The Portland Museum of Art is proud to announce the hire of Ramey Mize as the museum’s Assistant Curator of American Art. Mize will begin her role at the PMA in March, and immediately support the museum’s Art for All mission to provide a strong artistic vision that drives conversation, creativity, cultural vitality, and economic impact.
Read MoreCurator Jaime DeSimone shares her favorite North Atlantic books, television shows, and podcasts that bring her across the Atlantic Ocean.
Read MoreDiscover more about our recent acquisition to the PMA collection, "Are You Happy" by Eleanor Kipping.
Read MoreTo help introduce you to Triennial curator Anders Jansson at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden, we asked about his interests and insights on the upcoming exhibition.
Read MoreFeaturing both emerging and more established artists living today, the exhibition presents 21st-century art from an unprecedented cross-section of artists living in Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark as well as Indigenous Nations throughout the region.
Read More“For me, this [photography] collection is all about humanity. It’s that full spectrum of the human experience . . . and to me that has always been the beauty of this medium.” –Judy Glickman Lauder
Read MoreLooking at art can help us slow down, focus on the present, and connect. Watch recordings of our Midday Mindfulness programs whenever you need a moment of reflection.
Read MoreThe Portland Museum of Art (PMA) is proud to announce that Judy Glickman Lauder—photographer, collector, humanitarian, advocate, philanthropist, and community builder—has made a monumental gift of more than 600 works of art to the museum through a Promised Gift, immediately transforming and cementing the PMA as an international destination for photography.
Read MoreGlickman Lauder’s gift enables the museum to think broadly about the next chapter of PMA history, specifically about how we can create open experiences with art, grow and diversify our collection, and open new and dynamic community-centered spaces that welcome our myriad communities.
Read MoreDiscover more about our recent acquisition to the PMA collection, "The Finishing Line (Au But)" by Alfred Boucher.
Read MoreAs we say farewell to Clifford Ross: Sightlines, we share some of the #PMASightlines visitor selfies posted online during the run of the exhibition and how the PMA has taken steps to promote sustainability. Thank you to our partners at Evergreen Credit Union for supporting sustainability efforts at the PMA by donating $10 to our sustainability initiative for every tagged post.
Read MoreTriennial curator Markús Þór Andrésson at Reykjavík Art Museum shares a day in his life in Iceland. He also tells us about a few of his favorite Icelandic nature webcams to explore online—and you can too!
Read MoreIn response to the collages featured in the David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History exhibition, artist Rachel Gloria Adams designed an all-ages art-making activity for home or anywhere you like to create.
Read MoreThick froth at a wave’s lip dissembles into airborne droplets, each one bizarrely crisp; heavy, cascading walls of water appear as though carved with ridges, flash-frozen in place. They’re so real as to be unreal, which, I think is the point.
Read MoreWe can’t help but wonder what happened the second after Ross snapped these images. Was he engulfed by the waves? Knocked down and pulled into the violent surf?. . . All this points to the extraordinarily visceral quality of these wave images.
Read MoreSave 20% on PMA Store and PMA Café purchases, plus take advantage of a special gift membership promotion, during Member Appreciation Weekends, happening November 26-28 and December 3-5, 2021!
Read More“After years of planning, fundraising, and fabricating, we are thrilled to upgrade the [front] doors to be accessible and user friendly for our visitors.” —Mike Brown, Director of Campus Sustainability
Read More“The best thing we can do is empower young people so they can make change. Art brings people together, and artists are really good about envisioning the future but also really good at seeing the moment in a way that we don’t see for a few years.” —Mark Bessire, Judy and Leonard Lauder Director
Read MoreThis three-part discussion series for K-12 educators will explore the images and diverse social issues documented by Walker Evans and how they relate to contemporary challenges. Educators will be paired with representatives from community organizations to form new connections and conversations around several topics ranging from social change, immigration, and trauma and resilience.
Read MoreThe museum is hosting three exhibitions that directly reflect their subjects: Clifford Ross: Sightlines, Walker Evans American Photographs and Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes,… But the brilliance of all this work is that it allows the viewer room for interpretation. There is no mistaking what these images are. What they mean is the mystery and reward of experiencing art in person.
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