In April, Pochurek’s sculpture “Flora Lung” was chosen for an inaugural Tidal Shift Award by the Portland Museum of Art. The award was created to encourage young artists to explore the theme of climate change in their work.
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The Portland Museum of Art is a postmodernist landmark on the city’s Congress Square. The museum is now planning an even more dramatic architectural landmark that may upstage the handsome brick façade with its signature quartet of arches.
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With 150 pictures by 70 photographers, this exhibition is the first showcase of a trove of 600 notable photographs from the collection of Judith Glickman Lauder given to the museum in January.
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The project aims to unify the museum’s downtown Portland, Maine campus through the design of a new building at 142 Free Street.
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The PMA recently acquired artwork by Teresa Baker, one of Artnet’s “can’t miss” artists at Art Basel Miami Beach this year. Read more about the artist here!
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Four finalist concept designs were just unveiled by the Portland Museum of Art for a planned expansion of the institution set to be completed by 2026 in the thriving New England cultural capital.
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The museum has now outgrown its current home, both in terms of visitor demand and its need for storage and exhibition space.
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The museum is now soliciting public feedback on the designs—which include proposals from groups including Adjaye Associates and MVRDV—through 11 December
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The project includes a 60,000 square feet expansion in the form of a six or seven-story structure planned to accommodate an increase in the number of visits and a growing collection of art.
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The museum has outgrown its downtown campus due to an increase in visitors and major gifts to its collection, museum officials say.
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The winning design will be announced in January.
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"Right now, because of our growth, the real risk is not to build," Director Mark Bessire explained. "If museums don’t continue to grow, if you fall back, it can take a generation to recover."
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"The vision is more conceptual in that we want to be the center of the arts of our community. We want to be green, and we want to be sure everyone feels like it's their museum,” Bessire said.
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While at first glance the design proposals are visually quite different, they each promote similar themes, use sustainable materials, and wholeheartedly embrace unifying the campus buildings and the surrounding streetscape.
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Each of the four designs unveiled Friday depicts a large, contemporary and architecturally striking building that would be constructed on that site adjacent to what is known as the Payson building.
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It’s one thing to look at pictures when they’re in front of you. It’s quite another to have them stay in your mind’s eye.
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The PMA’s show, “The Draftsman in Society: German Expressionist Prints,” on view through December 11, features German artists in the early 20th century who worked in a period of social and political crisis marked by military conflict, shifting social class dynamics and economic upheaval.
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On gifting her photography collection to the PMA, Glickman Lauder says, “It was where I wanted it to belong.”
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“The concept we’re working on is trying to put creativity on display and making the program more visible, making people the center of the building,” said Mark Bessire, the museum’s director. “Because of Covid and the social justice movement, our community was like, ‘Let’s turn the museum inside out.’”
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On November 18, the Portland Museum of Art will host a free community event to welcome the four finalist architect-led design teams and their visions for the future of the PMA and Portland, Maine.
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