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This Month At Your Museum: May 2024
This Month At Your Museum: May 2024

This month presents the opening of Jeremy Frey: Woven, the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States.

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SHOP THE JEREMY FREY COLLECTION

From the only book on award-winning Indigenous basket maker Jeremy Frey to exclusive products developed alongside the artist, the PMA Store is your one-stop-shop to bring Woven home with you.

 

Open Hours

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Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
(Free admission 4–8 p.m.)
Saturday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

 

Programs and Events

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Programs & Events
Free Friday
Apr 26
Free Friday

We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.  

Collection Stories: A Talk with Chief Preparator Krik Hoffman
Apr 26
Collection Stories: A Talk with Chief Preparator Krik Hoffman

Join Kirk Hoffman, Chief Preparator, for an in-gallery tour about collection care of permanent collection artwork.

ASL Spotlight Discussion With Meli Stamp
Apr 27
ASL Spotlight Discussion With Meli Stamp

Join us on the Third Floor for a guided discussion led in American Sign Language by Meli Stamp!. Closed Voice interpreting also provided.

Plant Maine’s Future with chickadeeds and Living Lands and Waters
Apr 28
Plant Maine’s Future with chickadeeds and Living Lands and Waters

Together we’ll plant 500 trees in Maine as part of Living Lands & Waters’ national Two Million Trees project. chickadeeds will be distributing trees from the front plaza of the museum!

Portland Press Herald presents: Like A Boss with PMA Director Mark Bessire
May 1
Portland Press Herald presents: Like A Boss with PMA Director Mark Bessire

Join Mark Bessire, Director of the Portland Museum of Art, as he sits down with Portland Press Herald CEO Lisa DeSisto for a conversation about leadership, Portland, and our business and cultural community.

Free Friday
May 3
Free Friday

We’re free each and every Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. with concerts, special events, activities, and more.  

Access for All on Third Thursday
May 16
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

Director’s Circle and Contemporaries Council Opening Reception
May 22
Director’s Circle and Contemporaries Council Opening Reception

Director’s Circle and Contemporaries Council Opening Reception for Jeremy Frey: Woven.

Jeremy Frey: Woven Members Preview Day
May 23
Jeremy Frey: Woven Members Preview Day

A preview of Jeremy Frey: Woven just for our members.

Mornings at the Museum
May 29
Mornings at the Museum

Business Partners, start your morning with a little coffee, networking, and Jeremy Frey: Woven

Educator Open House: Jeremy Frey: Woven
May 30
Educator Open House: Jeremy Frey: Woven

Enjoy an evening exploring the galleries, taking in Jeremy Frey: Woven, and connecting with colleagues and PMA Learning & Community Collaboration staff. 

Collection Stories: Director of Collections and Head Registrar, Erin Damon
May 31
Collection Stories: Director of Collections and Head Registrar, Erin Damon

Join Erin Damon, Director of Collections and Head Registrar, for an in-gallery tour about collection care of artwork seen in Jeremy Frey: Woven.

Access for All on Third Thursday
Jun 20
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

Access for All on Third Thursday
Jul 18
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

Family Day
Aug 10
Family Day

Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.

Access for All on Third Thursday
Aug 15
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

Access for All on Third Thursday
Sep 19
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

Family Day
Sep 28
Family Day

Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.

Access for All on Third Thursday
Oct 17
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

Family Day
Oct 19
Family Day

Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.

Family Day
Nov 9
Family Day

Engage in art-making activities with local artists, explore the galleries, and connect with others.

Access for All on Third Thursday
Nov 21
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

Access for All on Third Thursday
Dec 19
Access for All on Third Thursday

Visit the museum for free all day with an ever-changing monthly party.

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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
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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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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Portland Press Herald: Indie Film - Making coming-of-age story ‘Light Attaching to a Girl’ was a family affair
Portland Press Herald: Indie Film - Making coming-of-age story ‘Light Attaching to a Girl’ was a family affair

With a nod toward the Portland Museum of Art’s lasting influence on producer [Karlina] Lyons, the film is coming to Portland as part of a 10-city U.S. tour.

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Portland Press Herald: 5 works of art worthy of your appreciation
Portland Press Herald: 5 works of art worthy of your appreciation

One of Homer’s greatest works (if not one of the finest American landscape paintings of the 19th century), “Weatherbeaten” powerfully captures the fearsome beauty of coastal Maine.

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Commentary: Mass timber makes sense for new building in Maine
Commentary: Mass timber makes sense for new building in Maine

The time is now to incentivize mass timber as a go-to building material to maximize long-lasting and positive outcomes for our economies and environment.

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News Center Maine: Exhibit focuses on Maine's Indigenous history at Portland Museum of Art
News Center Maine: Exhibit focuses on Maine's Indigenous history at Portland Museum of Art

The PMA’s Assistant Curator of American Art, Ramey Mize, spoke with News Center Maine about Passages in American Art.

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Portland Press Herald: Our Sustainable City – Sustainability in the arts
Portland Press Herald: Our Sustainable City – Sustainability in the arts

The PMA knows that art has a way of activating communities around social change and is hosting exhibitions […] examining the growing interconnectivity of major port cities, cultures, histories, and more.

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Portland Press Herald: 5 things you've never seen before at the Portland Museum of Art
Portland Press Herald: 5 things you've never seen before at the Portland Museum of Art

“Art takes so many different forms,” said Mize. “It’s not just a painting on a wall. That’s a big takeaway of this project.”

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Portland Press Herald: Portland Museum of Art brings items out of storage and up to date
Portland Press Herald: Portland Museum of Art brings items out of storage and up to date

An advisory committee shaped the project around three major themes – Maine’s role in transatlantic slavery, environmental change and the ongoing presence of Wabanaki and other Indigenous nations throughout North America. The resulting exhibit includes items that visitors will see for the first time and familiar works that will be framed in new ways.

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Architectural Record: Projects from Around the World Demonstrate Diverse Approaches to Building with Wood
Architectural Record: Projects from Around the World Demonstrate Diverse Approaches to Building with Wood

LEVER Architecture, noted for its pioneering embrace of mass-timber construction, is making its mark on the other Portland—the similarly forest-flanked one in Maine—with a $100 million revamp of that city’s most venerable public art institution.

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Portland Press Herald Art Review: One photo shows captures range of emotions, another raises questions
Portland Press Herald Art Review: One photo shows captures range of emotions, another raises questions

“Outside the Frame” makes plain how photography initiated as pure documentation can transmute into political commentary and critique when viewed through the lens of our contemporary consciousness.

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Portland Press Herald: See where some of Maine’s most famous artists worked
Portland Press Herald: See where some of Maine’s most famous artists worked

Visitors get a newly minted field guide with information about Homer, his works, a chronology of his life, a family tree, notes on the area’s geology and local flora and fauna, and so on.

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Boston Globe: 10 museum shows you’ll want to wander this summer
Boston Globe: 10 museum shows you’ll want to wander this summer

With this complete reinstallation of its permanent collection, the Portland Museum of Art enters the expanding fray of American art museums interrogating their own historical collecting practices with a critical eye.

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Portland Press Herald: The must-see art exhibitions at Maine museums this year
Portland Press Herald: The must-see art exhibitions at Maine museums this year

Fill your summer with art by taking in these 16 shows at museums from Ogunquit to Rockland.

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Check out Susie Konkel Family Gallery online, featuring masterpieces by kids, teens, and young adults, and then add your own work to the collection!

PMA Picks

FAVORITES FROM THE COLLECTION, PMA MAGAZINE, & MORE.

PMA Magazine
PMA Films: Filmmaker Ian Cheney shows us The Arc of Oblivion, plus Edward Yang's masterful final film and a brash comedy about the modern economy
PMA Films: Filmmaker Ian Cheney shows us The Arc of Oblivion, plus Edward Yang's masterful final film and a brash comedy about the modern economy

Check out what’s new in PMA Films!

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PMA Films: An enchanting tomb-raider caper, more Edward Yang, a Tarkovsky restoration, and an urgent documentary about sea-level rise
PMA Films: An enchanting tomb-raider caper, more Edward Yang, a Tarkovsky restoration, and an urgent documentary about sea-level rise

Check out what’s new in PMA Films!

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PMA Films: A riveting Oscar nominated drama, the cult sensation Hundreds of Beavers, and special events galore
PMA Films: A riveting Oscar nominated drama, the cult sensation Hundreds of Beavers, and special events galore

Check out what’s new in PMA Films!

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DIGITAL MEMBERSHIP INCOMING
DIGITAL MEMBERSHIP INCOMING

Your digital membership card is here!

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PMA Films: Wim Wenders's study of artist Anselm Kiefer and Midsommar for Art in Bloom
PMA Films: Wim Wenders's study of artist Anselm Kiefer and Midsommar for Art in Bloom

Check out what’s new in PMA Films!

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This Month At Your Museum: March 2024

Each year, thousands of people come to the museum to experience breathtaking floral designs—all inspired by artworks in the PMA collection, btw—and take part in a wide array of special, springtime programming. Be sure to visit Wednesday, March 20 through Sunday, March 24, and don’t miss some of these highlights!

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Programs & Events
PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion
Apr 26
PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion

98 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ian Cheney. In English. DCP.

The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Director Ian Cheney will be in attendance to discuss the film at our Sunday, April 28 screening.

PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion
Apr 26
PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion

98 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ian Cheney. In English. DCP.

The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Director Ian Cheney will be in attendance to discuss the film at our Sunday, April 28 screening.

PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion
Apr 27
PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion

98 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ian Cheney. In English. DCP.

The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Director Ian Cheney will be in attendance to discuss the film at our Sunday, April 28 screening.

PMA Films: "Edward Yang's City Symphonies": Yi Yi (2000)
Apr 27
PMA Films: "Edward Yang's City Symphonies": Yi Yi (2000)

173 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Edward Yang. In Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, and English with English subtitles. DCP.

Edward Yang’s final masterpiece follows a middle-class Taipei family over the course of one year. Widely considered one of the best films of the 21st century, Yi Yi placed in the top 100 greatest films of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 critics’ poll.

PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion (with filmmaker Ian Cheney)
Apr 28
PMA Films: The Arc of Oblivion (with filmmaker Ian Cheney)

98 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ian Cheney. In English. DCP.

The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Director Ian Cheney will be in attendance to discuss the film at our Sunday, April 28 screening.

PMA Films: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
May 3
PMA Films: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

164 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Radu Jude. In Romanian and English with English subtitles. DCP.

Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) confirms his status as the Godard of the modern era with this brash, rigorous, and masterful Romanian comedy, which follows an exhausted production assistant through a day of spirit-crushing work and prankish online posting.

PMA Films: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
May 4
PMA Films: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

164 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Radu Jude. In Romanian and English with English subtitles. DCP.

Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) confirms his status as the Godard of the modern era with this brash, rigorous, and masterful Romanian comedy, which follows an exhausted production assistant through a day of spirit-crushing work and prankish online posting.

PMA Films: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
May 4
PMA Films: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

164 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Radu Jude. In Romanian and English with English subtitles. DCP.

Director Radu Jude (Aferim!) confirms his status as the Godard of the modern era with this brash, rigorous, and masterful Romanian comedy, which follows an exhausted production assistant through a day of spirit-crushing work and prankish online posting.

PMA Films: The Old Oak
May 11
PMA Films: The Old Oak

113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.

The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.

PMA Films: The Old Oak
May 11
PMA Films: The Old Oak

113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.

The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.

PMA Films: The Old Oak
May 12
PMA Films: The Old Oak

113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.

The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.

PMA Films: The Old Oak
May 12
PMA Films: The Old Oak

113 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Ken Loach. In English and Arabic with English subtitles. DCP.

The final film by Britain’s bard of the working class, Ken Loach (Kes) is a complex and touching tale of hope and resentment about the arrival of Syrian refugees to an English mining village.

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