.
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Inspired by Ghetto Wall #2 by David Driskell, generate ideas with a poetry brainstorming activity and a visual symbolism exercise to create a found material mixed media collage that reflects your personal experiences.
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The Secret Life of Plants (1979)
Directed by Walon Green
The Scarlet Flower (1952)
Directed by Lev Atamanov
Vertigo (1958)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Especially after the Black Lives Matter protests this summer, this is exactly what museums should be doing: educating, filling in the historical blanks, recontextualizing, sparking curiosity and conversation.
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Please join Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Portland Museum of Art for ARTWORD 2021, a reading and celebration of the long, intimate relationship between poetry and visual art on Tuesday, April 13 at 7 p.m. & Wednesday, April 21 at 7 p.m.
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Looking at art can help us slow down, reflect, focus on the present, and connect. Using artwork to ground our mindfulness practice cultivates skills such as close looking and empathy, while also helping us to be more self-aware. During this digital session from March, PMA staff led a guided meditation centered on artwork in the PMA’s collection.
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The PMA is a proud member of the Maine Art Museum Trail and participant in this important series. Museums are at a moment of reckoning. Immense social, political, and financial pressure is testing the foundations of institutions, prompting examination of history, the need for change, and the process to acknowledge, repair, and heal.
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Learn how John Sundling creates his art-inspired floral arrangements for Art in Bloom.
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Looking at art can help us slow down, reflect, focus on the present, and connect. Using artwork to ground our mindfulness practice cultivates skills such as close looking and empathy, while also helping us to be more self-aware. During this digital session from February, PMA staff led a guided meditation centered on artwork in the PMA’s collection.
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Take a break in your day to slow down and enjoy the process of looking at art together. Join Christian Adame, Peggy L. Osher Director of Learning and Community Collaboration, for a virtual, guided, 30-minute session that took place in February.
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In a year in which a major pandemic disrupted exhibition calendars at museums throughout the world, it is also thanks to the generosity and flexibility of the Thon bequest that we were able to quickly pivot to a juried exhibition of artworks made in Maine in 2020.
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Evergreen Credit Union’s support of Free Fridays and the Susie Konkel Online Gallery has enabled the museum to offer a range of programs and events under our mission of Art for All, the PMA’s guiding principle and commitment to Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI).
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Take a break in your day to slow down and enjoy the process of looking at art together. Join Christian Adame, Peggy L. Osher Director of Learning and Community Collaboration, for a virtual, guided, 30-minute session that took place in January.
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Originally from Lewiston-Auburn, Ayumi Horie (born 1969) is a full-time studio potter in Portland. She is recognized in the field of craft for championing the aesthetics of kawaii (the culture of cuteness in Japan), for her online presence and videos, and her political activism. She co-founded The Democratic Cup, a political project that seeks to catalyze conversation through collaborative cups made by more than two dozen artists, and co-created Portland Brick, a collaborative public art project that repaired city sidewalks with bricks made from local clay stamped with past, contemporary, and future memories in the India Street neighborhood in Portland. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Art and Design. She is currently a trustee at the American Craft Council and the Vice President of the board at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She has received a Distinguished Fellow in Craft grant from United States Artists and was the first recipient of Ceramics Monthly’s Ceramic Artist of the Year award.
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Séan Alonzo Harris (born 1968) is a professional editorial, commercial, and fine art photographer concentrating on narrative and environmental portraiture. Over the past 25 years, his work has been featured in a range of national publications such as The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Mother Jones, as well as in advertising campaigns and exhibitions at venues such as the PMA and Colby College Museum of Art. In these varied contexts, his work focuses on human experience and identity and examines how individuals who are often overlooked in our communities visualize themselves and how they are portrayed. He was awarded a Kindling Fund grant from Space Gallery and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for his project Visual Tensions pairing people of color with members of law enforcement. He has received several awards and grants for his work including Good Idea Grant and Arts in the Capital Program, the Broderson Bronze Award, and the VanDerZee Black Heritage Award.
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